034571143217

Vaughan Williams: Choral Works

Matthew Best: Corydon Singers

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: CDS443214

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Release Date:  01 June 2008

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  034571143217

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

  • Description

    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.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Serenade to music
      • 2. Mystical Songs (5): no 1
      • 3. Easter
      • 4. Mystical Songs (5): no 2
      • 5. I got me flowers
      • 6. Mystical Songs (5): no 3
      • 7. Love bade me welcome
      • 8. Mystical Songs (5): no 4

      Disc 2

      • 1. The call
      • 2. Mystical Songs (5): no 5
      • 3. Antiphon
      • 4. Fantasia on Christmas Carols
      • 5. Flos campi
      • 6. Dona nobis pacem: no 1
      • 7. Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi
      • 8. Dona nobis pacem: no 2
      • 9. Beat! beat! drums! - Blow! bugles! blow!
      • 10. Dona nobis pacem: no 3
      • 11. Word over all
      • 12. beautiful as the sky

      Disc 3

      • 1. Dona nobis pacem: no 4
      • 2. The last sunbeam
      • 3. Dona nobis pacem: no 5
      • 4. The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land
      • 5. Hymns (4) for Tenor
      • 6. Viola and Strings: no 1
      • 7. Lord! come away!
      • 8. Hymns (4) for Tenor
      • 9. Viola and Strings: no 2
      • 10. Who is this fair one?
      • 11. Hymns (4) for Tenor
      • 12. Viola and Strings: no 3

      Disc 4

      • 1. Come Love
      • 2. come Lord
      • 3. Hymns (4) for Tenor
      • 4. Viola and Strings: no 4
      • 5. O gladsome light - O grace
      • 6. Toward the unknown region
      • 7. O clap your hands
      • . Lord