Serenade to music [sound recording] ; English folk song suite ; Norfolk rhapsody no. 1 ; Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' ; In the Fen country ; The lark ascending / Vaughan Williams
Compact disc (ADD) The 1st work for 16 solo singers (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB) and orchestra (text from Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice); the 2nd originally for military band; the 6th for violin and orchestra Words of the 1st work from Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice (act V, scene 1) Selections previously released, p1967, p1968, p1971 Copmpact disc Notes by Geoffrey Crankshaw & Michael Kennedy, and text for 1st work ([2] p.) inserted in container Sir Adrian Boult, conductor. In the 1st work: Norma Burrowes, Sheila Armstrong, Susan Longfield, Marie Hayward, Alfreda Hodgson, Gloria Jennings, Shirley Minty, Meriel Dickinson, Ian Partridge, Bernard Dickerson, Wynford Evans, Kenneth Bowen, Richard Angas, John Carol Case, John Noble, Christopher Keyte, vocal soloists ; London Philharmonic Orchestra. In the 2nd and 4th works: London Symphony Orchestra. In the 3rd and 5th works: New Philharmonia Orchestra. In the 6th work: Hugh Bean, violin ; New Philharmonia Orchestra Recorded in Kingsway Hall, London, Nov. 5, 1969, Aug. 8 and 12-13, 1970, Feb. 14-16, 1968; and in No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, Jan. 23, 1968 and Mar. 1, 1967
Contents:
Serenade to music (13:14) -- English folk song suite / arr. Gordon Jacob (8:45) -- Norfolk rhapsody no. 1 (10:14) -- Fantasia on Greensleeves (4:34) -- In the Fen country (13:51) -- The lark ascending (14:42)
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