Ralph Vaughan Williams conducts his own Music

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Album Summary

Performers

• Roy Henderson (Baritone)
• Renée Flynn

Conductor

• Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Ensembles

• BBC Symphony Orchestra
• London Philharmonic Orchestra

Composer

• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)

Notes & Reviews:

Those who have loved this British composer's music have known his only commercial recordings - The Wasps Overture and the Ballet 'Old King Cole' (1925) and his extraordinary 1937 HMV discs of the Symphony No. 4 - as definitive. But thanks to the efforts, more than half a century ago, of a recording engineer named Eric Spain, whose custom-built recorder took down this 1952 performance of the Symphony No. 5, we can hear what one critic has described as "the best performance of any Vaughan Williams Symphony."

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Works Details

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Symphony no 5 in D major

• Conductor: Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Running Time: 37 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1938-1943
• Studio/Live: Live

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Dona nobis pacem

• Performers: Renée Flynn; Roy Henderson (Baritone)
• Conductor: Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 34 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1936
• Studio/Live: Live