The Essential Vaughan Williams

John Shirley-Quirk (Performer), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer), Adrian Boult (Conductor), John Barbirolli (Conductor), Neville Marriner (Conductor), David Willcocks (Conductor), Christopher Bishop (Conductor), Martin Neary (Conductor), Philip Moore (Conductor), Philip Ledger (Conductor), Stephen Cleobury (Conductor), David Daniels (Performer), London Music Group (Performer), Janet Baker (Performer), New Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra), The Sinfonia of London (Orchestra), London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), London Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra), Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Orchestra), English Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: John Shirley-Quirk, David Daniels, London Music Group, Janet Baker
• Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra, The Sinfonia of London, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, et al.
• Conductor: Adrian Boult, John Barbirolli, Neville Marriner, David Willcocks, Christopher Bishop, et al.
• Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Audio CD (June 24, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: EMI Classics
• ASIN: B0016MJ3KO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,401 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. The Lark Ascending, romance for violin & orchestra

2. Linden Lea, song for voice & orchestra ('In Linden Lea'; 'A Dorset Song')

3. Fantasia on Greensleeves, for harp, flute & strings (arranged by R. Greaves; from the opera 'Sir John In Love')

4. Silent Noon ('Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass'), song for voice & piano (The House of Life No. 2)

5. English Folk Song Suite, for orchestra (orchestrated by G. Jacob): 1. March (Seventeen Come Sunday)

6. English Folk Song Suite, for orchestra (orchestrated by G. Jacob): 2. Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy)

7. English Folk Song Suite, for orchestra (orchestrated by G. Jacob): 3. March (Folk Songs from Somerset)

8. The Vagabond ('Give to me the life I love'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra) (Songs of Travel No. 1)

9. Serenade to Music ('How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!') for 16 soloists (or soloists & chorus) & orchestra

10. On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble, song for tenor, piano & string quartet (or tenor & orchestra) (On Wenlock Edge No. 1)

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Disc: 2

1. The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite, for orchestra from the incidental music: Overture

2. Loch Lomond, folk song for baritone & male chorus

3. Ca' the yowes, folk song for tenor & chorus

4. Variants (5) of 'Dives and Lazarus' for string orchestra & harp (or harps)

5. O Taste and See, motet for chorus & organ (Psalm 34)

6. Job, A Masque for Dancing, ballet: Pavane of the Sons of the Morning

7. Bushes and briars, folk song for male chorus or chorus or voice & piano (Folksongs from the Eastern Counties No. 1)

8. Wassail Song ('Wassail, wassail, all over the town'), carol for chorus ('Gloucestershire Wassail')

9. For All the Saints Who from Their Labours Rest, hymn ('Sine nomine')

10. The truth sent from above, carol for chorus or voice & piano (Traditional English Carols No. 6)

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