The Collector’s Edition

~ Release by Vaughan Williams (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

▶ CD 1: A Sea Symphony
▶ CD 2: A London Symphony / Symphony No. 8 In D Minor
▶ CD 3: A Pastoral Symphony / Symphony No. 4 In F Minor
▶ CD 4: Oboe Concerto In A Minor / Symphony No. 5 In D
▶ CD 5: Symphony No. 6 In E Minor / Symphony No. 9 In E Minor
▶ CD 6: Serenade To Music / Partita / Sinfonia Antartica
▶ CD 7: The Wasps – Aristophanic Suite / Prelude And Fugue In C Minor / Piano Concerto In C
▶ CD 8: Piano Concerto In C / Job: A Masque For Dancing
▶ CD 9: Serenade To Music / English Folk Songs – Suite / Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 / Fantasia On ‘Greensleeves’ / In The Fen Country / The Lark Ascending – Romance
▶ CD 10: Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis / English Folk Songs – Suite / Concerto Grosso / Romance In D Flat
▶ CD 11: Serenade To Music Orchestral Version / The Poisoned Kiss – Overture / Old King Cole – A Ballet For Orchestra / Five Mystical Songs (George Herbert) / Prelude On An Old Carol Tune / The Running Set / Prelude: 49th Parallel / Sea Songs – March Orchestral Version
▶ CD 12: Variations For Orchestra / Two Hymn‐Tune Preludes / Concerto Accademico (Concerto For Violin And Strings In D Minor) / Three Preludes Founded On Welsh Hymn Tunes / String Quartet No. 3 In G Minor
▶ CD 13: Violin Sonata In A Minor / Phantasy Quintet For Two Violins, Two Violas And Cello / Six Studies In English Folk Song For Cello And Piano / String Quartet No. 2 In A Minor (For Jean On Her Birthday)
▶ CD 14: Toward The Unknown Region / Dona Nobis Pacem / Fantasia (Quasi Variazione) On The Old 104th Psalm Tune / Magnificat
▶ CD 15: An Oxford Elegy For Speaker, Small Chorus And Small Orchestra / Whitsunday Hymn (Three Choral Hymns) / Flos Campi Suite For Solo Viola, Small Chorus And Small Orchestra / Sancta Civitas (The Holy City)
▶ CD 16: Five Tudor Portraits / Benedicite / Five Variants Of ‘Dives And Lazarus’
▶ CD 17: Fantasia On Christmas Carols Version With Strings And Organ / Hodie – A Christmas Cantata /
▶ CD 18: Fantasia On Christmas Carols Version With Full Orchestra / Yorkshire Wassail Song (We’ve Been Awhile A‐Wandering) / In Windsor Forest / Songs Of Travel / On Wenlock Edge
▶ CD 19: O Clap Your Hands / Mass In G Minor / All People That On Earth Do Dwell / O Taste And See / Te Deum In G / For All The Saints / Three Preludes Founded On Welsh Hymn Tunes / The Truth From Above / O Little Town Of Bethlehem / Joseph And Mary / And All In The Morning / Alleluya, Sing To Jesus / Come Down, O Love Divine / All People That On Earth Do Dwell
▶ CD 20: Four Hymns / Merciless Beauty / The Water Mill / The New Ghost / Ten Blake Songs / On Wenlock Edge
▶ CD 21: Songs Of Travel
▶ CD 22: Linden Lea / Joy, Shipmate, Joy! / A Clear Midnight / Orpheus With His Lute / Hands, Eyes And Heart / Rest / The Call / Linden Lea / Folksong Arrangements: Five English Folk Songs / Folksong Arrangements
▼ CD 23: Folksong Arrangements: East Anglia – Wessex – Carols – France – Newfoundland / Voice & Violin (Violin & Piano) / A Song Of Thanksgiving
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1The Captain's Apprentice
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
The Captain's Apprentice
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
arrangement of:
The Cruel Ship’s Captain (The Captain's Apprentice)
part of:
Songs from Norfolk
Ralph Vaughan Williams3:42
2As I walked out
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
As I Walked Out (English folk song from Essex)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
part of:
Songs from Essex
Ralph Vaughan Williams1:29
3Bushes and Briars
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
Bushes and Briars
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
part of:
Songs from Essex
Ralph Vaughan Williams3:28
4Geordie
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
Geordie (English folk song from Norfolk)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
part of:
Songs from Cambridgeshire
Ralph Vaughan Williams3:47
5On Board a Ninety-Eight
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
On Board a Ninety-Eight
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
part of:
Songs from Norfolk
Ralph Vaughan Williams2:54
6The Ploughman
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
The Ploughman (for voice and piano)
composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer) (in 1935)
part of:
Six English Folk Songs (for voice and piano)
Ralph Vaughan Williams1:37
7The Brewer
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
The Brewer (for voice and piano)
composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer) (in 1935)
part of:
Six English Folk Songs (for voice and piano)
Ralph Vaughan Williams0:25
8Rolling in the Dew
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
