There will be no re-ups! So, get the music while it’s still "in place". 😉
This thread will be devoted to the music of British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams,
on account of his popularity among film music lovers. I am going to focus on single
releases rather than "boxed" editions, so inevitably there will be multiple overlaps.
To save time, I am not going to introduce the individual albums, you can google
information on these works and albums on your own. All albums are in FLAC
format, my own rips, and come with artwork & booklet whenever possible.
MUSIC NOT COVERED IN THIS THREAD
The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams – Thread 213622
The Complete Symphonies (Bryden Thomson cycle, LSO) – http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=211365&highlight=
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) left a varied oeuvre that includes orchestral works, songs, operas, and various
choral compositions. While primarily drawing on the rich tradition of English folksong and hymnody, Vaughan Williams produced
well-loved works that fit into larger European traditions and gained worldwide popularity.
Vaughan Williams, who lost his father early in life, was cared for by his mother. Related, through his mother, to both Charles
Darwin and the Wedgwoods of pottery fame, he grew up without financial worries. He studied history and music at Trinity College,
Cambridge, and finished up at the Royal College of Music, where he worked with Parry, Wood, and Stanford. In 1897, the year
he married Adeline Fisher, Vaughan Williams traveled to Berlin to study with Max Bruch, also seeking Maurice Ravel as a teacher
several years later, despite the fact that the French composer was three years his junior. In 1903, he started collecting English
folksongs; certain characteristics of English folk music, particularly its modal tonalities, in many ways informed his approach to
composition. Vaughan Williams further developed his style while working as editor of the English Hymnal, which was completed
in 1906. His work on the English Hymnal went beyond editing, for he contributed several new hymn tunes, most notably the
Sine nomine, the tune for the hymn For All the Saints. The composer’s interest in and knowledge of traditional English music
is reflected in his song cycle On Wenlock Edge (1909), based on selections from A.E. Housman’s immensely popular volume
of poetry A Shropshire Lad. In his Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, composed in 1910, Vaughan Williams introduced
antiphonal effects within the context of modal tonality, juxtaposing consonant, but unrelated, triads. Composed in 1914,
his Symphony No. 2, "A London Symphony" brings to life, with great charm, the sounds of London from dawn to dusk.
That year, Vaughan Williams also wrote his pastoral The Lark Ascending, for violin and orchestra. When World War I broke
out, the 41-year-old composer enlisted as an orderly in the medical corps, becoming famous for organizing choral singing
and other entertainment in the trenches. He was commissioned from the ranks, ending his war service as an artillery officer.
The war interrupted the composer’s work but did not, it seems, disrupt the inner continuity of his creative development.
The Symphony No. 3 ("Pastoral"), composed in 1922, conjures up a familiar world, effectively incorporating folksong
motives into sonorities created by sequential chords. While critics detected pessimistic moods and themes in the later
symphonies, ascribing a shift to a darker vision to the composer’s alleged general pessimism about the world,
Vaughan Williams refused to attach any programmatic content to these works. However, the composer created
a convincing musical description of a desolate world in his Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia Antarctica" (1952), which was
inspired by the request to write the music for the film Scott of the Antarctic. In addition to his symphonies,
Vaughan Williams composed highly acclaimed religious music, as well as works inspired by English spiritual literature,
culminating in his 1951 opera The Pilgrim’s Progress, based on the spiritual classic by John Bunyan. An artist of
extraordinary creative energy, Vaughan Williams continued composing with undiminished powers until his death at 87.
