Edward Elgar & Ralph Vaugahn Williams - Violin Sonatas

Edward ELGAR (1857-1934)

Violin Sonata in E minor, Op.82 (1918) [25:36]

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Violin Sonata in A minor (1954) [26:50]

The Lark Ascending (1914) [14:18]

Jennifer Pike (violin)

Martin Roscoe (piano)

Recorded at Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk; 27-29 October 2019

A Shropshire Lad - English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams

A Shropshire Lad

Orchestrations by Roderick Williams

John Ireland (1914-1992)

Great Things

Sea Fever

Ina Boyle (1889-1967)

The Joy of Earth

William Denis Browne (1888-191

To Gratiana dancing and singing

George Butterworth (1885-1916)

Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’

Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)

The pulley

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

The House of Life

Madeleine Dring (1923-1977)

Take, O take those lips away

James Burton (b.1974)

When I set out for Lyonesse

Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)

The seal man

Ernest Farrar (1885-1918)

Silent noon

Roderick Williams (baritone)

The Hallé Orchestra

Mark Elder

rec. 2022, Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester

British Tone Poems Vol.2 (Bliss, Foulds, Fogg, Goossens, Vaughan Williams, Howell, Cowen, Hadley)

British Tone Poems - Volume 2

John FOULDS (1880-1939)

April-England, Op.48 No.1 (1926, orchestrated 1932)

Eric FOGG (1903-1939)

Merok (1929) 

Eugene GOOSSENS (1893-1962)

By the Tarn, Op.15 No.1 (1916) 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Harnham Down (ed. James Francis Brown) (1904-07)

Dorothy HOWELL (1898-1982)

Lamia (1918) 

Frederic Hymen COWEN (1852-1935)

Rêverie (1903) 

Patrick HADLEY (1899-1973)

Kinder Scout (1923) 

Arthur BLISS (1891-1975)

Mêlée fantasque (1921, revised 1937) 

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba

Recorded: 2019, MediaCity UK, Salford

British Tone Poems Vol.1 (Austin, Alwyn, Bantock, Gurney, Balfour Gardiner, Vaughan Williams)

British Tone Poems - Volume 1

Frederic AUSTIN (1872-1952)

Spring. Symphonic Rhapsody (1902-07) 

William ALWYN (1905-1985)

Blackdown. A Tone Poem from the Surrey Hills (1926) 

Granville BANTOCK (1868-1946)

The Witch of Atlas. Tone Poem No 5 for Orchestra (1902) 

Ivor GURNEY (1890-1937)

A Gloucestershire Rhapsody for Orchestra (1919-21), ed. Philip Lancaster and Ian Venables 

Henry BALFOUR GARDINER (1877-1950)

A Berkshire Idyll for Small Orchestra (1913) 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

The Solent. Impression for Orchestra (1902-03) ed. James Francis Brown 

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rumon Gamba

Recccorded:  14-16 September 2016, BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

Susan Chilcott - The Shining River (Songs by Copland, Strauss, Berlioz, Britten, Argento & Vaugan Williams)

Susan Chilcott - The Shining River

Aaron COPLAND (1900-1990)

Old American Songs Set 1

Old American Songs Set 2

(12) Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Little Horses

Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)

(6) Lieder, Movement: Lieder der Ophelia 

Hector BERLIOZ (1803-1869)

Tristia, Movement: No. 2, La mort d'Ophélie

Dominik ARGENTO (1927-2019)

(6) Elizabethan Songs, Movement: Winter (wds. Shakespeare)

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Orpheus with his lute

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)

(4) Cabaret songs, Movement: Calypso

Iain Burnside (Piano)

Susan Chilcott (Soprano)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Willow-Wood; The Sons of Light; Toward the Unknown Region

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1873-1958)

Toward the Unknown Region (1907) 

Willow-Wood (1909) *

The Voice of the Whirlwind (1947)

Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus (1939)

The Sons of Light (1951) 

 

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra

David Lloyd-Jones

* World Premier recording

rec. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 20 Feb, 8 May 2005. 

Ralph Vaughan Williams - A Sea Symphony; Serenade to Music

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Symphony No. 1 "A Sea Symphony" 

Serenade to Music 

Eleanor Lyons, Joanne Marie D’Mello (soprano) 

Michelle Neupert (alto) 

Yongkeun Kim (tenor) 

Christopher Maltman (baritone) 

Alexander Knight (bass) 

MDR Symphony Orchestra; 

MDR Radio Choir

Dennis Russell Davies

Recorded Live at Gewandhous, Leipzig 8-5-2022 (Symphony) and 4 and 5-6, 2021 (Serenade)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Complete String Quartets

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

String Quartet in C minor (1898)

String Quartet No 1 in G minor (1908)

String Quartet No 2 in A minor ‘For Jean on her Birthday’ (1942-1943)

Verdi Quartett

rec. 2017, WDR Klaus-von-Bismarck Saal, Cologne, Germany

Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Piano Music

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Piano Music

The Lake in the Mountains for solo piano (1947) 

Introduction and Fugue for two pianos (first CD recording) (1945-46) 

Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ – J.S. Bach BVW 649 arr. RVW for solo piano (1932) 

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis arr. RVW and Maurice Jacobson for two pianos (1945-46) 

