Hallé – Vaughan Williams
This is England’s most intelligent conductor meeting the country’s greatest symphonist with its most consistently excellent orchestra: hard to better…
Vaughan Williams – Symphonies 4 and 6
These are the two symphonies in which Vaughan Williams takes on the turbulence of the 1930s and 40s…
Vaughan Williams – A Masque
Job, apart from being a marvellous score and equally marvellous piece of storytelling, is a much more important work than its relatively rare performances suggest. Between 1927 and 1930 it brought together some of the most fascinating people in the artistic life of Britain. The idea for the masque came from Geoffrey Keynes, John Maynard’s brother, who had been buying up copies of William Blake’s works since he was a student in the early years of last century…