MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vaughan Williams: The Collector's Edition [30 CD set]

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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vaughan Williams: The Collector's Edition [30 CD set]
Various performers incls Jonathan Small (oboe), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Piers Lane (piano), Larry Adler (harmonica), Music Group of London

[ EMI Classics / 30 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Monday 28 April 2008

Celebrated as the musical poet of the English landscape, Vaughan Williams was also a visionary composer of enormous range: from the pastoral lyricism of The Lark Ascending and the still melancholy of Silent Noon to the violence of the Fourth Symphony and the grand ceremonial of All people that on earth do dwell, he assumed the mantle of Elgar as our national composer. This edition, released to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, presents all the major orchestral, chamber, vocal and stage works, as well as many lesser pieces and rarities, in the finest interpretations. All your favourite Vaughan Williams is here, in over 34 hours of music on 30 CDs

NOTE: Booklet has some markings on each page.
NOTE: Box has a mark on the back

"A convincing and deeply moving showcase… exceptional value… it's scope breathtaking. This is the essential set, and if you're at all drawn to VW you might as well buy the whole damn show now - because sooner or later you're going to anyway." BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 *****

"The chamber music is spearheaded by the venerable but long-lasting virtues of The Music Group of London, who perform the Second Quartet; the First is played by the Britten Quartet. On Wenlock Edge is represented by Robert Tear with Rattle and the City of Birmingham." MusicWeb

"If you want three versions of the Serenade to Music, here they are - the full choral one, the one for 16 vocal soloists and the orchestral version. There is only one version of the Tallis Fantasia but thankfully it's Silvestri's - gloriously red-bloodied. Dives and Lazarus is in the safe, sympathetic hands of David Willcocks" MusicWeb

"The playing by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is of the highest standard throughout, with notable solos taken by the leader and other string and wind section principals...I'd forgotten how effectively Handley paced the symphonies or how successful a symphonic set this was. He had all the attributes of his mentor and guide, Boult, but had the Liverpool orchestra playing at the top of its form - and heard in splendid sound." MusicWeb

Tracks:

Symphonies Nos. 1-9
(Joan Rogers, soprano, William Shimell, baritone, Alison Barlow, soprano, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley)

Oboe Concerto in A minor
(Jonathan Small, oboe, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Serenade to Music (choral version)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
Serenade to Music (16 soloists)
(London Symphony Orchestra & New Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult)

Partita for double string orchestra
The Wasps - Aristophanic Suite
Prelude and Fugue in C minor
(London Philharmonic Orchestra & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley)

Piano Concerto in C major
(Piers Lane, piano, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley)

Piano Concerto in C for two pianos
(Vitya Vronsky & Victor Babin, pianos, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult)

English Folk Song Suite (orchestral)
Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
The Lark Ascending
In the Fen Country
Job: A Masque for Dancing
(London Symphony Orchestra & New Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult)

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Constantin Silvestri

Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra
(London Philharmonic Orchestra / Adrian Boult)

Tuba Concerto in F minor
(Philip Cantelint, tuba, London Symphony Orchestra / Sir John Barbirolli

Serenade to Music (orchestral)
Old King Cole
(Northern Sinfonia of England / Richard Hickox)

Five Mystical Songs
(Stephen Roberts, baritone, Northern Sinfonia of England / Richard Hickox)

Sea Songs - March
English Folk Song Suite (band)
(Central Band of the Royal Air Force / Eric Banks)

Dawn Patrol
(Royal Liverpool Philharmonic / Charles Groves)

Ten Blake Songs
On Wenlock Edge
(Ian Partridge, tenor, Music Group of London)

The Hose of Life
Songs of Travel
(Anthony olfe Johnson, tenor, David Williams, piano)

Linden Lea
(Janet Baker, mezzo, Gerald Moore, piano)

Epithalamion
(Stephen Roberts, baritone, Howard Shelley, piano, onathan Snowden, flute, Bach Choir, London Philharmonic, David Willcocks)

and much much more