Hymn Tune Prelude on ‘Song 13’ (Orlando Gibbons) for solo piano (1928) 

Fantasia on Greensleeves – Piano duet, adapted from the opera, Sir John in Love (1934) 

A Little Piano Book six pieces for solo piano (1934) 

Suite of Six Short Pieces for solo piano (1920

Mark Bebbington (solo piano & duet)

Rebecca Omordia (piano duet)

rec. Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire , 30-31 March 2016

Vaughan Williams and Holst - String Quartets

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAAMS (1872-1958)

String Quartet No 2 in A minor ‘For Jean on her Birthday’ (1942-43)

String Quartet No 1 in G minor (1908)

Gustav HOLST (1874-1934)

Phantasy on British Folksongs, Op 36 (1916)

Tippett Quartet

rec. 2022, St. Nicholas Parish Church, Thames Ditton, UK

Vaughan Williams - Folk Songs Vol.1

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Folk Songs - Volume 1

Mary Bevan (soprano); Nicky Spence (tenor); Roderick Williams (baritone)

Jack Liebeck (violin)

William Vann (piano)

rec. 2020, Henry Wood Hall, London

British Music For Viola And Orchestra

British Music For Viola And Orchestra

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Suite for Viola and Orchestra (1934)

Herbert HOWELLS (1892-1983)

Elegy for viola, string quartet and string orchestra (1917) 

William WALTON (1902-1983)

Viola Concerto in A minor (1929, rev 1961) 

York BOWEN (1884-1961)

Viola Concerto in C minor, Op.25 (1907) 

Helen Callus (viola)

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Marc Taddei

rec. 2005, Michael Fowler Centre Auditorium, Wellington, New Zealand

The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams Vol.3

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

The Film Music Volume 3

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

The Story of a Flemish Farm (Suite from the film The Flemish Farm) (1942) 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (Edited Stephen HOGGER)

The Loves of Joanna Godden (1946) 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS and Ernest IRVING (1878-1953) (Edited HOGGER)

Bitter Springs (1950) 

Ladies of Manchester Chamber Choir

Darius Battiwalla

BBC Philharmonic Orchesta

Rumon Gamba

rec. Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, 22-23 June 2005. DDD

 

The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams Vol.2

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

The Film Music Volume 2

49th Parallel (1940) (Suite edited by Stephen Hogger)

The Dim Little Island (1949) (Partially reconstructed by Stephen Hogger)

The England of Elizabeth (1955) (Suite edited by Stephen Hogger)

Emily Gray (soprano)

Martin Hindmarsh (tenor)

Chetham’s Chamber Choir

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gamba

Recorded Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, 30 September - 1 October 2003.

The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams Vol.1

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

The Film Music - Vol. 1

Scott of the Antarctic *(1948);

The People’s Land (1942) ;

Coastal Command (1943)

Merryn Gamba (soprano) *

Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus *

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gamba

Recorded in New Broadcasting House, Manchester; 12 and 21 March 2002

 

William Mathias - Piano Concertos Nos.1 and 2; Vaughan Williams - Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra

William MATHIAS (1934-1992)

Piano Concerto No. 1 Op.2, (ed. Rhiannon Mathias and Geraint Lewis) (1955) [24:52]

Piano Concerto No. 2 Op.13 (1961) [23:59]

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Fantasia for piano and orchestra (ed. Graham Parlett) (1896-1902 rev. 1904) [21:23]

 

Mark Bebbington (piano)

Ulster Orchestra

George Vass

rec. 15-16 May 2011, Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Vaughan Williams - Piano Concerto; The Wasps

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958) 

The Wasps (Aristophanic Suite)

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

English Folk Song Suite (orch. Gordon Jacob)

The Running Set

Ashley Wass, Piano

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

James Judd

recorded in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, England, on 27th and 28th, January 2009

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Piano Quintet; Quintet in D major; Romance; Six Studies

 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Piano Quintet in C minor (1903) 

Romance for Viola and Piano 

Quintet in D major (1898) 

Six Studies in English Folk Song (1926) 

London Soloists Ensemble 

(Lorraine McAslan (violin - Quintets), Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola - Piano Quintet and Romance), Karine Georgian (cello - Quintets), John Lenehan (piano), Anthony Pike (clarinet - Quintet in D and Six Studies), Chris West (double bass - Piano Quintet), Time Jackson (french horn - Quintet in D))

rec. The Music Room, Champs Hill Coldwaltham, West Sussex, England, 2-4 July 2013

Vaughan Williams - Mass in G minor - Choral Works

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958) 

Choral Works

Mass in G minor

Lord, Thou hast been our refuge - Motet

Prayer to the Father of Heaven - Motet

O vos omnes - Motet

O clap your hands

O taste and see

O how amiable

Come down, O Love divine (Down Ampney)

The Elora Festival Singers

Thomas Fitches (Organ)

Noel Edison 

Recorded 8-11 February 2000 in the Church of St. Mary Magdalen, Toronto and St. Mary's Church, Elora, Ontario, Canada.

Vaughan Williams - A Cotswold Romance, Death of Tintagiles

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

A Cotswold Romance  (1951)

adapted by Maurice Jacobson in collaboration with the composer, from "Hugh the Dover" (1910-14)

Death of Tintagiles (1913)

London Philharmonic Choir

London Symphony Orchestra

Richard Hickox

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