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Corydon Singers and Matthew Best: Ralph Vaughan Williams Choral Works (4 CD set)


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Issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Vaughan Williams' death, this collection is tantalizing. Throughout the collection, the composer's mastery in setting great texts to music is evident, and has prompted the sorts of glowing reviews that make this specially-priced boxed set a must-have. (Notes taken from the distributor's catalog)

Ralph Vaughan WIlliams Choral Works
Year Released: 2008

Corydon Singers
English Chamber Orchestra
Corydon Orchestra
City of London Sinfonia
Matthew Best - conductor

Disk 1: Serenade to Music - Mystical Songs - Flos Campi

- 1. Serenade to Music 'How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!'
Five Mystical Songs
- 2. No 1: Easter 'Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise without delays'
- 3. No 2: I got me flowers
- 4. No 3: Love bade me welcome
- 5. No 4: The Call 'Come, my way, my truth, my life'
- 6. No 5: Antiphon 'Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing'
- 7. Fantasia on Christmas Carols 'This is the truth sent from above'
- 8. Flos Campi

Disk 2: Dona Nobis Pacem - Toward the Unknown Region

- 1. Movement 1: Agnus Dei
- 2. Movement 2: Beat! beat! drums!
- 3. Movement 3: Reconciliation 'Word over all, beautiful as the sky'
- 4. Movement 4: Dirge for two veterans 'The last sunbeam'
- 5. Movement 5: The Angel of Death has been abroad
Four Hymns
- 6. No 1: Lord! Come away!
- 7. No 2: Who is this fair one?
- 8. No 3: Come love, come Lord
- 9. No 4: Evening Hymn 'O gladsome light, O grace'
-10. Toward the Unknown Region 'Darest thou now O soul'
-11. O clap your hands 'Psalm 47'
-12. Lord, thou hast been our refuge 'Psalm 90'

Disk 3: The Pilgrim's Progress - A Bunyan Sequence

- 1. Movement 01: Prologue 'As I walked through the wildness of this world I lighted on a certain
- 2. Movement 02: The Kingdom 'Neighbours, wherefore are you come?'
- 3. Movement 03: The Gate 'What dost thou here, Christian?'
- 4. Movement 04: The Way 'Who is there? Whence come ye?'
- 5. Movement 05: The Shepherd 'I beheld then that he came to the foot of the hill Difficulty'
- 6. Movement 06: The Palace Beautiful 'Is thy strength so small? Fear not the lions'
- 7. Movement 07: Apollyon 'The next day they took him in to the armoury'
- 8. Movement 08: Vanity Fair 'The I heard sounds of merriment and junketing'
- 9. Movement 09: The Trial 'At last things came to an hubbub and great stir in the fair'
-10. Movement 10: Giant Despair 'But he that over-rules all things so wrought it about that Christian for that time escaped his tormentors'
-11. Movement 11: The Delectable Mountains 'I went then, till I came to the Delectable Mountains'
-12. Movement 12: Epilogue 'Now, listener, I have told my dream to thee'

Disk 4: The Shepherds of The Delectable Mountains

- 1. A song of thanksgiving
Three Choral Hymns
- 2. No 1: Easter Hymn
- 3. No 2: Christmas Hymn
- 4. No 3: Whitsunday Hymn
- 5. Magnificat
- 6. The shepherds of the delectable mountains
- 7. The Hundredth Psalm
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