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SOMM Recordings

Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 2

$20.99

Details

Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Artist
Sir Adrian Boult
Format
CD
Label
SOMM Recordings
Released
Nov 04, 2022
Catalog #
ARIADNE 5018
UPC
748871501829

About

SOMM Recordings’ celebration of the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth continues with Volume 2 of Vaughan Williams Live, featuring historic performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult in new, signature remasterings by Lani Spahr with authoritative booklet notes by Vaughan Williams’ biographer Simon Heffer. Two works featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus include a 1945 BBC radio broadcast of the first performance of the wartime masterpiece Thanksgiving for Victory – with soprano Elsie Suddaby, organist George Thalben-Ball and Valentine Dyall as the speaker – and the rapturous Serenade to Music from the opening night of the BBC’s Third Programme (now Radio 3) in 1946. First performed in 1938 in celebration of Henry Wood’s jubilee as a conductor and originally composed for 16 solo singers, it appears here in its version for orchestra, chorus and four soloists – Isobel Baillie (soprano), Astra Desmond (contralto), Beveridge White (tenor), and Harold Williams (baritone). Its dedicatee, Boult, conducts a performance of Job: A Masque for Dancing in 1946 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra before he made his four studio recordings of the work. Volume 1 of Vaughan Williams Live (SOMM Ariadne 5016) 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 other Vaughan Williams recordings include the Gramophone Award-winning Symphony No.5 and Dona Nobis Pacem with the LPO/BBCSO (SOMMCD 071), and The Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams by Mark Bebbington and Rebecca Omordia (SOMMCD 0164), described by International Piano as “compelling”.

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 A Song of Thanksgiving 15:35
    Track
    1
    Title
    A Song of Thanksgiving
    Duration
    15:35
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Performer
    Valentine Dyall, Elsie Suddaby, George Thalben-Ball
    Ensemble
    Thomas Coram Schools Children's Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Adrian Boult
  2. 2 Serenade to Music 14:14
    Track
    2
    Title
    Serenade to Music
    Duration
    14:14
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Performer
    Isobel Baillie, Astra Desmond, Beveridge White, Harold Williams
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Adrian Boult
  3. 3 Scene 1: Introduction - Pastoral Dance - Satan's Appeal to God - Saraband of the Sons of God 10:01
    Track
    3
    Title
    Scene 1: Introduction - Pastoral Dance - Satan's Appeal to God - Saraband of the Sons of God
    Duration
    10:01
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Adrian Boult
  4. 4 Scene 2: Satan's Dance of Triumph 03:24
    Track
    4
    Title
    Scene 2: Satan's Dance of Triumph
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Adrian Boult
  5. 5 Scene 3: Minuet of the Sons of Job and Their Wives 04:10
    Track
    5
    Title
    Scene 3: Minuet of the Sons of Job and Their Wives
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Adrian Boult
  6. 6 Scene 4: Job's Dream - Dance of Plague, Pestilence, Famine and Battle 04:03
    Track
    6
    Title
    Scene 4: Job's Dream - Dance of Plague, Pestilence, Famine and Battle
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Adrian Boult
  7. 7 Scene 5: Dance of the Messengers 05:15
    Track
    7
    Title
    Scene 5: Dance of the Messengers
    Duration
    05:15
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Adrian Boult
  8. 8 Scene 6: Dance of Job's Comforters - Job's Curse - A Vision of Satan 05:02
    Track
    8
    Title
    Scene 6: Dance of Job's Comforters - Job's Curse - A Vision of Satan
    Duration
    05:02
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Adrian Boult
  9. 9 Scene 7: Elihu's Dance of Youth and Beauty - Pavane of the Sons of the Morning 05:48
    Track
    9
    Title
    Scene 7: Elihu's Dance of Youth and Beauty - Pavane of the Sons of the Morning
    Duration
    05:48
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Adrian Boult
  10. 10 Scene 8: Galliard of the Sons of Morning - Altar Dance and Heavenly Pavane 04:59
    Track
    10
    Title
    Scene 8: Galliard of the Sons of Morning - Altar Dance and Heavenly Pavane
    Duration
    04:59
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Adrian Boult
  11. 11 Scene 9: Epilogue 03:51
    Track
    11
    Title
    Scene 9: Epilogue
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Adrian Boult