Three English Serenades
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Composer or Director: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar
Label: ASV
Magazine Review Date: 10/1989
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ZCDCA655
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Serenade to Music |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Andrea Matthews, Soprano Carlotta Wilsen, Soprano Frederick Urrey, Tenor Grayson Hirst, Tenor Herbert Eckoff, Bass Karen Brunssen, Contralto (Female alto) Karen Williams, Soprano Kenneth Klein, Conductor Marcus Haddock, Tenor Mary Shearer, Soprano Melissa Thorburn, Contralto (Female alto) New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony Orchestra Nickolas Karousatos, Bass Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Ronald Naldi, Tenor Stephen Owen, Bass Thomas Stallone, Bass Trudy Weaver, Contralto (Female alto) Virginia Dupuy, Contralto (Female alto) |
Serenade |
Edward Elgar, Composer
Edward Elgar, Composer Kenneth Klein, Conductor New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony Orchestra |
Composer or Director: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar
Label: ASV
Magazine Review Date: 10/1989
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: DCA655
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Serenade to Music |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Andrea Matthews, Soprano Carlotta Wilsen, Soprano Frederick Urrey, Tenor Grayson Hirst, Tenor Herbert Eckoff, Bass Karen Brunssen, Contralto (Female alto) Karen Williams, Soprano Kenneth Klein, Conductor Marcus Haddock, Tenor Mary Shearer, Soprano Melissa Thorburn, Contralto (Female alto) New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony Orchestra Nickolas Karousatos, Bass Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Ronald Naldi, Tenor Stephen Owen, Bass Thomas Stallone, Bass Trudy Weaver, Contralto (Female alto) Virginia Dupuy, Contralto (Female alto) |
Serenade |
Edward Elgar, Composer
Edward Elgar, Composer Kenneth Klein, Conductor New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony Orchestra |
Composer or Director: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar
Label: ASV
Magazine Review Date: 10/1989
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 52
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDDCA655
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Serenade to Music |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Andrea Matthews, Soprano Carlotta Wilsen, Soprano Frederick Urrey, Tenor Grayson Hirst, Tenor Herbert Eckoff, Bass Karen Brunssen, Contralto (Female alto) Karen Williams, Soprano Kenneth Klein, Conductor Marcus Haddock, Tenor Mary Shearer, Soprano Melissa Thorburn, Contralto (Female alto) New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony Orchestra Nickolas Karousatos, Bass Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Ronald Naldi, Tenor Stephen Owen, Bass Thomas Stallone, Bass Trudy Weaver, Contralto (Female alto) Virginia Dupuy, Contralto (Female alto) |
Serenade |
Edward Elgar, Composer
Edward Elgar, Composer Kenneth Klein, Conductor New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony Orchestra |
Author:
Boult recorded it for EMI with 16 of the best young British singers of the 1970s, but the result has always sounded slightly self-conscious, as if the shadows of the original soloists were visible in the studio. These American singers have no such inhibitions. To them, it is just a superb score and the initials against each part are irrelevant or only of vague historical interest. The result is a performance that catches the spirit of the work its nocturnal magic and rapture, and the recording enables the subtly worked orchestral accompaniment to be heard in all its detail.
Grayson Hirst, the tenor who sings the Parry Jones part, is also the soloist in Britten's Serenade
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