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~ Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer), Joyful Company of Singers (Performer), Peter Broadbent (Conductor), Ørjan Hartveit (Performer), Alistair Young (Performer)
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  • Performer: Joyful Company of Singers, Ørjan Hartveit, Alistair Young
  • Conductor: Peter Broadbent
  • Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Audio CD (22 Sep 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Albion
  • ASIN: B001EOOC0A
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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1. No longer mourn for me (Sonnet 71)
2. Echo's Lament for Narcissus
3. Sweet Day
4. Willow Song
5. O Mistress Mine
6. Come away, Death
7. Linden Lea (arranged by Arthur Somervell)
8. Ring out your bells
9. Rest
10. Fein would I change that note
11. Alister McAlpine's Lament
12. The Winter is Gone
13. Mannin Veen (Dear Mona)
14. Our love goes not to English skies
15. Loch Lomond
16. The Mermaid
17. A Farmer's Son so Sweet
18. The Turtle Dove
19. The New Commonwealth
20. Horses of the Sun
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This is the fourth disc from Albion Records which is part of the Vaughan Williams Society. Albion Records Ltd, a not-for-profit record label, is dedicated to recording rare 20th century English classical music, concentrating on Ralph Vaughan Williams. The label is a subsidiary of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society and each of the CDs will contain world première recordings.

These vocal works were composed from 1895 and 1954 showing Vaughan Williams lifelong affection for the human voice.
Performed by the award winning Joyful Company of Singers, under Peter Broadbent, one of Europe's leading Chamber Choirs.

Recorded in the approximate order of composition this recording shows how much Vaughan Williams adapted his style over about sixty years.

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Joyful Company of Singers, Conducted by Peter Broadbent

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5.0 out of 5 stars Magical record of Vaughan Williams choral songs, 16 Oct 2008
By Garth Winter (Southern England) - See all my reviews
The Albion Records website suggests that this new cd, Where Hope Is Shining, may be the label's finest to date, and this is no insult to the previous three, for it is truly magical. For mixed chorus, namely the Joyful Company of Singers, directed by Peter Broadbent, it covers the composer's entire career from the 1890s to the 1950s in chronological order, and includes world première recordings such as Sun, Moon, Stars and Man, to words by Ursula Vaughan Williams.

It is worth listening to this record alongside another with which it shares half a dozen tracks: this is Over Hill, Over Dale, by the Holst Singers under Stephen Layton on the Hyperion label, which dates from 1995. Itself a splendid recording, it gives treatments of ethereal purity to Vaughan Williams' folk song settings. This disc has a rather more human acoustic with greater warmth, and certainly more attention to the dynamic range, so that the listener is aware of resources of great dramatic power in some of the songs. I would single out the folk song Mannin Veen, bravely tackled here in the original Manx, which takes on unsuspected depths of emotion, and a quite extraordinary Alister McAlpine's Lament, which had hitherto seemed merely plaintive but is now revealed as a very deeply-felt piece with some almost crazed choral writing in places.

Vaughan Williams' early work has often been seen as undistinctive and frankly rather ordinary, and indeed even the notes to this cd refer to the first track, a setting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 71, as "straightforward", which it is not, by any normal standards: and the second track, Echo's Lament for Narcissus, a setting from the same period in the mid-1890s, is even bolder, with melodic adventurousness and some mouth-watering suspensions, or crunches.

Also worthy of special mention is the arrangement of Henry Purcell's Our Love Goes Out To English Skies, a stirringly patriotic (in the best sense) ditty which ought to be considered as the next national anthem if Land Of Hope And Glory and Jerusalem fall by the wayside.

But the real jewel of the disc comes toward the end, in the form of Vaughan Williams' choral setting The New Commonwealth, described with masterly English understatement in Stephen Connock's notes as "remarkably moving". I was familiar with the tune - it had been used in the Prelude to the wartime film 49th Parallel - but I was unprepared for the sheer power and beauty of the vocal arrangement of this "glorious, noble, hymn-like melody". A very secular hymn, written to convey a message of hope in a grim post-war world. I defy anyone to listen to it without dissolving, and without being haunted by its wonderful words and music.

Attention has quite rightly, and very belatedly, been focused on Vaughan Williams in 2008, the 50th anniversary of his death, and there is a growing realisation that in his range, depth and sheer musical character he is the greatest composer England has had: and this lovely record is one more validation of that claim.
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