RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872–1958)

 

premiere recording in this suite

49th Parallel

Suite edited by Stephen Hogger

Prelude [opening titles]

Prologue

Control Room Alert

Hudson Bay Post

Looting the Store

Death of Kühnecke

Hutterite Settlement (a) Anna’s Volkslied*

Hutterite Settlement (b) The Wheat Harvest

Winnipeg I

Winnipeg II

Nazi March

Indian Music I

Indian Music II

Indian Music III

 

Nazis on the run & The Lake in the Mountains

Prelude [closing titles]

 

The music for the opening and closing titles is published by Oxford University Press as ‘Prelude to 49th Parallel ’.

 

premiere recording of complete version

The Dim Little Island†

Partially reconstructed by Stephen Hogger

Moderato – Allegro moderato – Lento – Adagio

 

premiere recording in this suite

The England of Elizabeth

Suite edited by Stephen Hogger

I           Titles.Allegro maestoso – Street scene –

Countryside. Andante tranquillo – Tudor houses.

Lento – Portraits. Allegro maestoso –

Elizabeth. Allegro maestoso – Hatfield –

Tintern. Lento – King’s College Cambridge.

Andante‡

II          Books.Andante con moto – Seamen.Allegro

animato – Dance.Allegro moderato – Country

wedding. Allegro vivace – London. Lento

III        Stratford.Andante tranquillo – Maps –

Red Indians – River Avon – Charlcote. Lento –

Deer. Più mosso – Road to London.Allegretto –

Armada.Allegro – The Aftermath. Largo

sostenuto

IV         Treasures. Allegretto (Tempo da Gavotte) –

New houses.Allegro maestoso – Yeoman interior.

Allegretto tranquillo

V          King’s College. Largo – River Avon.Andante –

Final scenes. Allegro maestoso

 

Emily Gray soprano*

Martin Hindmarsh tenor†

Chetham’s Chamber Choir‡

BBC Philharmonic, Yuli Torchinsky leader

Rumon Gamba

 

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