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US Mall 1 - Vaughan Williams: Fantasies; The Lark Ascending; Five Variants
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List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $9.80
Your Save: $ 7.18 ( 42% )
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Manufacturer: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028941459527
Label: Decca
Manufacturer: Decca
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Decca
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Decca
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful!
Comment: Everytime I purchase a CD through Amazon and its vendors, the service and content surprise me! When studying, the works inspire me!
Customer Rating:
Summary: SUPERB!!!
Comment: This is a beautiful CD. Vaughn Williams is my favorite classical composer and Neville Marriner's interpretation of his music is perfect. All of the tracks on this CD are fabulous!
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Summary: Iona Brown was very special
Comment: The Iona Brown recording of "Lark" here is famous in Britain and justifiably so. Brown, who died in 2004, grew up in the English countryside and had a deep experience of what Vaughan Williams was trying to capture. The rest of the CD is lush, crisp and wonderful -- the Academy's renowned strings at their early 70s peak. It's an analog recording (1972) and the sound is terrific. I don't think this recording has ever been out of print -- how many thousands of us owned the LP and bought the CD as soon as it came out.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Superb
Comment: This is an essential recording for any classical music collection. I've probably played this CD a thousand times, and I never grow tired of it. Wonderful music beautifully played - buy it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: this England!
Comment: It is perhaps impossible to hear Vaughan Williams' short works performed more beautifully and unforgettably than in this 1972 ADRM/Argo recording. Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields acquit themselves above reproach. Vaughan Williams - you love him or hate him - must be loved for his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, that haunting and almost religiously uplifting setting of Medieval plainsong that is capable of shifting a driver to the side of the road in open-jawed amazement at the sheer evocative beauty of it.
Greensleeves is emblematic of the English countryside and its melody, easily dismissed as the primped-up stuff of 'Rule Brittania' shops but so much more worthwhile than all that. Iona Brown's violin on 'The Lark Ascending' sounds as though crafted to play this piece once - enduringly- and then tossed like unused Eucharistic wine.
How, one wonders in aesthetic and rationally unguarded moments, could a nation that produced such music have lost an Empire? Or, more accurately, how could a people capable of such lyricism have done otherwise than believed - for an historical blink of an eye - in its own superiority?
That a coterie of *English* musicians should produce the definitive recording of these works is poetically appropriate.
That listeners of many tongues should listen and wonder at Williams' temperamental genius is simply a musical fact on the ground.
Begin Vaughan Williams with this recording. The rest are derivative.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful!
Comment: Everytime I purchase a CD through Amazon and its vendors, the service and content surprise me! When studying, the works inspire me!
Customer Rating:
Summary: SUPERB!!!
Comment: This is a beautiful CD. Vaughn Williams is my favorite classical composer and Neville Marriner's interpretation of his music is perfect. All of the tracks on this CD are fabulous!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Iona Brown was very special
Comment: The Iona Brown recording of "Lark" here is famous in Britain and justifiably so. Brown, who died in 2004, grew up in the English countryside and had a deep experience of what Vaughan Williams was trying to capture. The rest of the CD is lush, crisp and wonderful -- the Academy's renowned strings at their early 70s peak. It's an analog recording (1972) and the sound is terrific. I don't think this recording has ever been out of print -- how many thousands of us owned the LP and bought the CD as soon as it came out.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Superb
Comment: This is an essential recording for any classical music collection. I've probably played this CD a thousand times, and I never grow tired of it. Wonderful music beautifully played - buy it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: this England!
Comment: It is perhaps impossible to hear Vaughan Williams' short works performed more beautifully and unforgettably than in this 1972 ADRM/Argo recording. Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields acquit themselves above reproach. Vaughan Williams - you love him or hate him - must be loved for his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, that haunting and almost religiously uplifting setting of Medieval plainsong that is capable of shifting a driver to the side of the road in open-jawed amazement at the sheer evocative beauty of it.
Greensleeves is emblematic of the English countryside and its melody, easily dismissed as the primped-up stuff of 'Rule Brittania' shops but so much more worthwhile than all that. Iona Brown's violin on 'The Lark Ascending' sounds as though crafted to play this piece once - enduringly- and then tossed like unused Eucharistic wine.
How, one wonders in aesthetic and rationally unguarded moments, could a nation that produced such music have lost an Empire? Or, more accurately, how could a people capable of such lyricism have done otherwise than believed - for an historical blink of an eye - in its own superiority?
That a coterie of *English* musicians should produce the definitive recording of these works is poetically appropriate.
That listeners of many tongues should listen and wonder at Williams' temperamental genius is simply a musical fact on the ground.
Begin Vaughan Williams with this recording. The rest are derivative.
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