Big Boxes: Handley’s Second-Place RVW Symphonies

David Hurwitz

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Handley’s Vaughan Williams cycle vies with Slatkin’s on RCA for […]

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Recording Details:

Reference Recording: Symphonies: Slatkin (RCA)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, RALPH:
Symphonies 1-9; English Folk Song Suite; Fantasia on Greensleeves; Tallis Fantasia; Flos Campi; Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus; Oboe Concerto; Partita for double string orchestra; Serenade to Music (choral version)

Conductor: Handley, Vernon
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Record Label: Classics for Pleasure - 5 75760 2
Medium: CD

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