Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 2

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Label
SOMM Recordings
Release Date
November 4, 2022
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ralph Vaughan Williams
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bbc Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Sir Adrian Boult
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 04, 2022
    • UPC
      748871501829
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ARIADNE 5018
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. A Song of Thanksgiving

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Thomas Coram Schools Children's Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Valentine Dyall, Elsie Suddaby, George Thalben-Ball

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    2. Serenade to Music

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Isobel Baillie, Astra Desmond, Beveridge White, Harold Williams

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    3. Scene 1: Introduction - Pastoral Dance - Satan's Appeal to God - Saraband of the Sons of God

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    4. Scene 2: Satan's Dance of Triumph

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    5. Scene 3: Minuet of the Sons of Job and Their Wives

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    6. Scene 4: Job's Dream - Dance of Plague, Pestilence, Famine and Battle

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    7. Scene 5: Dance of the Messengers

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    8. Scene 6: Dance of Job's Comforters - Job's Curse - A Vision of Satan

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    9. Scene 7: Elihu's Dance of Youth and Beauty - Pavane of the Sons of the Morning

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    10. Scene 8: Galliard of the Sons of Morning - Altar Dance and Heavenly Pavane

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Adrian Boult

    11. Scene 9: Epilogue

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Adrian Boult


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”.