No.1
"Dona Nobis Pacem" / "Sancta Civitas"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
With Christina Pier & Matthew Brook (soloists)
And the Bach & Winchester Cathedral Choirs
Conducted by David Hill
Label: Naxos (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 246 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/jl21ggfkl
No.2
"A Cotswold Romance", "The Death of Tintagiles"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the London Symphony Orchestra
With Rosa Mannion, Thomas Randle & Matthew Brook (soloists)
And the London Philharmonic Choir
Conducted by Richard Hickox
Label: Chandos (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 224 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/ox65dyqxx
No.3
"Symphony No.6", "The Wasps Overture" (+ John Ireland)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams & John Ireland
Played by Alan Rowlands (piano) & Adrian Sims (piano)
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 173 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/isoq2c7qh
No.4
"Symphony No.5" (+ Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten & Edward Elgar
Played by The Oregon Symphony
Conducted by Carlos Kalmar
Label: Pentatone (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 269 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/teuk7nfbq
No.5
"Concerto Accademico", "The Lark Ascending" (+ Edward Elgar)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Edward Elgar
Played by the Orchestra of the Swan
With Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
Conducted by David Curtis
Label: Signum Classics (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 288 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/3n237x55n
To be continued …
"Oboe Concerto", "Six Studies in English Folk Song" (+ Richard Strauss)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Richard Strauss
Played by the London Symphony Orchestra
With Robin Canter (oboe)
Conducted by James Judd
Label: IMP/Carlton (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 227 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/n2m88l2ls
No.7
"An Oxford Elegy", "Flos Campi", "Te Deum", "O Clap Your Hands", "The Old 100th"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the English String Orchestra
With Jack May (narrator) & Roger Best (viola)
And the Christ Church Cathedral Choir
Conducted by Stephen Darlington
Label: Nimbus (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 239 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!sGYnhIIA!-BhPwbR2c1qXDOibrKfNg77FT5VP1ao0W7eBTm7sQes
/>
No.8
"A Sea Symphony (Symphony No.1)"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Hall� Orchestra
With Katherine Broderick (soprano) & Roderick Williams (baritone)
And the Hall� Choir
Conducted by Sir Mark Elder
Label: Hall� (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 261 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/u3vyvq99v
No.9
"Symphony No.4 in F minor", "Symphony No.8 in D minor"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth & Vladimir Jurowski
Label: LPO Live (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 285 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/vrorm4ndb
No.10
"The Wasps: An Aristophanic Suite", "Fantasia on Greensleeves" (+ Edward Elgar)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Edward Elgar
Played by the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Michael Stern
Label: Reference Recordings (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 218 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/rwuvww555
To be continued …
"A Cambridge Mass" (+ Charles Hubert Parry)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Charles Hubert Parry
Played by the New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
With Olivia Robinson (soprano) & Rebecca Lodge (contralto)
And Christopher Bowen (tenor) & Edward Price (baritone)
And The Bach Choir
Conducted by Alan Tongue
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 277 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/l79vdkch0
No.12
"Old King Cole", "Flos Campi", "The Lark Ascending", etc
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Northern Sinfonia of England
With Bradley Creswick (violin)
Conducted by Richard Hickox
Label: EMI (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 263 MB (incl. cover)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!lbAkiD7K!AOnjEVkTb5NhqmIezrOHtGLxRFADRFbvvaz3OXfB5WY
No.13
"Early Songs"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
With Sarah Fox (soprano) & Andrew Staples (tenor)
And Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 180 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/1nqw6yibs
No.14
"Job – A Masque for Dancing" (+ Gustav Holst)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Gustav Holst
Played by The Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Barry Wordsworth
Label: Collins Classics (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 249 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/g0zq9yvnq
No.15
"Songs for Mixed Chorus"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performed by The Joyful Company of Singers
Conducted by Peter Broadbent
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 212 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/q6iq32pjj
No.16
"String Quartet No.1", "String Quartet No.2", "Phantasy Quintet
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by The English String Quartet
With Norbert Blume (viola)
Label: Unicorn Kanchana (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 253 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/5lanh8qcz
To be continued …
Thank you so much for your hard work, wimpel69!
Unfortunately the links for No.7 & No.12 don’t work.
Thank you so much for your hard work, wimpel69!
Unfortunately the links for No.7 & No.12 don’t work.
Links replaced.
"Riders to the Sea", "Household Music", "Flos Campi Suite"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Northern Sinfonia of England
With Philip Dukes (viola)
And the Sinfonia Chorus
Conducted by Richard Hickox
Label: Chandos (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 313 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/dky365klh
No.18
"Symphony No.6" (+ Johannes Brahms)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Johannes Brahms
Played by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
Label: Orfeo (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 328 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!RTJhVRgQ!yLfmmqkx3r168XFoxejIIfU_MT21P9r7KkHtgFNAebc
No.19
"The Wasps – Complete Score"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Hall� Orchestra
With Henry Goodman (narrator)
And the Hall� Chorus
Conducted by Sir Mark Elder
Label: Hall� (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 417 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/fe5pokct8
To be continued …
As a Ralph Vaughan Williams fan I appreciate your effort!
