Ralph Vaughan Williams - Choral Works 4-CD Box Set (Hyperion Audio CD)

CD1

1 Serenade to Music 'How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!' [13:34]
English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor), Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Amanda Roocroft (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Anne Dawson (soprano), Linda Kitchen (soprano), Alan Opie (baritone), Gwynne Howell (bass), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), John Connell (bass)

Five Mystical Songs

2 No 1: Easter 'Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise without delays' [5:25]
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

3 No 2: I got me flowers [2:51]
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

4 No 3: Love bade me welcome [5:53]
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

5 No 4: The Call 'Come, my way, my truth, my life' [1:59]
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

6 No 5: Antiphon 'Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing' [3:12]
Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

7 Fantasia on Christmas Carols 'This is the truth sent from above' [12:26]
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

8 Flos Campi [22:13]
English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor), Nobuko Imai (viola), Corydon Singers

Dona nobis pacem

CD2 1 Movement 1: Agnus Dei [3:10]
Judith Howarth (soprano), Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

2 Movement 2: Beat! beat! drums! [3:44]
Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

3 Movement 3: Reconciliation 'Word over all, beautiful as the sky' [6:34]
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Judith Howarth (soprano), Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

4 Movement 4: Dirge for two veterans 'The last sunbeam' [10:45]
Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

5 Movement 5: The Angel of Death has been abroad [10:46]
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Judith Howarth (soprano), Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

Four Hymns

6 No 1: Lord! Come away! [4:20]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Matthew Souter (viola), Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

7 No 2: Who is this fair one? [4:27]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Matthew Souter (viola), Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

8 No 3: Come love, come Lord [3:47]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Matthew Souter (viola), Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

9 No 4: Evening Hymn 'O gladsome light, O grace' [4:04]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Matthew Souter (viola), Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

10 Toward the Unknown Region 'Darest thou now O soul' [12:44]
Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

11 O clap your hands 'Psalm 47' [3:07]
Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

12 Lord, thou hast been our refuge 'Psalm 90' [7:46]
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

The Pilgrim's Progress

CD3

1 Movement 01: Prologue 'As I walked through the wildness of this world I lighted on a certain place' [5:17]
Sir John Gielgud (speaker), Richard Pasco (speaker), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

2 Movement 02: The Kingdom 'Neighbours, wherefore are you come?' [3:17]
Sir John Gielgud (speaker), Richard Pasco (speaker), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

3 Movement 03: The Gate 'What dost thou here, Christian?' [2:59]
Sir John Gielgud (speaker), Richard Pasco (speaker), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

4 Movement 04: The Way 'Who is there? Whence come ye?' [4:24]
Sir John Gielgud (speaker), Richard Pasco (speaker), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

5 Movement 05: The Shepherd 'I beheld then that he came to the foot of the hill Difficulty' [3:40]
Sir John Gielgud (speaker), Richard Pasco (speaker), Aidan Oliver (treble), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

6 Movement 06: The Palace Beautiful 'Is thy strength so small? Fear not the lions' [4:52]
Sir John Gielgud (speaker), Richard Pasco (speaker), Ursula Howells (speaker), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

7 Movement 07: Apollyon 'The next day they took him in to the armoury' [5:03]
Sir John Gielgud (speaker), Richard Pasco (speaker), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

8 Movement 08: Vanity Fair 'The I heard sounds of merriment and junketing' [6:11]
Sir John Gielgud (speaker), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

9 Movement 09: The Trial 'At last things came to an hubbub and great stir in the fair' [7:19]
Sir John Gielgud (speaker), Richard Pasco (speaker), Corydon Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

10 Movement 10: Giant Despair 'But he that over-rules all things so wrought it about that Christian for that time escaped his tormentors' [4:43]
Sir John Gielgud (speaker), Richard Pasco (speaker), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

11 Movement 11: The Delectable Mountains 'I went then, till I came to the Delectable Mountains' [14:20]
Sir John Gielgud (speaker), Richard Pasco (speaker), Ursula Howells (speaker), Corydon Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

12 Movement 12: Epilogue 'Now, listener, I have told my dream to thee' [1:41]
Richard Pasco (speaker), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

CD4

1 A song of thanksgiving [15:57]
Sir John Gielgud (speaker), Lynne Dawson (soprano), The London Oratory Junior Choir, Corydon Singers, John Scott (organ), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

Three Choral Hymns

2 No 1: Easter Hymn [3:05]
Corydon Singers, Roger Judd (organ), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

3 No 2: Christmas Hymn [5:50]
Corydon Singers, Roger Judd (organ), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

4 No 3: Whitsunday Hymn [3:24]
John Bowen (tenor), Corydon Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

5 Magnificat [14:11]
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Corydon Singers, Duke Dobing (flute), Roger Judd (organ), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

6 The shepherds of the delectable mountains [21:37]
Bryn Terfel (baritone), Alan Opie (baritone), Adrian Thompson (tenor), Jonathan Best (bass), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Linda Kitchen (soprano), Corydon Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

7 The Hundredth Psalm [7:46]
Corydon Singers, Roger Judd (organ), City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Best (conductor)

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