Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform one of the mightiest of first symphonies ever written. Vaughan Williams's setting of Walt Whitman creates a very special sense of occasion. The...
Vaughan-Williams / Bbc Symphony Orchestra Symphony No.2 CD1. I. Lento - Allegro Risoluto 2. II. Lento 3. III. Scherzo: Nocturne - Allegro Vivace 4. IV. Finale: Andante Con Moto - Maestoso Alla Marcia...
Vaughan Williams / Gritton / Lso / Hickox Sea Symphony Super-Audio CD1. Allegro Vivace 2. 1. a Song for All Seas, All Ships-Moderato Maestoso 3. 2. on the Beach at Night, Alone-Largo Sostenuto 4. 3...
He was born "with a little silver spoon in his mouth", Ralph Vaughan Williams jokingly said of himself, which made him independent of time-consuming teaching and instrumentalist activities that...
Essential listening... "fabulously assured"... "unequivocally excellent", are just a few of the critical superlatives earned by Martyn Brabbins's magnificent Vaughan Williams symphony cycle. In this,...