Rolling in the dew (for voice and piano)
composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer) (in 1935)
arrangement of:
Rolling in the Dew (Dabbling in the Dew / Rolling in the Dew / The Milkmaid's Song)
part of:
Six English Folk Songs (for voice and piano)
Ralph Vaughan Williams2:07
9The Truth Sent from Above
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
The Truth Sent From Above (arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, aka the Herefordshire Carol)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
version of:
The Truth Sent From Above
part of:
Eight Traditional English Carols (arr. Vaughan Williams)
part of:
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Ralph Vaughan Williams2:16
10Joseph and Mary
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
Joseph and Mary (trad. English, arr. Vaughan Williams)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
Ralph Vaughan Williams2:54
11The Saviour's Love
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
The Saviour’s Love (Traditional Christmas Carol from Hertfordshire)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer) (in 1920)
Ralph Vaughan Williams2:19
12Réveillez-vous, Piccars
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
Réveillez-vous, Piccars (for voice and piano)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer) (in 1903)
Ralph Vaughan Williams2:08
13Chanson de quête
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
Chanson de quête (French folk song)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
Ralph Vaughan Williams1:20
14Ballad de Jésus Christ
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
Ballad de Jésus Christ (French folk song)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
Ralph Vaughan Williams3:39
15She's like the swallow
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
She's like the swallow (Newfoundland folk song)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer) (in 1934)
Ralph Vaughan Williams2:31
16The Morning Dew
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
The Morning Dew (Newfoundland folk song)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
Ralph Vaughan Williams1:43
17The Maiden's Lament
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
The Maiden's Lament (Newfoundland folk song)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
Ralph Vaughan Williams1:53
18The Cuckoo
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
The Cuckoo (English folk song from Dorset)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
part of:
Book I - Folk Songs from Dorset
Ralph Vaughan Williams1:42
19The Lawyer
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
The Lawyer
lyricist:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
Ralph Vaughan Williams1:59
20Searching for Lambs
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
Searching for Lambs
lyricist:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
arrangement of:
Searching for Lambs
Ralph Vaughan Williams3:30
21How cold the wind doth blow (or The Unquiet Grave)
piano:
Philip Ledger
violin:
Hugh Bean (violinist)
tenor vocals:
Robert Tear (tenor)
recording of:
How Cold the Wind Doth Blow (for piano, violin and voice, Vaughan Williams)
composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer) (in 1912)
arrangement of:
The Unquiet Grave
part of:
Folk Songs of England, Book 5 "From Sussex"
Ralph Vaughan Williams6:10
22A Song of Thanksgiving
producer:
Lawrance Collingwood and George Martin (producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician)
organ:
Harry Gabb (organist)
choir vocals:
Luton Choral Society and Luton Girls’ Choir (English choir)
other vocals:
Robert Speaight
soprano vocals:
Betty Dolemore
orchestra:
London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO)
conductor:
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
chorus master:
Arthur E. Davies (tenor)
recorded at:
No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road in St John's Wood, Westminster, London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (on 1951-12-18)
recording of:
A Song of Thanksgiving
lyricist:
Rudyard Kipling and William Shakespeare (English poet and playwright)
composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
Ralph Vaughan Williams15:04
▶ CD 24: Epithalamion / Riders To The Sea
▶ CD 25: Hugh The Drover – Act I
▶ CD 26: Hugh The Drover – Act II
▶ CD 27: Sir John In Love – Act I, Act II
▶ CD 28: Sir John In Love – Act III, Act IV
▶ CD 29: The Pilgrim’s Progress – Act I, II, III
▶ CD 30: The Pilgrim’s Progress – Act III (contd.) / Sir Adrian In Rehearsal

Credits

Release

chorus master:Ian Tracey (organist and choir master)
baritone vocals:William Shimell (baritone)
choir vocals:Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
soprano vocals:Joan Rodgers (soprano)
tenor vocals:Ian Partridge (tenor)
ASIN:UK: B00156ZWV0 [info]