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Vaughan Williams: Archive - 5 Tudor Portraits; On Wenlock Edge; Merciless Beauty. Bonus CD: Vaughan Williams talks about Bach

2 CD / Albion / 2012-07-10

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge, song cycle for tenor, piano & string quartet (or tenor & orchestra); Merciless beauty; Prelude on 3 Welsh Hymn Tunes, for brass band; Tudor Portraits (5), cho...
Performers: Anderson, Robert B.; Rankin, Nell; Watson, Gordon; Young, Alexander [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Adams, Bernard; Steinberg, William

Albion presents a special collection of archive recordings featuring the words and music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. On Wenlock Edge features tenor Alexander Young accompanied...continue...

Vaughan Williams - The Collector's Edition / Willcocks, Boult, Bean, Barbirolli, et al

30 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 1 "A sea symphony"; A London Symphony (Symphony no 2) (Original 1913 version); Symphony no 8 in D minor; Symphony no 3 for soprano or tenor & orchestra ("Pastoral"...
Performers: Adler, Larry; Allen, Thomas; Angas, Richard; Armstrong, Sheila [Soprano Vocal]; Aronowitz, Cecil; Asch, David van; Bainbridge, Elisabeth; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Balmain, Ian; Barlo...
Conductors: Handley, Vernon; Boult, Adrian; Silvestri, Constantin; Banks, Eric; Groves, Charles, Sir; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Barbirolli, John; Hickox, Richard; O'Brien, Brendan; Davies, Meredith; Willcocks, Davi...
Ensemble: ; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; King's College Choir, Cambridge; London Madrigal Singers; London Music Group; London Philharmonic Orch...

This 30-CD budget boxed set contains all of the hits, as well as other gems such as 'A Sea Symphony', 'Fantasia on Christmas Carols', 'On...continue...

Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits, Five Mystical Songs

1 CD / Hyperion / 1999-06-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Mystical Songs (5) for baritone, chorus ad lib & orchestra (or organ); Tudor Portraits (5), choral suite for soloists, chorus & orchestra
Performers: Herford, Henry; Walker, Sarah
Conductors: Wetton, Hilary Davan
Ensemble: Guildford Choral Society; Philharmonia Orchestra

'An incredible bargain. Altogether, this sumptuously remastered issue is definitely one of the highlights of the first batch of Helios reissues that promise to take...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...