Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works
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Composer or Director: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Label: Classics
Magazine Review Date: 1/1989
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 69
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 790733-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Symphony No. 5 |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor |
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Kenneth Broadway, Piano Ralph Markham, Piano Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Label: Classics
Magazine Review Date: 1/1989
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 790733-1
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Symphony No. 5 |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor |
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Kenneth Broadway, Piano Ralph Markham, Piano Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Label: Classics
Magazine Review Date: 1/1989
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 790733-4
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Symphony No. 5 |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor |
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Kenneth Broadway, Piano Ralph Markham, Piano Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor |
Author:
Vaughan Williams appears to leave much to the conductor in the Fifth Symphony: the score is innocent of expression marks except for the occasional tempo indication. But so tautly is the symphony constructed and so infallibly does it generate its own momentum that one might think there could be little difference between one interpretation and another. However, Bryden Thomson has recently shown for Chandos how much more it contains than its
Where this issue scores over the Chandos is in having another major (and neglected) VW work to keep the symphony company. Before I played the disc, I was disappointed that the opportunity had not been taken to record the original one-piano version of the concerto, since I have come to regard the two-piano revision as an aberration. However, I am bound to say that this performance by two young American pianists has rehabilitated it to a considerable extent. Again, the recorded balance is very fine, so that two sound like one for most of the time. Why is this remarkable work so neglected, not to say scorned? It is Vaughan Williams at the peak of his powers, the first movement belonging to the world of Job and the Fourth Symphony, and the third a fugue that turns into a waltz. Alla tedesca, says the composer of this finale, but it is the waltz as seen by Ravel in La valse. The influence of Ravel is again apparent in the slow movement. Menuhin conducts the work splendidly—its mysterious, haunted ending is profoundly impressive.'
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