Vaughan Williams: Hodie (A Christmas Cantata) (This Day)

This page lists all recordings of Hodie (A Christmas Cantata) (This Day), by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) on CD & download (MP3 & FLAC).

A Christmas Cantata for soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists with mixed chorus (SATB), boys' voices, organ (optional), and full orchestra. Words from various sources. Sixteen movements: Prologue; Narration; Song (Milton: soprano and women's voices); Narration; Choral; Narration; The Oxen (Thomas Hardy: baritone and orch.); Narration; Pastoral (George Herbert: baritone and orch.); Narration; Lullaby (William Ballet: soprano and women's voices); Hymn (William Drummond: tenor and orch.); Narration; The March of the Three Kings (Ursula Vaughan Williams: soprano, tenor, baritone, chorus, and orch.); Choral (v. 1 anon.; v. 2 Ursula Vaughan Williams); Epilogue (adapted from St John's Gospel, 1: 1-14 and Milton's Nativity Hymn).

Dedication: To Herbert Howells.

The dedication continues: 'Dear Herbert, I find that in this Cantata I have inadvertently cribbed a phrase from your beautiful Hymnus Paradisi. Your passage seems to germane to my context that I have decided to keep it.' RVW.

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Vaughan Williams - A Sea Symphony & Hodie

Vaughan Williams - A Sea Symphony & Hodie


Vaughan Williams:

Symphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony'

Fantasia on Christmas Carols

version with full orchestra

Hodie (A Christmas Cantata)


“Early performances by this much-missed conductor, the Sea Symphony splendidly vivid and boisterous but marred by the underpowered baritone and shrill soprano.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2010 ****

EMI British Composers - 9689342

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Vaughan Williams: Hodie (A Christmas Cantata), etc.

Vaughan Williams:

Hodie (A Christmas Cantata)

Vaughan Williams’s Christmas Cantata Hodie (This Day) is a brilliant mosaic of musical styles set to poetry from the most diverse sources

Fantasia on Christmas Carols

The Fantasia on Christmas Carols, which incorporates a number of traditional English carols, is notable for the obbligato cello part and for the varied treatment of the choir, which provide an atmospheric choral-orchestral texture.


Janice Watson (soprano), Peter Hoare (tenor) & Stephen Gadd (baritone)

Guildford Choral Society, St Catherine’s School Choir & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton

“These are…engaging performances… in spacious modern sound…” BBC Music Magazine, December 2007 ****

“This is a work that should be done far more often… The clamour of bells, large and small, and of celebration prepare any audience to go out glowing into the snowy night and home.” MusicWeb International

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Naxos - 8570439

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams


Vaughan Williams:

Hodie (A Christmas Cantata)

Janet Baker, Richard Lewis, John Shirley-Quirk

Bach Choir, Westminster Abbey School Choristers, London Symphony Orchestra, David Willcocks

Fantasia on Christmas Carols

Guidford Cathedral Choir, Barry Rose


EMI British Composers - 5674272

(CD)

$7.25

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Vaughan Williams - The Collector’s Edition

Vaughan Williams - The Collector’s Edition


Vaughan Williams:

Symphonies Nos. 1-9

Joan Rogers (soprano), William Shimell (baritone), Alison Barlow (soprano)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Oboe Concerto in A minor

Jonathan Small (oboe)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Serenade to Music

choral version

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Partita for double string orchestra

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

The Wasps - Aristophanic Suite

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Prelude and Fugue in C minor

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Piano Concerto in C major

Piers Lane (piano)

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Piano Concerto in C for two pianos

Vitya Vronsky & Victor Babin

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Serenade to Music

16 soloists

London Symphony Orchestra & New Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

English Folk Song Suite

(orchestral)

London Symphony Orchestra & New Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1

London Symphony Orchestra & New Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

The Lark Ascending

London Symphony Orchestra & New Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

English Folk Song Suite

(band)

Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra

Tuba Concerto in F minor

Serenade to Music

(orchestral)

