Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6
London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
[ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Friday 16 April 2021
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Sir Antonio Pappano leads the London Symphony Orchestra in a pair of symphonies by Ralph Vaughan Williams that span the build-up and aftermath of the Second World War.
Throughout the Fourth Symphony Vaughan Williams channels tension and power through the music inamongst moments of light and clarity. It evokes a sense of hardship and persistence, perhaps suggesting the ever-present threat of war in the 1930s.
Written in 1947, the composer's Sixth Symphony also seems to reflect the hardships and devastation wrought by World War II. Melancholic in some movements, ferocious in others.
"They're both electrifying, and they sound absolutely magnificent...Pappano makes sure [the Fourth] sings as often as it can...This is a terrible beauty, energetic, Satanic, utterly spellbinding, keeping enough in reserve to make the biggest climaxes truly shattering...The opening bars of this Sixth, a cry of anguish that's also passionate bel canto song, promise the very best recording of the work." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 Shortlisted - Orchestral
"Pappano's dramatic, thrustful accounts, vividly recorded, have a momentous, dynamic allure that bodes well for his future tenure, and the orchestra plays this music... to the manner born." Sunday Times
"There is so much musicality and great playing here that I cannot resist offering a strong recommendation." Fanfare
