Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 4 / Mitropoulos, Barbirolli, NY Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra

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Label
SOMM Recordings
Release Date
March 3, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ralph Vaughan Williams
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Arthur Whittemore, Jack Lowe, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Halle O
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 03, 2023
    • UPC
      748871502024
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ARIADNE 5020
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos

    2. I. Toccata

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Arthur Whittemore, Jack Lowe

      Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos

    3. II. Romanza

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Arthur Whittemore, Jack Lowe

      Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos

    4. III. Fuga chromatica con Finale alla Tedseca

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Arthur Whittemore, Jack Lowe

      Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos

    5. I. Fantasia (Variazioni senza Tema)

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Hallé Orchestra

      Conductor: John Barbirolli

    6. II. Scherzo alla marcia (per stromenti a fiato)

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Hallé Orchestra

      Conductor: John Barbirolli

    7. III. Cavatina (per stromenti ad arco)

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Hallé Orchestra

      Conductor: John Barbirolli

    8. IV. Toccata

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Hallé Orchestra

      Conductor: John Barbirolli


SOMM RECORDINGS continues its acclaimed Vaughan Williams Live series celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with Volume 4 featuring his signature Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, the Concerto for Two Pianos and Eighth Symphony in recordings conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos and Sir John Barbirolli. The Tallis Fantasia is a live recording from Carnegie Hall in 1943 with Mitropoulos, a committed advocate for Vaughan Williams’ music, conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. They are also heard in the Concerto for Two Pianos, again from Carnegie Hall in 1952, when the soloists were Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, who forged a widely popular and critically acclaimed piano duo partnership in America in the middle of the last century. Recorded in Manchester’s Free Trade Hall in 1964, the Symphony No.8 is blazingly conducted by its dedicatee, Sir John Barbirolli, leading the Hallé Orchestra.