"A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No.3)", "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis", "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Hall� Orchestra
With Sarah Fox (soprano)
Conducted by Sir Mark Elder
Label: Hall� (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 333 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!weYV1bKS!_56crNYtaozQgJh_X3vvXygr6h4ltdSiVDeLcUKuvkw
No.21
"Songs of Travel", "Three Poems of Whitman", "Linden Lea" (+ Charles Stanford)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Performed by Anthony Michaels-Moore (baritone) & Michael Pollock (piano)
Label: Opus Arte (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 274 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/k0kifz02q
No.22
"Violin Sonata" (+ Peter Racine Fricker, Alan Rawsthorne)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Peter Racine Fricker & Alan Rawthorne
Performed by Susanne Stanzeleit (violin) & Julian Jacobson (piano)
Label: Cala (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 310 MB
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/jgluss8uc
To be continued …
"Concerto for Two Pianos", "Symphony No.5 in D"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Musikkollegium Winterthur
With Yaara Tal (piano) & Andreas Groethuysen (piano)
Conducted by Douglas Boyd
Label: Sony Classical (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 255 MB (incl. cover & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/39pyd7q33
No.24
"Hugh, the Drover"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Corydon Orchestra
With the Corydon Choir
Conducted by Matthew Best
Label: Hyperion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 381 MB (incl. cover & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/dkaeridpr
No.25
"The Fat Knight Suite", "Henry V Overture", Serenade to Music"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conducted by Martin Yates
Label: Dutton Laboratories (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 364 MB (incl. cover & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/kald4bpv3
To be continued …
"The First Nowell", "On Christmas Night", "Fantasia on Christmas Carols"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the City of London Sinfonia
With Sarah Fox (soprano) & Roderick Williams (baritone)
And The Joyful Company of Singers
Conducted by Richard Hickox
Label: Chandos (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 251 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/ulg9rkhtt
No.27
"Hodie – A Christmas Cantata", "Fantasia on Christmas Carols"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
With Janice Watson (soprano), Peter Hoare (tenor) & Stephen Gadd (baritone)
And the Guildford Choral Society
Conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton
Label: Naxos (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 290 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!ZCpnURyC!QUGvN3ntY58yXnDol5nvKdf2CQq0Ea-fEngKrLzFzx8
No.28
"Symphony No.5," "Dona Nobis Pacem"
Music Composed and Conducted by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the BBC Symphony & London Philharmonic Orchestras
With Ren�e Flynn (soprano) & Roy Henderson (baritone)
And the BBC Symphony Chorus
Label: Somm (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Mono
File Size: 172 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/hiccp17dw
To be continued …
"Five Tudor Portraits", "Thanksgiving for Victory"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the BBC Symphony & BBC Northern Symphony Orchestras
With Elsie Sudaby (soprano), Felicity Harrison (contralto) & Peter Walker (baritone)
And the BBC Chorus & BBC Northern Singers
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Label: Intaglio (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Mono/Stereo
File Size: 242 MB
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/giflan6ns
No.30
"A London Symphony (Symphony No.2)", "Oboe Concerto"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Hall� Orchestra
With St�phane Rancourt (oboe)
Conducted by Sir Mark Elder
Label: Hall� (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 214 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/dpcslq96x
No.31
"Three Nocturnes", "A Road All Paved with Stars", "Stricken Peninsula", "Four Last Songs"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra
With Roderick Williams (baritone) & Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
Conducted by Martyn Brabbins
Label: Dutton Laboratories (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 277 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/7dh80efo0
To be continued …
"Symphony No.4" (+ Arthur Bliss, Edward Elgar)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arthur Bliss & Edward Elgar
Played by the BBC Symphony & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras
Conducted by Norman Del Mar & Malcolm Arnold
Label: BBC Music Magazine (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 361 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!YPpXHJSL!UawJEI-r3HBw3EH-JtBrFgtQRiO9A7Jxd0IvIFIm7gk
No.33
"Symphony No.4", "Symphony No.5"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the BBC Symphony & Hall� Orchestras
Conducted by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Sir John Barbirolli
Label: Dutton Laboratories (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Mono
File Size: 279 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!8WwG1aiR!GSJ3u2VV3tx0q5yz4L1-DBIs2jk17N0CG_jAcuAFbr8
No.34
"On Wenlock Edge" (+ Frederick Delius, George Butterworth & Gerald Finzi)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius, George Butterworth & Gerald Finzi
Played by various orchestras and conductors
Label: BBC Music Magazine (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 241 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/6bzbpmzvd
To be continued …
"Mass in G minor", "Three Hymns", "A Vision of Aeroplanes", etc
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performed by The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Conducted by Timothy Brown
Label: Naxos (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 255 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/a63k7bnt7
No.36
"Three Impressions (The Solent)", "Four Hymns", "The Mayor of Casterbridge"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
With Roland Wood (baritone) & Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Conducted by Paul Daniel
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 313 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/ck25f08cd
No.37
"The Sons of Light", "Willow Wood", "Toward the Unknown Region", "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
With Roderick Williams (baritone)
And the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Conducted by David Lloyd-Jones
Label: Naxos (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 260 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!EXoTwaDI!OIZsPT4DZrrw7Ezs_PeEcn0AWAWOQaShH5yGYGnrfw0
To be continued …
"Symphony No.5", "Tuba Concerto", "Sea Songs: March"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Brandenburg State Philharmonic Orchestra of Frankfurt
With Walter Hilgers (tuba)
Conducted by Walter Hilgers & Michael Luig
Label: Genuin (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 209 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/ghf43gsbz
No.39
"Piano Quintet", "String Quartet in C minor", "Quintet in D", "Three Preludes", etc
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by The Nash Ensemble
Label: Hyperion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 523 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/0xv9w3k3o
No.40
"A London Symphony (Symphony No.2", "The Lark Ascending"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
With Barry Giffiths (violin)
Conducted by Andr� Previn
Label: Telarc (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 189 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/w9o18tmm8
To be continued …
Thank you once again, Wimpel!
