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These famous old performances have been remastered to generally good effect, offering marginally greater clarity and depth and firmer bass, even if the differences aren’t
We don’t need to spend too much time here. This is a good, well played, but not great performance of the original version of Ralph
Although billed as “early” chamber music, it’s worth noting that most of this music was written between Ralph Vaughan Williams’ mid-20s (1898) and mid-30s (1906),
Composer-led recordings are always historically interesting even if they vary in musical quality. Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 1937 version of his wrathful Fourth Symphony has the
This two-disc set derives from two concerts, one given on October 15, 1938, and the other, featuring the Bach and Haydn items, from a War
Adrian Boult’s first recording of “A London Symphony” presents a brasher and edgier view of the music than his EMI remake from 15 years later.
Adrian Boult’s 1953 recording of A Sea Symphony provides a comparatively early example of his mastery of Vaughan Williams’ music (discographically speaking, not in terms
This callow, boxy reissue of a 1959 recording on Westminster ought never to have been produced. It’s a cheap performance of a work that requires
Over the decades there have been numerous recordings that contain one or more of the works featured on this sturdy and comprehensive collection of “choral
Vaughan Williams’ “Falstaff” opera probably will never become a repertory staple owing to its relentlessly undramatic character. It has all of the local color that
