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Music : Vaughan Williams - Complete Symphonies
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Vaughan Williams - Complete Symphonies by: London Philharmonic Orchestra List Price: £27.99 CD-Charts Price: £17.98 You Save: £10.01 (36%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724357576024 Format: Box set Label: Cfp Manufacturer: Cfp Number Of Discs: 7 Publisher: Cfp Release Date: September 09, 2002 Studio: Cfp Sales Rank: 2257 Related Items:
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 Rating: - A bargain introduction to this music.I had seen many of the performances in this set recommended separately so to have them all together in one set at such a low price is great. The sound is very good and even if you only like half the music on these CDs, this is still a fantastic bargain. Rating: - Top recommendation These recordings can withstand comparison with the very best. These consistently idiomatic readings will provide many hours of pleasurable listening. A Sea Symphony is a wonderful, moving work, capable of stirring the listener profoundly when given a performance of the conviction evident here. All the works in this set are finely played, faithfully and understandingly conducted and both are recorded in excellent, well-balanced sound. If you like Vaughan Williams I also recommend tracking down The Lark Ascending and The Pilgrim's Progress. Rating: - RESTORES ONE'S FAITH IN HONEST MUSIC-MAKINGThank God for Tod Handley. I vividly recall a year or two back, feeling particularly jaundiced after a succession of glitzy, superficial concerts by conductors far starrier and younger, having my faith in real music making restored by a Handley concert which included a scintillating Schubert Little C Major and a profoundly moving VW Sea Symphony. That work, of course, is the springboard for this cycle of complete VW symphonies. And a very satisfying journey through this inspiring canon of nine it is, too. Handley's affinity with English music needs no reiterating, but his relationship with Vaughan Williams in particular is a special one. More than most, he is alive to the changing and developing nature of the different symphonies ... Read More: Rating:  - Vaughan Williams as Nature Mystic and TranscendentalistVaughan Williams Symphonies Vernon Handley. This set of Vaughan Williams Symphonies is an obvious bargain. To start with it has the largest amount of music on it of any box set of Vaughan Williams symphonies, including not only the 50 minute Orchestral Ballet Job a Masque for Dancing but a representative selection of the composers other orchestral works. The performances are all good, so if you simply want a comprehensive survey of Vaughan Williams at a budget price this is the set to go for. However, how does it stand up to closer scrutiny, with particular reference to the symphonies? Vernon Handley is considered to be the natural successor to Adrian Boult, whose interpretations of these works are still viewed ... Read More: Rating: - ExcellentThis box set contains all of the symphonies and most of VW's well known works with the notable exception of 'The Lark Ascending'. Handley is renoun for being the natural successor to Boult, and he handles the baton well, giving a clarity and consistancy to this cycle. I have to note the superb quality of the recording - very clean and unmuddy, allowing the listener to unpick the interweaving orchestral layers. Without any doubt this represents very good value for money, giving seven CD's for the price of one CD on the high street. So, if you are updating your collection from vinyl or cassette, go for this one. If you want and introduction to a great composer, you will not find a better collection. Go on, buy and enjoy - you ... Read More: |
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