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1 apr 2022 · Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge; Four Hymns; The House of Life by Nicky Spence, Julius Drake, Piatti Quartet, Timothy Ridout released in 2022. Find album revi
Download all MP3. 16-bit VBR. £3.60. View whole album. Reviews. ‘Nicky Spence and colleagues serve up a nourishing feast of Vaughan Williams’s vocal music, culminating in a performance of On Wenlock Edge which, in its thrilling assurance, strength of imagination and rapt instinct, inclines me to rank it alongside the very finest I know …
The major work present here is the 1909 song cycle On Wenlock Edge, for tenor, piano and string quartet, a setting of poms by A.E.Houseman, and often recorded. It contains what, for me, is the most beautiful and memorable of RVW’s songs, From Far, from Eve and Morning.
4 ott 2022 · Music Reviews: Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge; Four Hymns; The House of Life by Nicky Spence, Julius Drake, Piatti Quartet & Timothy Ridout released in 2022. Genre: Classical.
9 feb 2024 · The Four hymns set to words by Jeremy Taylor, Richard Crawshaw, Isaac Watts, and a free translation poem from third-century Greek by Robert Bridges begin this lovely recital. Nicky Spence impeccably brings out RVW's musical lines with such sensitivity that the beauty makes the music alluring.
Download all MP3. 16-bit VBR. £8.99. Other. options. Nicky Spence and friends perfectly capture the urgency and thrill of the opening of On Wenlock Edge; with its varied and imaginatively chosen couplings, this is an album which every RVW aficionado will want to own. » More. Reviews.
Vaughan Williams. By my reckoning it presents the third (and best) rendering of On Wenlock Edge released by Hyperion, the label’s first complete House of Life cycle, and its only offering of Four Hymns in the work’s scoring for tenor, piano, and viola (as opposed to tenor, viola, and strings).1 While the accompanying folk song arrangements ...
