Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: Elsie Suddaby, Valentine Dyall, George Thalben-Ball, Choir of the Children of the Thomas Coram Schools, BBC Symphony Chorus, Isobel Baillie, Astra Desmond, Beveridge White, Harold Williams
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Somm
Catalogue: ARIADNE5018
Release: 2022
Size: 400 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. A Song of Thanksgiving
02. Serenade to Music
Job, a Masque for Dancing
03. Scene 1 “Saraband of the Sons of God”
04. Scene 2 “Satan’s Dance of Triumph”
05. Scene 3 “Minuet of the Sons of Job and their Wives”
06. Scene 4 “Job’s Dream”
07. Scene 5 “Dance of the Three Messengers”
08. Scene 6 “Dance of Job’s Comforters”
09. Scene 7 “Elihu’s Dance of Youth and Beauty”
10. Scene 8 “Pavane of the Sons of the Morning”
11. Scene 9 “Epilogue”
SOMM Recordings’ celebration of the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth continues with the second volume of “Vaughan Williams Live“, featuring historic performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult in new, signature remasterings by Lani Spahr.
Two works featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus include a 1945 BBC radio broadcast of the first performance of the wartime masterpiece Thanksgiving for Victory – with soprano Elsie Suddaby, organist George Thalben-Ball and Valentine Dyall as the speaker – and the rapturous Serenade to Music from the opening night of the BBC’s Third Programme (now Radio 3) in 1946. First performed in 1938 in celebration of Henry Wood’s jubilee as a conductor and originally composed for 16 solo singers, it appears here in its version for orchestra, chorus and four soloists – Isobel Baillie (soprano), Astra Desmond (contralto), Beveridge White (tenor), and Harold Williams (baritone). Its dedicatee, Boult, conducts a performance of Job in 1946 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra before he made his four studio recordings of the work.