in Choir & Organ (Nov, 2018)
Vaughan Williams died 60 years ago this year and his reputation has probably never been higher than at present. This CD offers no fewer than 21 premiere recordings among its 22 tracks from the byways of his output. While none of these short choral works – which include hymns, anthems and folk song arrangements, as well as some early Tennyson settings and patriotic commissions from the second world war – will change our view of the composer, they certainly make for an enjoyable, and occasionally surprising, hour’s music. RVW’s lovely version of Foster’s ‘Old Folks at Home’ (‘Swanee River’) is one of the more unexpected items. The chamber-sized Choir of the …
Vaughan Williams: Choral Works – Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Vine, Vine and Eglantine
Winter
Spring
Sound Sleep
The Jolly Ploughboy
Old Folks at Home
A Farmer’s Boy
The World It Went Well with Me Then
Tobacco’s but an Indian Weed
The New Commonwealth
O Praise the Lord of Heaven
My soul, Praise the Lord
Little Cloister
A Hymn of Freedom
England, My England
A Call to the Free Nations
The Airmen’s Hymn
Land of Our Birth
Hymn for St. Margaret of Scotland
Dawn on the Hills
Come Let Us Gather Cockles
Wake and Rise
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
15,90€
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