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This interesting and enjoyable program is worth having for the three least-familiar works, each enjoying (I believe) its CD premiere. Frederic Austin is best known
David Willcocks was director of the King’s College Choir when stereo recording was in its Golden Age. American listeners first heard his recordings on Argo,
Before Broadway and pop record charts, the best songwriters wrote tunes for singers with real–as opposed to electronically enhanced–voices. Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of
Richard Hickox delivers an exciting, very swift performance of the Fourth Symphony’s outer movements, along the lines of the composer’s own or, more to the
This disc offers a broad selection of Vaughan Williams’ chamber music written between 1912 and 1952, and it illustrates how the composer maintained an overall
Something just isn’t right with Hickox and Chandos. The last few releases in this cycle have been mediocre to dreadful, and it’s difficult to understand
This performance could have been a serious contender despite very strong competition, but it’s sabotaged by incompetently engineered sound that makes normal listening a chore.
Adrian Boult was closely associated with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ music, recording most of his major works, including Job four times and the complete symphonies twice.
Naxos has made some very fine recordings in New Zealand, and some not so fine. Unfortunately this new release falls into the latter category. James
Transfer to SACD adds only a certain background muddiness to what originally was a not-very-well-recorded collection of not-very-well-conducted music. As noted in my original review,