Northern Sinfonia of England, Richard Hickox

Old King Cole

Northern Sinfonia of England, Richard Hickox

Five Mystical Songs

Northern Sinfonia of England, Richard Hickox

Sea Songs

Northern Sinfonia of England, Richard Hickox

Variations for Brass Band

(orchestral)

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Northern SInfonia of England, Richard Hickox

String Quartet No. 1 in G minor

Britten Quartet

Violin Concerto in D minor 'Concerto Accademico'

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Northern SInfonia of England, Richard Hickox

Violin Sonata in A minor

Music Group of London

String Quartet No. 2 in A minor

Music Group of London

Toward the Unknown Region

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Dona Nobis Pacem

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Magnificat

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

An Oxford Elegy

Kings College Cambridge & London Symphony Orchestra, David Willcocks

Flos Campi

Kings College Cambridge & London Symphony Orchestra, David Willcocks

Whitsunday Hymn

Kings College Cambridge & London Symphony Orchestra, David Willcocks

Sancta Civitas

Kings College Cambridge & London Symphony Orchestra, David Willcocks

Five Tudor Portraits

Bach Choir, New Phil Orch & LSO, David Willcocks

Benedicite

Bach Choir, New Phil Orch & LSO, David Willcocks

Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus'

Bach Choir, New Phil Orch & LSO, David Willcocks

Hodie (A Christmas Cantata)

(w/strings & organ)

Janet Baker

Bach Choir & LSO, David Willcocks

Fantasia on Christmas Carols

(w/orch)

In Windsor Forest

Songs of Travel

On Wenlock Edge

Mass in G minor

Kings College Cambridge, David Willcocks

The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune 'All people that on earth do dwell'

Kings College Cambridge, David Willcocks

Te Deum in G

Kings College Cambridge, David Willcocks

Preludes (3) on Welsh Hymn Tunes (Bryn Calfaria, Rhosymedre & Hyfrydol), for organ

Kings College Cambridge, David Willcocks

Four Hymns

Ian Partridge

Music Group of London

Merciless Beauty

Ian Partridge

Music Group of London

Ten Blake Songs

Ian Partridge

Music Group of London

On Wenlock Edge

Ian Partridge

Music Group of London

The House of Life

Anthony Rolfe Johnson & David Willison

Songs of Travel

(piano)

A Song of Thanksgiving

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Epithalamion

Meredith Davies

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Orchestra Nova of Londo, David Willcocks

Riders to the Sea

Meredith Davies

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Orchestra Nova of Londo, David Willcocks

Hugh the Drover

Robert Tear / Sheila Armstrong / Michael Rippon & Robert Lloyd

Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral & RPO, Charles Groves

Sir John in Love

Felicity Palmer / Robert Tear / Robert Lloyd & Helen Watts

New Phil Orchestra, Meredith Davies

The Pilgrim's Progress (complete)

& rehearsal sequence

Ian Partridge / John Shirley-Quirk / Jean Temperley & John Noble

LPC / LPO, Adrian Boult

Job - A Masque for Dancing

London Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult


Celebrated as the musical poet of the English landscape, Vaughan Williams was also a visionary composer of enormous range: from the pastoral lyricism of The Lark Ascending and the still melancholy of Silent Noon to the violence of the Fourth Symphony and the grand ceremonial of All people that on earth do dwell, he assumed the mantle of Elgar as our national composer. This edition, released to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, presents all the major orchestral, chamber, vocal and stage works, as well as many lesser pieces and rarities, in the finest interpretations. All your favourite Vaughan Williams is here, in over 34 hours of music on 30 CDs

“A convincing and deeply moving showcase… exceptional value… it’s scope breathtaking. This is the essential set, and if you're at all drawn to VW you might as well buy the whole damn show now - because sooner or later you're going to anyway.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 *****

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First Choice - November 2008

EMI Composer Boxes - 2066362

(CD - 30 discs)

$92.75

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