Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: Elizabeth Watts, David Butt Philip
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Release: 2020
Size: 1.37 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony No. 3 ‘A Pastoral Symphony’
01. I. Molto moderato
02. II. Lento moderato
03. III. Moderato pesante
04. IV. Lento
Symphony No. 4 in F minor
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Andante moderato
07. III. Scherzo: Allegro molto
08. IV. Finale con epilogo fugato: Allegro molto
09. Saraband ‘Helen’
Compelling performances of two very different symphonies, the complex visionary pantheism of the ‘Pastoral’ an ideal foil for the unbridled ferocity of No 4. An added incentive, Martyn Brabbins’s idiomatic realization of Vaughan Williams’s choral Saraband ‘Helen’ (a first recording) is a real discovery.