Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: Arthur Whittemore, Jack Lowe
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra
Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos, Sir John Barbirolli
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Somm
Catalogue: ARIADNE5020
Release: 2023
Size: 379 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Piano Concerto in C for two pianos
02. I. Toccata. Allegro moderato
03. II. Romanza. Lento
04. III. Fuga chromatica con Finale alla tedesca
Symphony No. 8 in D minor
05. I. Fantasia (Variazione senza Tema): Moderato
06. II. Scherzo alla marcia (per stromenti a fiato): Allegro alla marcia
07. III. Cavatina (per stromenti ad arco): Lento espressivo
08. IV. Toccata. Moderato maestoso
SOMM RECORDINGS continues its acclaimed Vaughan Williams Live series celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with Volume 4 featuring his signature Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, the Concerto for Two Pianos and Eighth Symphony in recordings conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos and Sir John Barbirolli. The Tallis Fantasia is a live recording from Carnegie Hall in 1943 with Mitropoulos, a committed advocate for Vaughan Williams’ music, conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. They are also heard in the Concerto for Two Pianos, again from Carnegie Hall in 1952, when the soloists were Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, who forged a widely popular and critically acclaimed piano duo partnership in America in the middle of the last century. Recorded in Manchester’s Free Trade Hall in 1964, the Symphony No.8 is blazingly conducted by its dedicatee, Sir John Barbirolli, leading the Hallé Orchestra.