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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vaughan Williams, we are proud to reissue this outstanding symphony cycle. Started in 1999 by Richard Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra, this was the first Vaughan Williams symphony cycle to be recorded in Surround Sound and released on Hybrid SACD. Tragically, Richard Hickox died before he was able to complete the project – a task that was undertaken by Sir Andrew Davis and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. This reissue is priced at 6 discs for the price of 2, and features almost an hour of bonus material – broadcast interviews with Sir Adrian Boult and Sir John Barbirolli, and reminiscences from both Ursula Vaughan Williams and the composer himself.
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Reviews
Sound 10 Booklet 10 Repertoire 8 (first two Symphonies) to 10 Interpretation 10
“…Here is a highly recommendable sum, which invites you to discover exciting and little-known music in very high quality interpretations (they can easily measure up to the more famous versions of Boult / Warner and Haitink / Warner) and excellent sound recordings, offered in addition at a very affordable price. Those who try the adventure will not regret it.”
Patrice Lieberman – Crescendo magazine.be – 1 February 2023
“…highly accomplished …”
Simon Thompson – MusicWeb-International.com – 2 December 2022
“A fascinating release … The performances are uniformly excellent … recommendable… “ *****
Robert Matthew-Walker – Musical Opinion Quarterly – October-December 2022
“… recommendable … this is a fine tribute to the sterling efforts of first-rate VW interpreters…”
Rob Cowan – Gramophone magazine – October 2022
*** Good Album
Thomas Deschamps – Classica magazine (France) – September 2022
“… this box can be strongly recommended, given that the recordings of 2 to 6 are amongst the very best available. Here we have proof of VW’s enormous generosity of spirit, his exuberance and warmness of heart, and the nobility which still speaks with blazing clarity to all of us today.”
Geoffrey Atkinson – British Music Society – 13 July 2022
Performance ****½ Sonics (Multichannel) ****½
“… this Chandos cycle spanning 20 years is a unique and more than worthy contribution to the celebration of the Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary.”
Graham Williams – HRAudio.net – 13 June 2022
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