Name: Ralph Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 3
Price: 23.75 USD
Availability: BackOrder

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

[Dona Nobis Pacem] The chorus and orchestra are superb; soprano Renée Flynn sings with purity of tone and penetrating feeling; baritone Roy Henderson has a somewhat peculiar sound due to facial... — Fanfare, July/August 2023 More…

Release Date: 18th Nov 2022
Catalogue No: ARIADNE5019-2
Label: Somm
Series: Vaughan Williams Live
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 "London"

Work length40:01

$10.00

$13.00

$17.50

London Symphony Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ia. Lento - Allegro risoluto

Track length4:40

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Ib.

Track length4:47

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Ic.

Track length3:35

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

IIa. Lento

Track length1:29

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

IIb.

Track length4:45

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

IIc.

Track length3:22

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Scherzo

Track length7:10

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

IVa. Finale

Track length5:00

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

IVb.

Track length5:13

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D Major (1943 World Premiere)

Work length33:39

$8.00

$10.40

$14.00

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ia. Preludio [Live]

Track length5:07

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Ib. — [Live]

Track length5:05

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Ic. — [Live]

Track length0:52

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

II. Scherzo [Live]

Track length4:02

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

IIIa. Romanza [Live]

Track length4:11

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

IIIb. — [Live]

Track length5:13

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

IVa. Passacaglia [Live]

Track length5:08

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

IVb. — [Live]

Track length4:01

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major

Work length37:19

$10.00

$12.85

$17.50

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams

I. Preludio (Live) [2022 Remastered Version]

Track length11:47

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

II. Scherzo (Live) [2022 Remastered Version]

Track length5:05

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Romanza (Live) [2022 Remastered Version]

Track length10:09

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

IV. Passacaglia (Live) [2022 Remastered Version]

Track length10:18

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem

Work length34:28

$9.00

$11.65

$15.75

Roy Henderson, Renee Flynn
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus
Ralph Vaugha Williams, Ralph Vaughan Williams

I. Lento (2022 Remastered Version)

Track length3:23

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

II. Allegro moderato (2022 Remastered Version)

Track length3:59

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Reconciliation (2022 Remastered Version)

Track length6:39

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

IV. Dirge for Two Veterans (2022 Remastered Version)

Track length10:00

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

V. L'istesso tempo (2022 Remastered Version)

Track length3:06

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

V. Poco animato (2022 Remastered Version)

Track length7:21

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

About
Reviews
Explore

About

SOMM RECORDINGS celebrates the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth with Vaughan Williams Live, Volume 3, featuring signature works conducted by the composer including the 1943 world premiere of his Fifth Symphony with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. All performances on this double-CD set have been expertly restored and remastered 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’s 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.

Volume 1 of Vaughan Williams Live (SOMM Ariadne5016) was hailed by All About the Arts as “beautifully remastered [and] sounding like pure gold” and was The Symphonist’s Record of the Week. SOMM’s Vaughan Williams recordings include the “compelling” (International Piano) The Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams by Mark Bebbington and Rebeca Omordia (SOMMCD0164).

Lani Spahr’s acclaimed SOMM restorations include Elgar Rediscovered (SOMMCD0167) and four-disc Elgar Remastered (SOMMCD2614) – “a fascinating achievement which will have you wishing for more” (Audiophilia). Volume 3 of Elgar from America (SOMM Ariadne50152) was a Gramophone Editor’s Choice declaring Spahr’s “superb audio restorations bring the performances fully to life”.

Reviews

July/August 2023

[Dona Nobis Pacem] The chorus and orchestra are superb; soprano Renée Flynn sings with purity of tone and penetrating feeling; baritone Roy Henderson has a somewhat peculiar sound due to facial mask inflection and tends to scoop from one word into another, but is still effective and at time poignant...an essential acquisition for all lovers of RVW’s music

British Music Society Journal

His, by all accounts unflashy style of direction, was able to draw dynamic, beautifully shaped performances. His works are not easy to bring off and it is a testament to his abilities as a conductor that everything is held so tightly together… This is a wonderful release.

Ralph Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 3

2 CDs

Downloads

Contents

Download queue