Tells you everything about FFS you ever wanted to know. And more … 🙁
"Symphony No.7, Sinfonia Antartica"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
With Roger Allam (narrator) & Dominique Labelle (soprano)
Conducted by Raymond Leppard
Label: Koss Classics (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 232 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/u1zyy1t5r
No.42
"Symphony No.4", "Symphony No.6"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Roger Norrington
Label: Decca Classical (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 312 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!4PwT1JjI!Za1QPDzy0w4M3qwF4m7voR03mb4DpaPsqPLRvO2cARY
No.43
"Songs of Travel", "Concerto Accademico", "The Lark Ascending", "Six Studies", etc
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by Matthew Trusler (violin) & Iain Burnside (piano)
With Roland Brown (baritone)
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 292 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/jzzs1hxgt
To be continued …
"Symphony No.9 in E minor" (+ Alan Hovhaness, Wallingford Riegger, Paul Creston)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alan Hovhaness, Wallingford Riegger & Paul Creston
Played by the Leopold Stokowski Orchestra
Conducted by Leopold Stokowski
Label: Cala (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 301 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/nqc2z3xdw
No.45
"Folk Songs of the Four Seasons", "In Windsor Forest"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by The Dmitri Ensemble
With the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
And The English Voices
Conducted by Sir David Willcocks
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 208MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/h0tcl8jee
No.46
"Piano Concerto" (+ Frederick Delius, Gerald Finzi)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius & Gerald Finzi
Played by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
With Piers Lane (piano)
Conducted by Vernon Handley
Label: EMI (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 195 MB
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/tch7awqcz
To be continued …
Excellent uploads!
Thank you so much, wimpel69!
"Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra" (+ William Mathias)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams & William Mathias
Played by the Ulster Orchestra
With Mark Bebbington (piano)
Conducted by George Vass
Label: Somm (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 327 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/ose3qqxne
No.48
"Four Barnes Songs", "Four Last Songs", "Three Poems by Whitman", "Poems by Fredegond Shove"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performed by Peter Savidge (baritone) & Roger Steptoe (piano)
Label: Trax Classique (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 175 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/d10eh6b63
No.49
"A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No.3)", "Symphony No.5"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan
Played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Roger Norrington
Label: Decca Classical (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 294 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/ppixvqk8n
To be continued …
(ps. The version represented here of The Oxford Elegy remains THE finest recording of the work I have ever heard).
"Bucolic Suite", "Dark Pastoral", "Folk Songs of the Four Seasons (Suite), "Serenade"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
With Guy Johnston (cello)
Conducted by Martin Yates
Label: Dutton Laboratories (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 323 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/94z1a6nr7
No.51
"The Bridal Day", "Epithalamion"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by The Britten Sinfonia
With John Hopkins (speaker) & Philip Smith (baritone)
And The Joyful Company of Singers
Conducted by Alan Tongue
Label: Albion(My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 370 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/wtj3l3eol
No.52
"The Poisoned Kiss"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
With Pamela Helen-Stephen (mezzo), Roderick Williams (baritone) & others
And the Adrian Partington Singers
Conducted by Richard Hickox
Label: Chandos Records (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 503 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/vwjwc2jxb
To be continued …
"Charterhouse Suite" (+ Frank Bridge, John Ireland, Haydn Wood, Geoffrey Bush, etc)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams (and others)
Played by the English Northern Philharmonia
Conducted by David Lloyd-Jones
Label: Naxos (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 305 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!cLwmSSiT!sPXccpH1qvICzycVo-3pXISeHfkOyDRKmrRhKC45m8Q
/>
No.54
"Flos Campi Suite, "Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra", "Two Hymn-Tune Preludes", etc
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta
With Frederick Riddle (viola)
And the Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir
Conducted by George Hurst
Label: Chandos Records (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 271 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/oyh2pfa3z
No.55
"Symphony No.6", "Dona Nobis Pacem"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Utah Symphony Orchestra
With Blanche Christensen (soprano) & William Metcalf (baritone)
Conducted by Maurice Abravanel
Label: Vanguard Classics (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 301 MB (incl. cover)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/kms4wqs68
To be continued …
"Symphony No.5", "Symphony No.8"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Hall� Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Mark Elder
Label: Hall� (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 258 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/2ryk6rta6
No.57
"Sir John in Love"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Philharmonia Orchestra
With Roderick Jones (Sir John Falstaff), Pamela Bowden (Mrs. Quickly) a.o.
