Vaughan Williams Job

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Ralph Vaughan Williams

Label: Classics for Pleasure

Media Format: Cassette

Media Runtime: 0

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: TC-CFP4603

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Job Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Vernon Handley, Conductor

Composer or Director: Ralph Vaughan Williams

Label: Classics for Pleasure

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 48

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: CD-CFP4603

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Job Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Vernon Handley, Conductor
Now that EMI have distressingly deleted Boult's classic LSO account of VW's visionary score (how long, I wonder, before that legendary performance returns to circulation?), Handley's terrific LPO version (formerly on mid-price Eminence) naturally assumes its place at the front of the pack, ahead of such recent full-price competitors as Wordsworth (Collins Classics) and Hickox (EMI). Working in the spacious acoustic of St Augustine's Church, Kilburn in north-west London, sound engineer Mike Clements captures the awesome organ entry in scene 6 with startling impact, though, if truth be told, the instrument was even more thrillingly integrated within the orchestral fabric on Boult's 1970 Kingsway Hall, London production. Otherwise, the 1983 digital recording has exemplary range and lustre. Moreover, indexing is now far more copious than it was on the initial Eminence release, with each of the nine scenes rightly allotted its own entry point. So don't delay: this CD enshrines one of Handley's supreme achievements in the studio to date. A remarkable bargain indeed.'

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