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Author Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958

Title Serenade to music ; English folk song suite ; Norfolk rhapsody no. 1 ; Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' ; In the Fen country ; the lark ascending / Vaughan Williams
Published Hayes, Middlesex, England : EMI Classics, [1991], ℗1987

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Series British composers
British composers.
Contents Serenade to music (13:14) -- English folk song suite / arr. Gordon Jacob (8:45) -- Norfolk rhapsody no. 1 (10:14) -- Fantasia on Greensleeves (4:34) -- In the Fen country (13:51) -- The lark ascending (14:42)
Notes The 1st work for 16 solo singers (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB) and orchestra (text from Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice); the 2nd originally for military band; the 6th for violin and orchestra
Words of the 1st work from Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice (act V, scene 1)
Selections previously released, ℗1967, ℗1968, ℗1971
Copmpact disc
Notes by Geoffrey Crankshaw & Michael Kennedy, and text for 1st work ([2] p.) inserted in container
Performer Sir Adrian Boult, conductor. In the 1st work: Norma Burrowes, Sheila Armstrong, Susan Longfield, Marie Hayward, Alfreda Hodgson, Gloria Jennings, Shirley Minty, Meriel Dickinson, Ian Partridge, Bernard Dickerson, Wynford Evans, Kenneth Bowen, Richard Angas, John Carol Case, John Noble, Christopher Keyte, vocal soloists ; London Philharmonic Orchestra. In the 2nd and 4th works: London Symphony Orchestra. In the 3rd and 5th works: New Philharmonia Orchestra. In the 6th work: Hugh Bean, violin ; New Philharmonia Orchestra
Event Recorded in Kingsway Hall, London, Nov. 5, 1969, Aug. 8 and 12-13, 1970, Feb. 14-16, 1968; and in No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, Jan. 23, 1968 and Mar. 1, 1967
Notes Sung in English (1st work)
Hard copy version record
Subject Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.
Suites (Orchestra)
Folk songs, English -- Instrumental settings
Orchestral music.
Rhapsodies (Music)
String orchestra music.
Violin with orchestra.
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra
Folk songs, English -- Instrumental settings
Orchestral music
Rhapsodies (Music)
String orchestra music
Suites (Orchestra)
Violin with orchestra
Genre/Form Streaming audio
sound recordings.
Suites
Sound recordings
Rhapsodies (Music)
Musical settings
Instrumental settings
Instrumental settings.
Musical settings.
Rhapsodies (Music)
Sound recordings.
Suites.
Arrangements instrumentaux.
Mises en musique.
Rhapsodies (Musique)
Enregistrements sonores.
Suites (Musique)
Form Streaming audio
Author Boult, Adrian, 1889-1983.
Burrowes, Norma.
Armstrong, Sheila.
Longfield, Susan.
Hayward, Marie.
Hodgson, Alfreda.
Jennings, Gloria.
Minty, Shirley.
Dickinson, Meriel.
Partridge, Ian, 1938-
Dickerson, Bernard.
Evans, Wynford.
Bowen, Kenneth, 1932-2018.
Angas, Richard.
Case, John Carol.
Noble, John, 1931-2008.
Keyte, Christopher.
Bean, Hugh.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Serenade to music
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. English folk song suite.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Norfolk rhapsody, no. 1.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Fantasia on Greensleeves.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. In the Fen Country.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Lark ascending.
London Philharmonic Orchestra.
London Symphony Orchestra.
New Philharmonia Orchestra.
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