And the Sadler’s Wells Chour
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Label: Lyrita (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Mono
File Size: 387 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/e40hohwpe
No.58
"Tallis Fantasia", "A Little Piano Book", "Introduction & Fugue", "Suite of Short Pieces", etc
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by Mark Bebbington & Rebeca Ormodia (pianos)
Label: Somm (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 211 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/z27324nfu
To be continued …
"Concerto for Bass Tuba" (+ Edward Gregson, Roger Steptoe & John Golland)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Gregson, Roger Steptoe & John Golland
Played by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia
With James Gourlay (tuba)
Conducted by Gavin Sutherland
Label: Naxos (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 285 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/hfwewfrze
No.60
"Five Tudor Portraits", "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the London Symphony Orchestra
With Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano) & John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Conducted by Richard Hickox
Label: Chandos Records (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 241 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/jw5ar9dv8
No.61
"Tallis Fantasia", "In the Fen Country", "Partita for String Orchestra", "Norfolk Rhapsody No.1", "English Folk-Song Suite"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Conducted by Sir Neville Marriner
Label: Philips (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 281 MB (incl. cover)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/ozupkio7y
To be continued …
"Merciless Beauty", "Ten Blake Songs", "Along the Field", "On Wenlock Edge"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by The Nash Ensemble
With John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Label: Hyperion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 247 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/6poi7ukzu
No.63
"String Quartet No.2", "Phantasy Quintet", "Violin Sonata", Six Studies", "The Lake in the Mountains"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by The Nash Ensemble
Label: Hyperion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 262 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/uslxylkx2
No.64
"The Pilgrim’s Progress"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
With John Noble (tenor) & John Carol Case (baritone)
And the London Philharmonic Choir
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Label: EMI (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 726 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/wmqflda2a
To be continued …
Regards.
"Folk-Song Arrangements", "Six Studies in English Folk-Song (Viola)"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performed by Robert Tear (baritone) & Daphne Ibbott (piano)
With Philip Ledger (piano) & Hugh Bean (violin)
And Jean Stewart (viola)
Label: EMI (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 237 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!8LoFiITD!_E-0EtB9XAz8usYeR6BS43D_YMvXD1b737MLJjB5QHk
/>
No.66
Songs from "Hugh the Drover", "Sir John in Love" & "The Pilgrim’s Progress"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performed by Sarah Fox (soprano) & Juliette Pochin (mezzo-soprano)
And Andrew Staples (tenor) & Roderick Williams (baritone)
With Iain Burnside (piano)
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 207 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/37myit2g5
No.67
"Symphony No.5 (arr. Mullinar)", "Tallis Fantasia (arr. Jacobson)"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played Anthony Goldstone (piano) & Caroline Clemmow (piano)
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 174 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/5xh0rpw18
To be continued …
Just MARVELOUS!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Many thanks, wimpel69! 🙂
"Henry V Overture (band version)" (+ Malcolm Arnold, Dean Goffin, Gustav Holst, Granville Bantock)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Dean Goffin, Gustav Holst & Granville Bantock
Played the Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Conducted by Peter Parkes & Garry Cutt
Label: Chandos Records (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 292 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/a460i8wjy
No.69
"Folk-Song Arrangements"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performed by The Deller Consort
With Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) & Desmond Dupr� (lute)
Label: Vanguard (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 258 MB (incl. cover)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/kk6mle7m4
No.70
"A London Symphony (Symphony No.2)", "Symphony No.6", "Prelude & Fugue"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Vernon Handley
Label: EMI (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 374 MB
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!xCIlTbqT!OV_wJ_tAesBw058BlXshPV-Bo4QcneDzarc2YtBANKM
/>
To be continued …
"A Vaughan Williams Hymnal", "Three Welsh Organ Preludes"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performed by The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
With Christopher Allsop (organ) & Andrew Lamb (organ)
Conducted by Richard Marlow
Label: Conifer (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 306 MB
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/ggs379hml
No.72
"Symphony No.4", "Symphony No.6", "Tallis Fantasia"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Dmitri Mitropoulos & Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski, Dmitri Mitropoulos.
Label: Sony Classical (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 275 MB
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!IP4ShA5Z!eqgRUhJKGjJehThOhyoVoiE-fa7wh_n4yF50IpcR7Fk
/>
No.73
"Symphony No.4", "Symphony No.5", "Symphony No.6", "Tallis Fantasia", "Oboe Concerto", "The Wasps"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played the Royal Philharmonic & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras
Conducted by Paavo Berglund, Sir Alexander Gibson & Constantin Silvestri
Paavo Berglund, Sir Alexander Gibson.
