Ralph Vaughan Williams: Chorwerke (4 CDs)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

John Gielgud, Judith Howarth, Thomas Allen, John Mark Ainsley, Lynne Dawson, John Bowen, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, City Of London Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best,

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Serenade to Music; 4 Mystical Songs; Fantasia on Christmas Carols; Flos Campi; Dona nobis pacem; 4 Hymns; Toward the Unknown Region; Lord, Thou hast been our refuge; A Bunyan Sequence; The Pilgrim's Progress; A Song of Thanksgiving; 3 Choral Hymns; Magnificat; The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains

Künstler:: John Gielgud, Judith Howarth, Thomas Allen, John Mark Ainsley, Lynne Dawson, John Bowen, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best
Label:: Hyperion
Aufnahmejahr ca.:: 1990-1993
UPC/EAN:: 0034571143217
Erscheinungstermin:: 20.6.2008

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Issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Vaughan Williams's death, this collection is tantalizing: it starts with one of the best-selling discs in the the catalogue, the Serenade to Music, and includes such favourites as the Five Mystical Songs and The Hundreth Psalm. There are also two intriguing pairings: in Dona nobis pacem, RVW warns of the impending doom of WWII, in A song of thanksgiving we hear his moving response to its successful conclusion; in The shepherds of the delectable mountains we hear an early working of Bunyan's literary masterpiece, later extensively reworked in the landmark 1942 BBC radio production of The Pilgrim's Progress featuring Sir John Gielgud and reprised here, this time in condensed form. Throughout the collection, RVW's mastery in setting great texts to music is evident, and has prompted the sort of glowing reviews that make this box-set a must have.

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»The performances are splendid, graced by such soloists as Thomas Allen and Bryn Terfel … The rapturous Serenade to Music has a cast of 16 singers fit to rival those of the original recording« (Sunday Times)

»This is as impressive and noteworthy a set as one could ask. It cuts a juicy swathe through the RVW catalogue of vocal works. In doing so it mixes the great with enjoyable ephemera and the Bunyan-centred with the godly and grand … Hyperion's laurels of the nineties granted freshly irresistible life in the now not so new millennium« (MusicWeb. com)

»The quality of Best's choristers and his insistence on the highest standards hallmark the Corydon Singers' catalogue of Hyperion recordings, especially so in their Vaughan Williams output released here on four CDs … Best's sense of pacing, feeling for word-painting and singer's instinct for phrasing never fail« (Classic FM Magazine)

»This present collection brings together critical elements of Vaughan Williams's style in excellent interpretations and recordings with a comprehensive set of notes, texts and photographs. In this 50th-anniversary year, it becomes an affectionate document – and proof of the composer's mastery of choral writing« (Choir and Organ Magazine)