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Music : Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.6/In the Fen Country/On Wenlock Edge
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.6/In the Fen Country/On Wenlock Edge from: EMI |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724355676221 Label: EMI Manufacturer: EMI Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: EMI Release Date: January 25, 1999 Running Time: 69 minutes Studio: EMI Sales Rank: 144073 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Here's one of the most desirable instalments yet in Bernard Haitink's patient and always thought-provoking VW symphony cycle for EMI. The performance of the visionary Sixth Symphony impresses in its profound concentration and innate musicality: not only is Haitink's pacing infallible (nowhere more so than towards the first movement, where his noble handling of the secondary melody's final full flowering--once familiar as the theme from the 1970s TV series A Family at War--is as near to perfection as could be imagined), he also galvanises the London Philharmonic to give of their considerable best. Of DDD rivals, only Vernon Handley's exemplary Liverpool account on mid-price EMI Eminence boasts the same level of insight and accomplishment (indeed, his closing bars are, if anything, even more searching than the Dutchman's). The rest of Haitink's programme, however, effortlessly lifts his CD into the indispensable class. In the intensely evocative song-cycle On Wenlock Edge (which sets six poems from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad), tenor Ian Bostridge has never been better, and the sublimely articulate orchestral playing both here and in the lovely, youthful "symphonic impression" In the Fen Country is an absolute joy. The sound is marvellously realistic throughout. --Andrew Achenbach Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Another jewel in the Haitink/Vaughan Williams cycleThe splendid Emi cycle of the RVW symphonies under Haitink is, possibly,the most distressingly slow release in the history : I mean, the first cd ( the "Antartica" dates from 1985 and we're still waiting for what is supposed to be the last one ( 8&9) ! . Perhaps it wasn't intended to be a cycle, but the quality of the results sort of forced EMI to go on ....slowly. What I really like is that Haitink approaches Vaughan Williams like the 20th century master symphonist he is: he skips the idea of the "all-British"phenomenon and puts RVW in the mainstream symphonic canon , where this wonderful music belongs. Probably some British reviewers would say that these are not the most "idiomatic" performances, but I believe that Haitink has the ... Read More: |
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