The Specialists for Classical Music
Over 75,000 titles online
UK Delivery
Pay no more than £3
Fast International Delivery
Premium durable packaging
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 1872–1958
COMPACT DISC 1
An Oxford Elegy for speaker, small chorus and small orchestra P 1969
1 (Lento) 2.03
2 Go, for they call you, Shepherd 1.04
3 Here will I sit and wait 1.45
4 Screen’d is this nook 0.48
5 That sweet city 1.39
6 Come, let me read 1.05
7 Or in my boat I lie 0.48
8 And once, in winter 1.11
9 But what—I dream! 0.36
10 No, no, thou hast not felt 1.35
11 Runs it not here 0.43
12 Needs must I, with heavy heart 1.02
13 Soon will the high Midsummer pomps 1.29
14 He hearkens not! 0.54
15 Never more 0.57
16 Yes, thou art gone! 1.48
17 Despair I will not 1.16
18 Why faintest thou? 1.13
John Westbrook (speaker) • Jacques Orchestra
19 Whitsunday Hymn (No.3 of Three Choral Hymns) P 1999* 3.46
Robin Doveton (tenor)
Flos campi Suite for solo viola, small chorus and small orchestra P 1969*
20 1. Sicut Lilium inter spinas (Lento) 2.47
21 2. Jam enim hiems transiit (Andante con moto) 3.26
22 3. Quaesivi quem diligit anima mea (Lento—Allegro moderato) 3.08
23 4. En lectulum Salomonis (Moderato alla marcia) 1.43
24 5. Revertere, revertere Sulamitis! (Andante quasi lento) 3.06
25 6. Pone me ut signaculum (Moderato tranquillo) 5.40
Cecil Aronowitz (viola) • Jacques Orchestra
Sancta Civitas (The Holy City)
An oratorio for tenor and baritone soli, semi-chorus, distant chorus, chorus and orchestra P 1968†
26 I was in the spirit (Lento) 4.49
27 And I saw Heaven opened (Allegro) 2.21
28 And I saw an angel standing in the sun (Meno mosso) 1.31
29 Babylon the great is fallen (Lento) 4.15
30 Rejoice over her O Heavens (Allegro moderato) 3.13
31 And I saw a new heaven (Adagio) 4.58
32 Therefore are they before the throne of God (Poco meno largo) 1.09
33 And I saw a pure river 2.41
34 Holy, Holy, Holy (Andante sostenuto) 2.58
35 Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory (Poco animato) 3.17
Ian Partridge (tenor) • John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Bach Choir • London Symphony Orchestra
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge / Sir David Willcocks
Recorded in the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, 30 & *31 July 1968. and †Kingsway Hall, London, 18 & 19 January 1968
COMPACT DISC 2
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Five Mystical Songs
1 1. Easter 5.10
2 2. I got me flowers 2.54
3 3. Love bade me welcome 5.26
4 4. The Call 2.10
5 5. Antiphon 3.23
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
6 O clap your hands 3.18
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge • English Chamber Orchestra / Sir David Willcocks
Gustav Holst 1874–1934
7 A Choral Fantasia H177 (Op.51)* 17.15
Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
8 Psalm 86 H117 No.1* 7.59
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Purcell Singers • English Chamber Orchestra (Ralph Downes, organ)
Imogen Holst
Gerald Finzi 1901–1956
Dies natalis Op.8†
9 1. Intrada— 5.07
10 2. Rhapsody (Recitativo stromentato) 6.30
11 3. The Rapture (Danza) 3.33
12 4. Wonder (Arioso) 4.19
13 5. The Salutation (Aria) 4.13
Wilfred Brown (tenor) • English Chamber Orchestra / Christopher Finzi
Recorded in the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, 3 & 4 August 1966, *St Augustine’s, Kilburn,
23 September 1963 and †No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, 26 September 1963
COMPACT DISC 3
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Mass in G minor
1 Kyrie 3.58
2 Gloria 4.06
3 Credo 6.59
4 Sanctus—Osanna I—Benedictus—Osanna II 5.29
5 Agnus Dei 3.40
John Eaton (treble) • Nigel Perrin (alto) • Robin Doveton (tenor) • David van Asch (bass)
Gerald Finzi • Arnold Bax 1883–1953*
6 Lo, the full, final Sacrifice Op.26 (Finzi)† 14.00
John Bowen (tenor) • Roland Robertson (bass)
7 Mater ora filium (Bax) 10.26
