
This is one of the gems of the Vaughan Williams discography. Job was a Boult specialty: he recorded it three times, and this last version
André Previn recorded an excellent “London Symphony” for RCA as part of his complete cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies, and although conventional wisdom holds that
For most home listeners, this superb Grammy-winning recording will likely sound better in stereo than it does in multichannel format. One of the peculiarities of
Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G minor never achieved the repertoire status of, say, Britten’s Missa Brevis in D or Requiems by Fauré or Howells or
Neville Marriner’s Vaughan Williams recordings for the Argo label were always good, solid recommendations. You won’t find the fullness of tone and passion in the
Although written for different types of propaganda films, each of these three Vaughan Williams scores retains high artistry and a sense of elevated purpose. In
André Previn’s Walton First Symphony remains the performance by which all others must be measured. Dating from the mid-1960s, at the start of Previn’s highly
Maybe this is just a subjective impression, but it seems that Vaughan Williams’ choral works are going out of fashion. A couple of decades ago
This set of lovely vocal music by three British masters continues the very welcome re-release on CD of Lyrita Recorded Editions. The Holst work is
This beautifully played and engineered disc contains three of Vaughan Williams’ most mellifluous pieces. Telarc already has an excellent coupling of the Tallis Fantasia and