Vaughan Williams: Discoveries Roderick Williams
Album info
Album-Release:
2016
HRA-Release:
10.10.2016
Label: Albion
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Artist: Roderick Williams, Jennifer Johnston, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Martyn Brabbins
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- 1 Nocturne No. 1. Smile O Voluptuous Cool-Breathd Earth 03:53
- 2 Nocturne No. 2. Whispers of Heavenly Death 06:03
- 3 Nocturne No. 3. Out of the Rolling Ocean 07:52
- 4 A Road All Paved with Stars (after R. Vaughan Williams A Poisoned Kiss) 27:05
- 5 Stricken Peninsula (arr. P. Lane) 08:15
- 6 No. 1. Procris 02:29
- 7 No. 2. Tired 02:12
- 8 No. 3. Hands, Eyes and Heart 01:29
- 9 No. 4. Menelaus 05:05
Info for Vaughan Williams: Discoveries
Discoveries offers world-première recordings of works by Ralph Vaughan Williams and an insight into him as a visionary, as a romantic, as a patriot and as a lover. The works presented here span his entire working career, from the Three Nocturnes of 1908 to the Four Last Songs composed fifty years later. What unites them is that living composers have been involved in realising them in their present form. Three composers, Anthony Payne, Adrian Williams and Philip Lane, combine an understanding of Vaughan Williams’s music with a deep love of it, so that the additional writing enhances rather than conceals or modifies RVW’s original.
Roderick Williams, baritone (on tracks 1 - 3)
Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano (on tracks 6 – 9)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
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Booklet for Vaughan Williams: Discoveries