Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Louis Lortie (piano), Sarah Jeffrey (oboe), Teng Li (viola), Toronto Symphony Orchestra
[ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Friday 20 July 2018
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With this celebratory release completing his fourteen-year tenure as Music Director of the TSO, Peter Oundjian conducts an exquisite Vaughan Williams programme, supported by an all-Canadian cast of star soloists.
In the programme notes of the concert preceding the recording, Oundjian declared: 'Ralph Vaughan Williams was possibly England's most significant composer, and he is a personal favourite of mine. This [recording] presents some of his finest works, featuring soloists from the Orchestra as well as some of Canada's most notable solo artists, and the Elmer Iseler Singers. The lyrical and engaging Oboe Concerto is rarely heard, but it is one of his most inspired works. Serenade to Music showcases his exquisite vocal writing, which also figures prominently in the ravishingly beautiful Flos Campi, so surprisingly scored for solo viola, choir, and chamber orchestra. The Piano Concerto is more dramatic, with a juggernaut opening and a brilliant fugal finale.'
Tracks:
1. Serenade to Music (1938)
Concerto (1944)
2. I Rondo Pastorale. Allegro moderato - Cadenza - [Allegro moderato] - Cadenza - Tempo
3. II Minuet and Musette. Allegro moderato - Musette - [Minuet]
4. III Finale (Scherzo). Presto - [Cadenza] - Doppio più lento - [Cadenza] - Doppio più mosso - Lento - Presto
Flos Campi (1924-25)
(Flower of the Field)
Suite for Solo Viola, Small Chorus, and Small Orchestra
To Lionel Tertis
5.1 Lento (senza misura) - (Tempo)
6. 2 Andante con moto - [senza misura]
7.3 Lento (senza misura) - [A tempo] - Allegro moderato (senza misura) - Allegro moderato - Allargando
8.4 Moderato alla marcia
9.5 Andante quasi lento (Largamente) - Largamente - A tempo (poco animato) - Largamente - Moderato tranquillo
10.6 (Moderato tranquillo) - (Lento) (Tempo del principio) (Senza misura) - (A tempo) (Tranquillo)
Concerto (1926-31)
in C major • in C-Dur • en ut majeur
for Piano and Orchestra
To Harriet Cohen
11.I Toccata. Allegro moderato - Poco animato - Tempo I - Poco animato
12.II Romanza. Lento - Poco più mosso - Poco animato - Tranquillo - Tempo I
13.III Fuga chromatica, con Finale alla tedesca. Allegro - Fuga - Cadenza
