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Art Song Collection - Anniversary Series / Beethoven, Britten, Gurney, Hawes, Poulenc, et al.

1 CD / Signum UK / 2012-11-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble, song for tenor, piano & string quartet (or tenor & orchestra); Ludwig van Beethoven: Sechs Gesänge mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, O...
Performers: Ainsley, John Mark; Asti, Eugene; Bickley, Susan; Burnside, Iain [Piano]; Connolly, Sarah [Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)]; Crawford-Phillips, Simon; Evans, Rebecca; Filsell, Jeremy [Keyboard]; Glynn, Christo...
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Ensemble: Dante Quartet

2012 marks the 15th anniversary of the first release from the leading independent classical label Signum Records. Beginning life as an early music specialist (with...continue...

20th Century Classics: Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-08-10

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Wasps; The lark ascending; Flos campi; Variants (5) of 'Dives and Lazarus'; Norfolk Rhapsody no 1 in E mino...
Performers: Angas, Richard; Armstrong, Sheila [Soprano Vocal]; Balmer, Christopher; Bowen, Kenneth; Burrowes, Norma; Case, John Carol; Chang, Sarah; Dickerson, Bernard; Evans, Wynford; Hayward, Marie; Keyte, Chr...
Conductors: Barbirolli, John; Handley, Vernon; Haitink, Bernard; Willcocks, David; Boult, Adrian;
Ensemble: ; London Early Music Group

The Essential Vaughan Williams / Willcocks, Boult, Bean, Barbirolli, et al

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-06-24

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The lark ascending; Linden Lea; Fantasia on Greensleeves; House of life; English Folk Song Suite; The Vagabond ("Give to me the life I love"), song for voice & piano (or orche...
Performers: Angas, Richard; Armstrong, Sheila [Soprano Vocal]; Asch, David van; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Bayl, Benjamin; Bean, Hugh; Bostridge, Ian; Bowen, Kenneth; Burrowes, Norma; Case, John C...
Conductors: Boult, Adrian; Barbirolli, John; ; Marriner, Sir Neville; Willcocks, David; Bishop, Christopher; Neary, Martin; Moore, Philip; Ledger, Philip, Sir; Cleobury, Stephen
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; King's College Choir, Cambridge; London Music Group; London Symphony Orchestra; The Wallace Collection; Winchester Cathedral Choir; York Minster Choir

This essential collection presents 30 Vaughan Williams favorites on 2 CDs. It includes such classic recordings as 'The Lark Ascending' with Hugh Bean, the 'Tallis...continue...

English Song / Langridge, Lott, Keenleyside, et al

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-03-22

Works: Charles Villiers Stanford: A Soft Day, for voice & piano; A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster, for voice & piano, no 6, "Irish Skies" Op. 140/6; Liza Lehmann: Cherry Ripe (arr. of aria by Chas. Ed. Horn);...
Performers: Asti, Eugene; Bedford, Steuart; Constable, John [Keyboards]; Davies, Neal [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Edgar-Wilson, Richard; Greevy, Bernadette [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Gritton, Susan; Hancock-Child, Nik; H...
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Ensemble: Duke Quartet

England boasts a long and distinctive tradition of song, equaled to that of any region in the world. This anthology offers a recent survey ranging...continue...

British Music - Green & Pleasant Land

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-11-01

Works: E.J. Moeran: Symphony in G minor, R. 71; Gerald Finzi: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, for unaccompanied chorus, Op. 17; Arthur Somervell: The Shropshire Lad, song cycle; Frederick Delius: Aquarelles ...
Performers: Cox, Michael; Daniel, Nicholas; Farrington, Iain; Johnson, Graham [Piano]; Maltman, Christopher; Rolfe Johnson, Anthony [Tenor Vocal]; Whitton, Christopher
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David; Robinson, Christopher; ; Penny, Andrew
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Dublin RTE Concert Orchestra; Duke Quartet; English Northern Philharmonia; Maggini Quartet; Northern Sinfonia; Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Ro...

A delightful selection of English music with a pastoral theme featuring several individual tracks from award winning discs in the British Music series. Performed by...continue...