Editor’s Choice – Orchestral Section
“Anyone looking for an introduction to the music of Vaughan Williams ought to look no further than this new release of the composer’s most popular orchestral works …The three works, however, which are especially memorable on this recording are the wonderfully spacious interpretation of The Lark Ascending, the edifying fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and perhaps epicentral to Vaughan Williams’s character, Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’. The clarity of James Ehnes’s playing, with virtually flawless intonation is relaxed and profoundly lyrical … this is a must!”