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. Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
Search: The Banks of Green Willow - Butterworth
by: London Symphony Orchestra
Release Date March 03, 2003
I loved this recording on cd and its even better on sacd. The history of this performance is well documented on other sites and in the cd booklet, so I wont repeat it. What i will add is that the original version seems to capture so much more of the fabianism that inspired HG Wells and in turn, Vaughan Williams. Its dissonances and darknesses capture Edwardian London with affection but without sentimentality: this is the London of Dickensian poverty as much as of metropolitan splendour. Not a second of the "extra" fourteen minutes is superfluous, - indeed, i wanted the disc to go on, - and the last performance of any edition of the London which made me want that was the glorious Barbirolli recording (on Pye/Nixa) from the ... Read More:
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