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Classics - Wagner, Strauss / Richard Hickox, Jard van Nes, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-06-21

Works: Richard Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos; Duet-Concertino for clarinet, bassoon, harp & strings, o.Op. 147 (TrV 293, AV 147); Richard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder; Siegfried Idyll
Performers: Hatfield, Lesley; Nes, Jard van; Plane, Robert; Reay, Stephen; Rhys, Christina
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Northern Sinfonia Chorus

These titles were conferred by the conductor Hands von Bulow, who said that after Wagner there could be no Richard the Second. There is no...continue...

Vaughan Williams: Symphonies no 6 & 8, Nocturne / Hickox

1 Super Audio CD / Chandos Records / 2003-09-23

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 6 in E minor; Nocturne (Whispers of Heavenly Death), for baritone & orchestra; Symphony no 8 in D minor
Performers: Williams, Robert
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Vaughan Williams: Symphonies no 6 & 8, Nocturne / Hickox

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-09-23

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 6 in E minor; Nocturne (Whispers of Heavenly Death), for baritone & orchestra; Symphony no 8 in D minor
Performers: Williams, Robert
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

"These two symphonies make a complementary pair, the Sixth a dark work with thoughts of war and its aftermath, the Eighth a radiant celebration of...continue...

Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits, etc / Hickox, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1998-02-17

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Tudor Portraits (5), choral suite for soloists, chorus & orchestra; Variants (5) of 'Dives and Lazarus'
Performers: Bourton, Robert; Cox, Michael; Hugh, Timothy; Rigby, Jean; Shirley-Quirk, John
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra

"...[Vaughan Williams's] 'Five Tudor Portraits' find the composer at his most dazzlingly invnetive, the resourceful and witty writing fitting Skeleton's words like a glove...The coupling...continue...