Albion Archive Recordings of Ralph Vaughan Williams

Albion Records: ALBCD014

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Albion Archive Recordings of Ralph Vaughan Williams

Catalogue No:

ALBCD014

Discs:

2

Release date:

30th April 2012

Barcode:

5060158190140

Medium:

CD
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Albion Archive Recordings of Ralph Vaughan Williams


Vaughan Williams:

Five Tudor Portraits

On Wenlock Edge

Merciless Beauty

Household Music

CD2

Ralph Vaughan Williams's talk on Bach – The Great Bourgeois


Sebastian String Quartet, Salvation Army International Staff Band & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg

CD - 2 discs

$15.00

Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days.

These works are taken from the following archive sources:

On Wenlock Edge from Argo RG 20

Merciless Beauty from a broadcast on 28 May, 1960

Prelude on Three Welsh Hymn Tunes from the work’s first broadcast on 12 March, 1955

Five Tudor Portraits from Capitol Records CTL 7047, recorded live at the First Pittsburgh International Music Festival, 1952.

Bach; The Great Bourgeois was originally broadcast on 28th July, 1950

Front cover is a view of the Malvern Hills from a Victorian post-card.

Artists include Alexander Young, Nell Rankin, Robert. B. Anderson & Gordon Watson

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MusicWeb International

August 2012

“Although this was a live performance [of the Tudor Portraits] slips are few and there is a real feeling of a live occasion. Nell Rankin sings with real commitment as do the choir...[Young's] diction is faultless and he manages to avoid sounding self-pitying or simply feeble as do some of his rivals on disc...All in all this is a very welcome and imaginatively chosen selection of recordings which very much deserve resurrection.”

The Independent

4th May 2012

“the performances win through: Young's delivery of On Wenlock Edge is tremendously moving, while pianist Gordon Watson and the Sebastian String Quartet capture the nuances of tonal colour resulting from RVW's studies under Ravel. The three Rondels of Merciless Beauty are similarly affecting”

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