Sir Henry J. Wood conducts Vaughan Williams

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For orchestra (1st, 3rd-4th works) ; for 16 singers and orchestra (2nd)

2nd work sung in English; text from Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice (act 5 scene 1)

Isobel Baillie, Stiles Allen, Elsie Suddaby, Eva Turner, Margaret Balfour, Astra Desmond, Muriel Brunskill, Mary Jarred, Heddle Nash, Walter Widdop, Parry Jones, Frank Titterton, Roy Henderson, Robert Easton, Harold Williams, Norman Allin, singers (2nd work) ; the Queens̓ Hall Orchestra (1st, 3rd-4th) ; BBC Symphony Orchestra (2nd) ; Sir Henry J. Wood, conductor

Recorded: Apr. 21-22, 1936 at Decca Studios, London (1st, 3rd-4th works); Oct. 15, 1938 at Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London

Reissued from 78 rpm discs (1st work: Decca K821/2; 2nd: Columbia LX757/8; 3rd: Decca X114-8; 4th: Decca X822)

Compact disc; analog recording

Leaflet contains program notes in English

Cedar: CDAX 8004

Contents of Works

  • Aristophanic suite 'The wasps'. overture
  • Serenade to music
  • A London symphony
  • Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

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