Invocation To Music - choral music and classical song . . .

The list author says:
	"An excellent recording of an epic drama that occupied Vaughan Williams for decades."

The list author says:
	"Della Jones puts her heart and soul into it the magnificent "Soul's Ransom" and "The Lotos Eaters", a setting of Tennyson’s Choric Song.  Re-released as "Parry - Choral Works" (B000E3LI9U)."

The list author says:
	"John Shirley Quirk’s rendition of Five Mystical Songs is the best on record; and Janet Baker’s rendition of the Choral Fantasia is excellent, as is Wilfred Browns' of Dies Natalis."

The list author says:
	"It’s a pity this is ADD, as the soloists are excellent. The Requiem is perhaps a little harsh even for an atheist requiem; it’s worth investigating at least for its final movement which is enchanting."

The list author says:
	"An incredible setting of Wordsworth’s brilliant Intimations of Immortality.  The EMI recording featuring Philip Langridge is equally good (B00000DOCQ)."

The list author says:
	"The Choral Symphony is a setting of selected text from various poems by Keats, including the entire Ode on a Graecian Urn.  Lynne Dawson is lovely, I only wish Norma Burrowes had recorded it too."

The list author says:
	"Parry set Robert Bridges entire ode; it’s wonderful.  This is the work’s sole recording and I cannot fault it.  Re-released as "Parry - Choral Works" (B000E3LI9U)."

The list author says:
	"Still awaiting a perfect recording, Vaughan Williams’ Shakespeare setting, Serenade to Music, is very beautiful.  Try "A Sea Symphony" as well (B0000AQRYM / B00006AAV7 / B000003F2G / B0000647HN)."

The list author says:
	"The Choral Hymns uniquely scored and they are dramatic, beautiful, calming and intriguing in turns.  The evocative Hymn to Dionysus is a setting of a translation of a text from Euripides’ The Baccae."

The list author says:
	"The Cloud Messenger is an impressive and transporting setting of an ancient Hindu tale by Kalidasa.  The amazing Ode to Death is a setting of part of a poem by Walt Whitman."

The list author says:
	"A recording of the highest quality - the Holst Singers give a crystal clear and poignant performance.  For me, its highlight is the Seven Partsongs (poems by Robert Bridges)."

The list author says:
	"Two delightful choral ballets and a tuneful and engaging Old English Ballad for chorus and orchestra."

The list author says:
	"An excellent recording of his Anglo-Saxon riddles, but for a brilliant Pastoral go for the Chandos recording with Della Jones (B00000IM6R)."

The list author says:
	"The lovelorn world of Sappho: Bantock set to music an adaptation of all that remains of the work of the Greek poetess who lived ca700BC.  Susan Bickley is superb."

The list author says:
	"A selection from Bantock’s lush setting of the biblical Song of Solomon.  Now we await a complete recording of his setting of the entire Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam."

The list author says:
	"Atalanta in Calydon and Vanity of Vanities: these are choral symphonies in the fullest sense, lacking orchestral accompaniment, but utilising the choir almost as if it were an orchestra."

The list author says:
	"A vocally original chamber opera in one act; unusual, moving, startling in subject and libretto.  "The Dream-City" is a pleasing song cycle orchestrated by Colin Matthews; it needs a better soloist."

The list author says:
	"This utterly spellbinding opera should never have been forgotten.  My Gran remembers it fondly.   Beautiful solo songs and marvellous choral songs too."

The list author says:
	"As expected, Christie, Les Arts Florissants and the singers excel on this recording of Purcell's semi-opera based on A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Amusing, soothing, exiciting, varied and colourful."

The list author says:
	"or B000002ZRR.  A wonderful ode "on the fairies, aerial beings and witches of Shakespeare.""

The list author says:
	"The the storm chorus will blow you away!  Like Mozart, Linley possessed a melodic genius.  Try Henry Rowley Bishop's Shakespeare settings also (B000062URA)."

The list author says:
	"A tuneful serenata by William Boyce with lovely singing from Bronwen Mills and especially from Howard Crook."

The list author says:
	"A pastoral oratorio.  Surprisingly, this is the only recording on which it is performed in English.  There is one English language recording of The Creation oratorio also (B000004CXT)."

The list author says:
	"I was surprised to find that Emma Kirkby, whom I rarely appreciate, is delightful on certain songs (e.g. Invocation to Nature); Rufus Müller's is too.  Try "The Romantic Muse" also (B000002ZUT)."