8 God is gone up Op.27 No.2 (Finzi)† 4.31
9 I sing of a maiden that is makeless (Bax) 3.54
10 This Worldes Joie (Bax) 6.18
11 Magnificat Op.36 (Finzi)† 9.22
Graham Green & Bruce Blyth (trebles)
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
†Richard Farnes (organ scholar)
Sir David Willcocks • *Stephen Cleobury
COMPACT DISC 4
Gerald Finzi
Intimations of Immortality
Ode for tenor solo, mixed chorus and orchestra Op.29
(words by William Wordsworth)
1 There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream 9.38
2 The rainbow comes and goes 2.16
3 Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song 5.06
4 Ye blessèd Creatures, I have heard the call 5.51
5 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting 3.58
6 Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own 1.21
7 O joy! that in our embers 8.16
8 Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! 3.46
9 And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves 4.50
Philip Langridge (tenor) • Liverpool Philharmonic Choir (chorus master Ian Tracey)
Grand Fantasia and Toccata for piano and orchestra Op.38
10 Molto grave 9.38
11 Allegro vigoroso 6.06
Philip Fowke (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
(leader Malcolm Stewart) / Richard Hickox
Recorded in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 27 & 28 November 1988
COMPACT DISC 5
Gustav Holst
The ballet from
The Perfect Fool Op.39*
1 Andante— 0.57
2 Dance of Spirits of Earth (Moderato—Andante)— 3.39
3 Dance of Spirits of Water (Allegretto) 2.47
4 Dance of Spirits of Fire (Allegro moderato) 3.15
5 Egdon Heath—Homage to Hardy Op.47* 14.36
London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn
The Planets—Suite Op.32†
6 1. Mars, the Bringer of War (Allegro) 7.19
7 2. Venus, the Bringer of Peace (Adagio) 8.52
8 3. Mercury, the Winged Messenger (Vivace) 4.05
9 4. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (Allegro giocoso) 8.04
10 5. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age (Adagio) 9.12
11 6. Uranus, the Magician (Allegro) 6.27
12 7. Neptune, the Mystic (Andante) (with the women’s voices of the Ambrosian Singers) 7.09
New Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult
Recorded in *No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, 3 & 4 August 1974, and †Kingsway Hall, London, 21 & 22 July 1966
EMI British Composers 5cds 0954332
Customer Reviews
Vaughan Williams Flos Campi Sancta civitas Emi British Composers 5Cds Review this Product
United Kingdom
Pay no more than £3 per order. All orders sent by Royal Mail 1st Class.
Box sets - Depending on the product packaging, box sets are not charged at the full rate.
£1.00 per CD up to £3.00 (e.g. a 2 CD set will be charged as £2.00)
DVDs are charged as 2 CDs.
European Countries (All shipped by Airmail only)
£2.00 for the first CD, thereafter 50p.
Box sets - Depending on the product packaging, box sets are not charged at the full rate.
DVDs are charged as 2 CDs.
European Countries (All shipped by Airmail only)
£2.25 for the first CD, thereafter £1.00 per CD
Box sets - Depending on the product packaging, box sets are not charged at the full rate.
DVDs are charged as 2 CDs.
Rest of the World (Shipped by Airmail Only)
£1.25 for the first CD, thereafter 75p
Box sets - Depending on the product packaging, box sets are not charged at the full rate.
DVDs are charged as 2 CDs.
Rest of world (Shipped by Airmail only)
£2.00 for the first CD, thereafter 50p per CD
Box sets - Depending on the product packaging, box sets are not charged at the full rate.
DVDs are charged as 2 CDs.
Rest of world (Shipped by Airmail only)
£2.25 for the first CD, thereafter £1.00 per CD
Box sets - Depending on the product packaging, box sets are not charged at the full rate.
DVDs are charged as 2 CDs.
Austrailia (Shipped by Airmail only)
£1.75 for the first CD, thereafter £1.00 per CD
Box sets - Depending on the product packaging, box sets are not charged at the full rate.
DVDs are charged as 2 CDs.
