Lyrita Classics - Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams, Grainger, Holst, Warlock, Harty, Berners, Balfe

* Philharmonia Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
** New Philharmonia Orchestra, Andrew Davis, conductor
*** London Philharmonic Orchestra, Myer Fredman, conductor
† London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
†† New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vernon Handley, conductor
††† London Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
‡ English Chamber Orchestra, Imogen Holst, conductor
‡‡ London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, conductor

Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 2007 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: SRCD.336
UPC/EAN: 5020926033628
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: ADD
Number of discs: 1
Total playing time: 72.15
Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

Track 1: Recorded at Kingsway Hall, 22 January 1979, Producer: Andrew Cornall, Engineer: Kenneth Wilkinson
Tracks 2, 3: Recorded at Walthamstow, 5 January 1974
Track 4: Recorded at Walthamstow, 6 January 1970
Tracks 5, 14: Recorded at Kingsway Hall, 2 August 1978, Producer: Andrew Cornall, Engineer: James Lock
Track 6: Henry Wood Hall, 22 September 1976, Producer: Richard Beswick, Engineer: Malcolm Hogg
Track 7: Recorded at Kingsway Hall, April 1976
Tracks 8 - 13: Recorded at Watford, 6 September 1978, Producer: Tom Mowrey, Engineer: John Dunkerley
Tracks 15 - 18: No recording information available
Track 19: Recorded at Walthamstow, January 1968

"Ralph Vaughan Williams evolved a highly personal sound derived in varying degrees from impressionism, folk song modality, Tudor church music and a very personal response to the English language. He had served a long and hard-fought apprenticeship before he succeeded in developing a technique which would allow him to articulate his strikingly personal musical vision, and allowed him to find himself as a composer ...

1 The Bohemian Girl: Galop * Michael Balfe 1.26
Variations on an Original Theme ‘Enigma’ Op. 36 ** Edward Elgar
2 X. Dorabella 2.41
3 Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in C Op. 39 ** Edward Elgar 5.41
4 A Village Romeo and Juliet: The Walk to the Paradise Garden *** Frederick Delius 10.49
5 Shepherd’s Hey † Percy Grainger 2.11
6 The Immovable Do † Percy Grainger 5.04
7 An Irish Symphony: The Fair-Day †† Hamilton Harty 3.01
Capriol, Suite for full orchestra ††† Peter Warlock 9.47
8 Basse-Danse 1.32
9 Pavane 1.58
10 Tordion 0.55
11 Bransles 1.58
12 Pieds-en-l’air 2.14
13 Mattachins 1.10
14 The Triumph of Neptune: Hornpipe † Lord Berners 1.50
St. Paul’s Suite for strings Op. 29 No. 2 ‡ Gustav Holst 13.28
15 Jig 3.29
16 Ostinato 2.00
17 Intermezzo 4.06
18 Finale "The Dargason" 3.53
19 Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis ‡‡ Ralph Vaughan Williams 16.08