Label: EMI (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 672 MB
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/qdmuvrtpa
To be continued …
"The Garden of Proserpine", "In the Fen Country" (+ Patrick Hadley)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Patrick Hadley
Played the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
With Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano) & Leigh Melrose (baritone)
And The Joyful Company of Singers
Conducted by Paul Daniel
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 245 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/tfhl3y3cj
Unless I’m much mistaken, I’ve now covered all the recorded works of Ralph Vaughan Williams, each at least once (and several many times over). There’s also one complete symphony cycle (LSO, Bryden Thomson), that I posted here: http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=211365&highlight= – as well as his film music, here: http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=213622&highlight= .
Now, I could leave it at that, or post some more alternative versions of his concert works, i.e. IF you’d be interested!
Thank you so much for all your great uploads, Wimpel!
I appreciate your efforts!
Thanks very much for all of the effort that went into this monumental share!
Thanks for all the effort!
Thanks for all the effort!
Sure.
No.75
"Concerto Grosso", "English Folk-Song Suite", "Oboe Concerto", "Romance for Harmonica"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
With Celia Nicklin (oboe) & Tommy Reilly (harmonica)
Conducted by Sir Neville Marriner
Label: Decca (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 238 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!YS52wIDQ!OXREjkIY1Y-mEH5b9UhXHb2Ne7cbqeudMF2AxUqRc-k
"Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No.3)", "Norfolk Rhapsody No.1", "Norfolk Rhapsody No.2", "The Running Set"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played the London Symphony Orchestra
With Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Conducted by Richard Hickox
Label: Chandos (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 237 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/xprqbi8qg
No.77
"Symphony No.4", "Dona Nobis Pacem", "The Lark Ascending"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
With Jessica Rivera (soprano) & Brett Polegato (baritone)
And David Coucheron (violin)
Conducted by Robert Spano
Label: Telarc (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 361 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!kf5jARSJ!QV4iLo2W0EvPQzlPIpZf5LTdSWRX_SJwA9EJQri2Iu4
No.78
"On Wenlock Edge", "Piano Quintet", "Romance and Pastorale"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played the Schubert Ensemble of London
With Mark Padmore (tenor)
Label: Chandos (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 223 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/gswe78ys1
My copy was accidently lost, so I would be most grateful for a replacement.
My copy was accidently lost, so I would be most grateful for a replacement.
Sorry, I only got the 4th with Barbirolli on Dutton (see further up) and the 5th on EMI (see below).
No.79
"Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No.7)", "Oboe Concerto", "Tuba Concerto", "Dives and Lazarus" (+ Edward Elgar)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Edward Elgar
Played the Hall� & London Symphony Orchestras
With Evelyn Rothwell (oboe) & Philip Catalinet (tuba)
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
Label: EMI (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Mono
File Size: 171 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!YKAwGBYT!a2szag4pFE9WJ-RmzvRaO3OcmUNTPX8_aXRZj5Jh9co
/>
No.80
"Five Tudor Portraits", "On Wenlock Edge", "Merciless Beauty"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
With Neil Rankin (mezzo-soprano) & Robert B. Anderson (baritone)
And the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh
Conducted by William Steinberg
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Mono
File Size: 321 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/k1cmia6gw
No.81
"Symphony No.5", "Toward the Unknown Region", "Serenade to Music", "The Wasps Overture"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played the London Symphony & Philharmonia Orchestras
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli & Sir Malcolm Sargent
Label: EMI (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Stereo
File Size: 328 MB
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!IOAThRIS!hzxAg3-9uNpix3wLPd3S3bNN4CSzOIld68jHK0NZkdA
"Songs of Travel", "The House of Life", "4 Poems of Fredegond Shove", "Linden Lea"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performed by Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Label: Naxos (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 224 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/ekw4t9b4y
No.83
"A Sea Symphony (Symphony No.1)"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
With Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) & Tommi Hakala (beritone)
And the MDR Leipzig Radio Chorus
Conducted by Howard Arman
Label: Querstand (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 281 MB (incl. covers)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/2h75598sw
No.84
"Tallis Fantasia", "The Lark Ascending", "Dives and Lazarus", "In the Fen Country", "Norfolk Rhapsody No.1"
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played The New Queen’s Hall Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Barry Wordsworth
Label: Decca/Argo (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 356 MB (incl, covers & booklet)
Download Link – https://mega.nz/#!1L4DUDIA!8wjV95l_OWUGi2PurhD3GMP6-jF3XsLfE_Suv6bwHGM
What he said was this: "I don’t know whether I like it, but it’s what I meant." – Maybe he himself was shocked by the harshness of his own creation. RVW always denied any programmatic influences in his symphonies, but apart from the obviously programmatic "Sinfonia Antartica" I think the dread of his 4th was at least partially influenced by the tension and impending doom of the inter-war years, and the 6th by the devastation and hitherto-unknown horrors of WWII – despite the humorous passages in each work.
