My review of the new Somm Recordings Vaughan Williams Live disc, with two versions of my favourite VW symphony, no. 5, conducted by the composer.
http://several-instruments.blogspot.com/2022/12/vaughan-williams-conductor.html
The cover photo by Dudley Styles shows the composer with his cat Foxy, from 1948.
#RVW150
Vaughan Williams Live Vol. 1
BBC SO, RPO, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Essential #RVW150 listening. Searing, surging, stinging accounts of The Wasps and #Symphony No. 6 show what a superb Vaughan Williams conductor Sargent was. The premiere performance of No. 9 is a model of how to approach a masterpiece that's still much misunderstood today.
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#ClassicalPoll Flying Finn Jean Sibelius was born 157 years ago #OnThisDay, while 2022 is the 150th anniversary of Great Briton Ralph Vaughan Williams #RVW150. These two supreme symphonists both opened their accounts with epic choral symphonies lasting over an hour. Which one is your favourite? VOTE NOW!
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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Symphony No. 8
BBC #Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski
The old magician conducts this fabulous performance from 1964. Many people don't realise that #Stokowski was English.
Wow! Here's the Portuguese premiere of Vaughan Williams's #Symphony No. 9; Pedro de Freitas Branco conducting the National Symphony Orchestra on 20th December 1958, four months after the composer's death. The sound on this video is pretty rough but stick with it because the performance is very good indeed!
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Deny Fear
The Symphonist
Choir of the Earth 