Vaughan Williams Job; Tallis Fantasia
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Composer or Director: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Label: HMV Treasury
Magazine Review Date: 5/1986
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Catalogue Number: ED290800-1

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Composition | Artist Credit |
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Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Adrian Boult, Conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer |
Composer or Director: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Label: HMV Treasury
Magazine Review Date: 5/1986
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Catalogue Number: ED290800-4

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Composition | Artist Credit |
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Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Adrian Boult, Conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer |
Author: Michael Oliver
The playing is good, too, the characterful woodwind and powerful but never coarse brass giving muscle as well as elegiac beauty to this music (though in ''Job's Dream'' there is a strong indication that viola playing, at least, has improved quite a bit in 40 years). That having been said, I cannot think of any respect in which these performances are actually preferable to Sir Adrian's later readings, and the recordings, carefully though they have been transferred, are greyish and at times congested, with touches of distortion here and there (quite a nasty one at cue C in the Fantasia). Primarily for specialists in orchestral history or collectors of creator's recordings, I suspect.
The Fantasia, by the way, has been issued on LP before, in the BBC Artium mono boxed set published to commemorate the BBC Symphony Orchestra's 50th anniversary in 1980 (BBC4001, 8/80). '
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