"Job, A Masque for Dancing", "The Wasps Overture"
This is Sir Adrian Boult’s first, mono version of Job, A Masque for Dancing, originally released in 1954
and generally considered the best of his three recordings – and often seen as the benchmark in this work.
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Label: Prominence (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Mono
File Size: 277 MB (incl, cover)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/ih9222x35
"A Sea Symphony (Symphony No.1)"
Another outstanding recording recording by Sir Adrian Boult, perhaps the finest "Sea Symphony" on disc.
Also, the sound quality for mono is amazing.
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played the London Philharmonic Orchestra
With Isobel Baillie (soprano) & John Cameron (baritone)
And the London Philharmonic Choir
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Label: Decca/Belart (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), ADD Mono
File Size: 204 MB (incl, covers)
Download Link – https://dfiles.eu/files/srirbxmoy
"Shakespeare Songs" (+ John Rutter, James MacMillan, Kenneth Leighton, etc)
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams (& others)
Performed by Les Sir�nes Female Chamber Choir
With Fionnuala Ward (piano)
Conducted by Andrew Nunn
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 296 MB (incl, covers)
Download Link – http://depositfiles.com/files/oioe8jc72
So, no more shares in this thread and no more FLAC shares in the future either.
Please accept my full support!
All the Best!
No.88
"A London Symphony (Symphony No.2)"
These are three live accounts of Vaughan Williams’ A London Symphony that were recorded from radio
and have never been commercially released. Enjoy!
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
No.1 – Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (Stereo)
No.2 – London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux (Mono)
No.3 – Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo V�nsk� (Stereo)
Format: FLAC(RAR), AAD Mono/Stereo
File Size: 175 MB / 149 MB / 198 MB
Download Link (No.1) – http://depositfiles.com/files/qj0cp1yt8
Download Link (No.2) – http://depositfiles.com/files/dya3jfjg0
Download Link (No.3) – http://depositfiles.com/files/4saye6iqs
I knew the version by Malcolm Sargent & Chicago, but the other two are premieres for me.
Many,many thanks!
"Symphony No.4", "Symphony No.5", "Symphony No.6", "Symphony No.9" (+ Dmitri Shostakovich)
These are five live accounts of four different symphonies by Ralph Vaughan Williams that were recorded from radio
and have never been commercially released. Enjoy!
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
No.1 – Finnish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (Symphony No.4 + Shostakovich, Cello Concerto – Natalia Gutman) (Stereo)
No.2 – Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andr� Previn (Symphony No.5) (Stereo)
No.3 – New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (Symphony No.6) (Stereo)
No.4 – Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dmitri Koussevitsky (Symphony No.6) – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (Symphony No.9) (Mono)
Format: FLAC(RAR), AAD Mono/Stereo
File Size: 332 MB / 218 MB / 144 MB / 371 MB
Download Link (No.1) – http://depositfiles.com/files/xtl61gy99
Download Link (No.2) – http://depositfiles.com/files/1lji9tflt
Download Link (No.3) – https://mega.nz/#!dSIUBJaS!IJJ5CAlKp1ZNC1aOJtb_d79OIyHFSW_UEY9hsQaWLP4
Download Link (No.4) – http://depositfiles.com/files/6w74qxztb
Many, many, many thanks, dear wimpel69!!!
"The Bacchae", "Electra", "Iphigenia in Tauris"
In 1911, Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote music for three plays by Euripides � The Bacchae, Electra
and Iphigenia in Tauris � then newly translated into English verse. Isadora Duncan had danced for the composer and
asked him to write music for her to dance to within The Bacchae, and he also worked with the translator, Gilbert Murray.
A planned production of Iphigenia in Tauris did not come off, but there was a public performance of the music alone in
May 1912. It was described at the time as being music of �undeniable beauty� and Gilbert Murray wrote that the music
was set �in my judgement extraordinarily well�. The mezzo soprano soloist, Heather Lowe in her recording debut, sometimes
sings and sometimes recites the words of the choruses, accompanied by female voices (and additional soloists) from
Joyful Company of Singers and by Britten Sinfonia conducted by Alan Tongue.
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the Britten Sinfonia
With Heather Lowe (mezzo-soprano)
And The Joyful Company of Singers
Conducted by Alan Tongue
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), mp3(320), DDD Stereo
File Size: 226 MB / 152 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Please request the FLAC version by PM!
Download Link (mp3) – http://depositfiles.com/files/btbn80lkf
P.S.: Those whose aliases have been forwarded to me as sock puppets should know better than to ask for the FLAC version!
So, no more shares in this thread and no more FLAC shares in the future either.
