Vaughan Williams - Orchestral Works - 2CDs

Description

A fine collection of the composer's orchestral output compiled from 1957-94 Decca recordings in 1999. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner in the first 6 works, plus the New Queen's Hall Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth & London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult.

Fantasia on Greensleeves

English Folk Song Suite: I. March: Seventeen come Sunday, II. Intermezzo: My bonny boy & III. March: Folk songs from Somerset

Oboe Concerto - soloist Celia Nicklin

Concerto Grosso

Romance (for Harmonica, Strings & Piano) - soloist Tommy Reilly

The Lark Ascending (for Violin And Orchestra) - soloist Iona Brown

Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus' - New Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 - New Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth

Partita for Double String Orchestra - London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult

In the Fen Country - New Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - New Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth