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This release celebrates the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with a third volume of archive recordings, featuring signature works conducted by the composer including the 1943 world premiere of his Fifth Symphony with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. All performances here have been expertly restored and re-mastered by Lani Spahr.
Recorded during the BBC Proms, the Fifth Symphony is among live performances recorded off the air by engineer Kenneth Leech held in the British Library. Begun under the shadow of mounting fears of war in Europe, it is illuminated by Vaughan Williams’ relationship with his second wife-to-be, Ursula Wood and served, as biographer Simon Heffer’s booklet note says, as “a reminder of the pre-war England in which the composer’s soul and creative spirit remained”. Also from the Leech Collection, the London Symphony Orchestra’s 1946 Proms account of A London Symphony (No. 2), is an “historic performance of one of his greatest and most enduring works”.
A Gramophone Award-winner in 2008 and newly re-mastered for reissue with this celebratory set, the LPO also feature in the Fifth Symphony from 1952, coupled with a 1936 Dona nobis pacem by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and soloists, soprano Renée Flynn and baritone Roy Henderson. © SOMM Recordings
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Symphony No. 2 "London" (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Symphony No. 5 in D Major (1943 World Premiere) (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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DISC 2
Symphony No. 5 in D major (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Dona nobis pacem (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Renee Flynn, Artist, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Walt Whitman, Lyricist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Walt Whitman, Lyricist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Roy Henderson, Artist, MainArtist - Renee Flynn, Artist, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Walt Whitman, Lyricist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Ralph Vaugha Williams, Conductor, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Roy Henderson, Artist, MainArtist - John Bright, Lyricist - Renee Flynn, Artist, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer, Artist, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Roy Henderson, Artist, MainArtist - Renee Flynn, Artist, MainArtist
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Album review
This release celebrates the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with a third volume of archive recordings, featuring signature works conducted by the composer including the 1943 world premiere of his Fifth Symphony with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. All performances here have been expertly restored and re-mastered by Lani Spahr.
Recorded during the BBC Proms, the Fifth Symphony is among live performances recorded off the air by engineer Kenneth Leech held in the British Library. Begun under the shadow of mounting fears of war in Europe, it is illuminated by Vaughan Williams’ relationship with his second wife-to-be, Ursula Wood and served, as biographer Simon Heffer’s booklet note says, as “a reminder of the pre-war England in which the composer’s soul and creative spirit remained”. Also from the Leech Collection, the London Symphony Orchestra’s 1946 Proms account of A London Symphony (No. 2), is an “historic performance of one of his greatest and most enduring works”.
A Gramophone Award-winner in 2008 and newly re-mastered for reissue with this celebratory set, the LPO also feature in the Fifth Symphony from 1952, coupled with a 1936 Dona nobis pacem by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and soloists, soprano Renée Flynn and baritone Roy Henderson. © SOMM Recordings
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 27 track(s)
- Total length: 02:25:27
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Label: SOMM Recordings
- Genre: Classical
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