What’s a private tracker? And isn’t this just the typical result of posting? My posts of the two rare Rosza suites was gobbled up, augmented, and reposted, if I remember correctly.
It would be nice to get credit (seeing I paid big bucks years ago to have these discs remastered from LP) but in the long run they are NOT MY PROPERTY. The most you can hope is to receive a thank
you… I always hope to see a response to the music and that hardly ever, ever happens. It frustrates me, a little, that I am filling the needs of forum members who NEVER SHARE A THING. They
are listed as long time members with hardly a handful of posts.
Not that my attitude is standard, I just decided early on to learn how to post music as a courtesy to those who have shared.
You provided a wonderful array of Vaughan William masterpieces. I have not tired of listening to the solo piano collection you posted. I always wondered about RVW and the piano, adoring his double piano concerto
played by Vronsky & Babin, conducted by Adrian Boult. So I once more thank you for the piano collection.
One shares for the pleasure of sharing. Again I wish there was more output from this, though I appreciate being thanked. We can’t expect the work to be forever entitled to ourselves. So thank you for
your great effort and opening so many ears. That is the most I can offer to balance your distress of people with bad manners and do not share the source of the material they have collected.
I wouldn’t mind so much if at least the people sharing the music further had the decency to mark their "forwarded posts" as "Not my rip." – which is customary on FFS, too.
"Folk Song Arrangements" (& others)
I Love my Love is a collection of remastered 78 rpm recordings of folk songs, drawn from recordings made
between 1919 and 1947. It focuses on folk songs of classical beauty, presented in generally straightforward
arrangements, collected in the early years of the 20th century. There is a depth of humanity in these songs
that connects us to a not-so-distant past. The stories and sentiments they describe, of love, war, courtship,
separation and the vagaries of the seasons, can make us smile, empathise and, sometimes, still move us to tears.
In parallel with the collection and revival of folk song at the beginning of the 20th century, there was a revival
in Tudor music, as a result of which E H Fellowes completed 36 volumes of The English Madrigal School in 1913,
and finally got it published in 1924. Steuart Wilson and Cuthbert Kelly founded The English Singers to sing this
repertoire, and they adopted the quasi-Elizabethan practice of sitting round a table to sing. Clearly, they were
happy to extend their repertoire to folk song, and the first ten tracks on our new recording find them singing
folk song settings by Vaughan Williams. The next three tracks feature Steuart Wilson himself, with Gerald Moore.
Further settings by Vaughan Williams appear in various guises, with some beautiful arrangements by other composers.
All true RVW lovers will want to hear Mary Lewis in �I�m to be married on a Tuesday morning�.
Music arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams (& others)
various performers
Label: Albion (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), mp3(320), ADD Mono
File Size: 155 MB / 146 MB (incl. covers & booklet)
Please request the FLAC version by PM!
Download Link (mp3) – http://depositfiles.com/files/qh2he9ztz
Please don’t share any further!
Awesome tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams!
Thanks very much wimpel69!
"The Bacchae", "Electra", "Iphigenia in Tauris"
No.91
"Folk Song Arrangements" (& others)
Thanks for updates. links received.
Thank you so much!
"The Bacchae", "Electra", "Iphigenia in Tauris"
Link received and greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!
Complete Symphonies (Nos. 1-9)
Music Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Played by the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Label: Melodiya (My rip!)
Format: mp3(320), ADD Stereo
File Size: 918 MB
Download Link (mp3) – http://depositfiles.com/files/lyk38pasr
Please don’t share any further!
https://img.discogs.com/lDOzwn6CdNB9rCcAYb_BA7C0lLU=/fit-in/600×568/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():qualit y(90)/discogs-images/R-3546511-1334753907.jpeg.jpg
https://www.discogs.com/Vaughan-Williams-Kings-College-Choir-Cambridge-London-Philharmonic-Choir-The-Bach-Choir-Conducted-By/release/3546511
best and thanks!
dR
Choral Arrangements & Originals
Music Composed (or Arranged) by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performed by the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Conducted by William Vann
Label: Albion Records (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(WinRar), DDD Stereo
File Size: 316 MB & 283 MB (incl. covers & booklets)
Download Link (A Vaughan Williams Christmas, FLAC) – https://mega.nz/#!CPBnXYIJ!Ph1CSV35estN6kSKZvArFF7tvmQdU7gEBl8mgUBrTUs
Download Link (Vaughan Williams Choral Premieres, FLAC) – https://mega.nz/#!qPJnFYjK!ZTGjdong9Kogi88kFoDzIRU1OMlc0fvbkSdMD0m2LVI
Please don’t share any further! 🙂
Note: These late additions will be my final posts in this thread. Of the old ones, 25-30% of links are gone,
there will be no re-ups. So get what’s available while it’s still there.
Thank you so much for the music and the nice booklets!