The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), Volume 1

 

premiere recording in this complete version

Scott of the Antarctic

Suite from the music for the film

(Edited by Stephen Hogger)

Merryn Gamba (soprano)

Jonathan Scott (organ)

Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus

 

Coastal Command Suite

premiere recording

 

The People’s land

(Edited by Stephen Hogger)

 

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba

 

This release is part of Chandos’ highly successful film music series and is the first of three volumes of Vaughan Williams’s music for the cinema.

 

Some of the music of Vaughan Williams’s greatest film score, Scott of the Antarctic, was truncated in the film and has not previously been heard in full. Some music cues were not used at all. This recording is therefore of immense historical as well as cultural significance, because for the first time it is possible to appreciate the scale of Vaughan Williams’s achievement and understand why he re-worked the Scott score as the basis of his Seventh Symphony, Sinfonia Antartica.

 

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