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Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works
from: British Composers

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0077776402222
Label: British Composers
Manufacturer: British Composers
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: British Composers
Release Date: September 09, 1991
Running Time: 66 minutes
Studio: British Composers
Sales Rank: 148
MPN: 64022

Disc 1:
  1. Serenade To Music
  2. English Folk Song Suite: I. March (Seventeen Come Sunday)
  3. English Folk Song Suite: II. Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy)
  4. English Folk Song Suite: III. March (Folk Songs From Somerset)
  5. Norfolk Rhapsody No.1
  6. Fantasia On 'Greensleeves'
  7. In The Fen Country
  8. The Lark Ascending
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - THE BEST RECORDING EVER OF 'THE LARK'
I JUST WANT TO AGREE WITH EVERY WORD THAT MR JORDAN HAD SAID ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR RECORDING, NOT JUST OF 'THE LARK', BUT OF SERENADE TO MUSIC ALSO. IN FACT I JUST LOVE EVERYTHING ON THIS ALBUM! I BOUGHT MY VINYL COPY IN THE EARLY 70'S AND IT IS NOW SO WORN OUT THAT I DECIDED TO LOOK TO SEE IF A CD WAS AVAILABLE. WHAT JOY! NOT ONLY HAVE I BEEN ABLE TO FIND A CD OF MY TREASURED RECORDING, BUT WITH BONUS TRACKS, AND AT AN INCREDIBLY LOW PRICE. FOR ME THIS IS THE PURCHASE OF THE MONTH.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The greatest 'Lark Ascending' recording
This is the RVW disc which started my collection of his music over ten years ago. It opens with a beautifully performed 'Serenade to Music', the only vocal track on the album. If you are normally allergic to 'classical' singing and prefer instrumental pieces, this may just convert you, because it has so many bewitching moments - and besides, the vocals on this recording are not quite as forward as other versions.
Again, if your opinion of British music is that it consists of 'marches and ceremonials', the English Folk Song Suite may overturn your thoughts on that genre. It certainly does include a march, but it's irresistable, and the Intermezzo is a gem.
The Norfolk Rhapsody and Fen Country pieces are atmospheric tone-poems from RVW's ... Read More:

 



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