Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony; Norfolk Rhapsodies (2002)
Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony; Norfolk Rhapsodies (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 236 Mb | Total time: 66:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10001 | Recorded: 2001
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 236 Mb | Total time: 66:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10001 | Recorded: 2001
Vaughan Williams had been interested in folk music since he was a boy. In December 1903, he noted down the tune of Bushes and Briars from a 70 year-old labourer who lived in the Essex village of Ingrave. Over the next ten years he collected more than 800 songs, and they had a profound effect on his development as a composer. Particularly significant was a week long visit to King’s Lynn in 1905, during which he collected some 30 songs. One was The Captain’s Apprentice as sung by the fisherman James Carter. This melody was used in the Norfolk Rhapsody No 1, the Sea Symphony and the Pastoral Symphony. Another was Ward the Pirate, used as a theme in both the first and second Rhapsodies.
After the visit, Vaughan Williams began to plan a full-scale folk-song symphony. Although such a symphony was never published, he did complete the three Norfolk Rhapsodies in 1905 and 1906, and these were originally planned as the separate movements of the symphony: No. 1 was to have been the first movement, No. 2 the slow movement and scherzo, and No.3 the finale, a march and trio using four folk tunes for its themes. All three of the Rhapsodies were performed during those years and reviewed in the press. But in 1914 the first was heavily revised and the remaining two withdrawn from publication. Two pages of the second Rhapsody and the whole score of the third went missing.
There is evidence of all this in the composer’s scrapbook of folk song material, from contemporary letters, programme notes and concert reviews. But now the Norfolk Rhapsody No 2 has re-surfaced (edited and completed by Stephen Hogger) and expertly recorded here by the late Richard Hickox, we get a clearer picture of how the complete symphony might have sounded. It’s more than possible that the third movement will also be re-discovered one day. Unitl then, other fragments remain of the source material. For instance, Vaughan Williams made arrangements with piano accompaniment of a number of the folk songs, including The Captain’s Apprentice and Ward the Pirate, and seven of the field recordings he made in King’s Lynn have survived.–John Abbott
Performer:
Rebecca Evans, soprano
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox, conductor
Tracklist:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
01. Norfolk Rhapsody for orchestra No. 2 in D minor
Symphony No. 3 for soprano or tenor & orchestra ("Pastoral")
02. I. Molto moderato - Poco tranquillo - Tempo 1 - Largamente - Tempo 1
03. II. Lento moderato - Poco tranquillo, tempo rubato - Tempo 1
04. III. Moderato pesante - Poco animato - A tempo - Presto
05. IV. Lento - Moderato maestoso - Animato - Poco più lento - Tempo 1
06. The Running Set, fantasia on jig-rhythms for orchestra
07. Norfolk Rhapsody for orchestra No. 1 in E minor
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Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony; Norfolk Rhapsodies (2002)
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