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James Ross Kent Sinfonia - Royal Throne Of Kings [CD]

James Ross Kent Sinfonia - Royal Throne Of Kings [CD]

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Ralph Vaughan Williams loved Shakespeare, and it inspired his music throughout his long composing career. This album is a collection of some of that music, much of it now heard for the first time.

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In 1912 and 1913 Vaughan Williams composed and conducted music for Shakespeare plays in the Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, where Sir Frank Benson presented plays for many years. He composed some new music, but preferred to use music of Shakespeare's own time whenever possible. The album includes a Henry IV Suite assembled from the surviving cues by Malcolm Riley, and a Stratford Suite, put together from a number of plays by Nathaniel Lew.

Vaughan Williams wrote a Henry V Overture in 1913, but the full score has long since been lost. Twenty years later, he wrote an overture for brass with the same title, based on that 1913 overture, but it was developed in a completely different way. Some of the orchestral parts have survived at Stratford, and David Owen Norris was able to put the original version together for this recording. The comparison between the two versions is very interesting -the later version may be heard on ALBCD052 Vaughan Williams on Brass.\r

Nathaniel Lew has arranged a Richard II Concert Fantasy, using incidental music commissioned from Vaughan Williams by the BBC in 1944, but not used at the time.

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'Unfailingly sympathetic performances, one and all, with top notch production values and exemplary presentation to match.' \x96 Gramophone

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'As a stand-alone 'new' work, it is actually rather impressive and well played by the fify-or-so-strong Kent Sinfonia. Lew has skilfully arranged the music to create a dramatic logic and arc independent of the original play's narrative.' \x96 Music Web International

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'This is the most intriguing disc I have reviewed so far this year. Virtually all the works are heard here for the first time. Often, they have been arranged or realised by hands other than Ralph Vaughan Williams. This explores a corner of his catalogue which I know but never imagined I would hear.' \x96 Music Web International

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'The disc enables us to hear the composer's varied responses to these dramatic stimuli, but of as much interest is the knowledge that the mine of unrecorded, unplayed Vaughan Williams is running out and this may well be one of the last major discs of his undiscovered orchestral music.' \x96 Planet Hugill

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'The collection of music takes Shakespeare as its link, but the vision of Ralph Vaughan Williams always drives it.' \x96Interlude

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'This immensely rewarding collection is distinguished on many counts, beginning with sterling performances by the James Ross-conducted Kent Sinfonia, soprano Eloise Irving, and pianist Malcolm Riley.' \x96 Textura

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'The performances throughout are consistently very good indeed, and it is good to hear the first-class Kent Sinfonia on disc in this repertoire.' \x96 Musical Opinion (5 stars)

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'The Three Shakespeare Songs from 1925 are rather lovely [\x85] and Eloise Iving's sweet, nicely enunciated performances may well persuade other singers to take them up.' \x96 BBC Music Magazine (3 stars)

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'This latest release presents an engaging overview of Vaughan Williams' musings on the great Shakespearian era.' - Classical Music Sentinel

Richard III: My Kingdom for a Horse

Richard II Concert Fantasy

The Willow Song

Henry IV Suite: 1 Induction

Henry IV Suite: 2 Falstaff and Prince Hal

Henry IV Suite: 3 Interlude - Princess Royal

Henry IV Suite: 4 Music to My Weary Spirit

Henry IV Suite: 5 Arrest

Henry IV Suite: 6 Gloria Tibi Domine

Henry IV Suite: 7 Happy Life

Orpheus With His Lute (1903)

Henry V Overture (1913)

Three Songs From Shakespeare: Take O Take Those Lips Away

Three Songs From Shakespeare: When Icicles Hang by the Wall

Three Songs From Shakespeare: Orpheus With His Lute

Stratford Suite: 1 Royal March

Stratford Suite: 2 Greensleeves

Stratford Suite: 3 Dances

Stratford Suite: 4 Intermezzo

Stratford Suite: 5 Solemn March

Stratford Suite: 6 Finale

Dirge for Fidele

Two Shakespeare Sketches: I The Wind and the Rain

Two Shakespeare Sketches: II It Was a Lover and His Lass

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Ralph Vaughan Williams loved Shakespeare, and it inspired his music throughout his long composing career. This album is a collection of some of that music, much of it now heard for the first time.

r

In 1912 and 1913 Vaughan Williams composed and conducted music for Shakespeare plays in the Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, where Sir Frank Benson presented plays for many years. He composed some new music, but preferred to use music of Shakespeare's own time whenever possible. The album includes a Henry IV Suite assembled from the surviving cues by Malcolm Riley, and a Stratford Suite, put together from a number of plays by Nathaniel Lew.

Vaughan Williams wrote a Henry V Overture in 1913, but the full score has long since been lost. Twenty years later, he wrote an overture for brass with the same title, based on that 1913 overture, but it was developed in a completely different way. Some of the orchestral parts have survived at Stratford, and David Owen Norris was able to put the original version together for this recording. The comparison between the two versions is very interesting -the later version may be heard on ALBCD052 Vaughan Williams on Brass.r

Nathaniel Lew has arranged a Richard II Concert Fantasy, using incidental music commissioned from Vaughan Williams by the BBC in 1944, but not used at the time.

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'Unfailingly sympathetic performances, one and all, with top notch production values and exemplary presentation to match.' x96 Gramophone

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'As a stand-alone 'new' work, it is actually rather impressive and well played by the fify-or-so-strong Kent Sinfonia. Lew has skilfully arranged the music to create a dramatic logic and arc independent of the original play's narrative.' x96 Music Web International

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'This is the most intriguing disc I have reviewed so far this year. Virtually all the works are heard here for the first time. Often, they have been arranged or realised by hands other than Ralph Vaughan Williams. This explores a corner of his catalogue which I know but never imagined I would hear.' x96 Music Web International

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'The disc enables us to hear the composer's varied responses to these dramatic stimuli, but of as much interest is the knowledge that the mine of unrecorded, unplayed Vaughan Williams is running out and this may well be one of the last major discs of his undiscovered orchestral music.' x96 Planet Hugill

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'The collection of music takes Shakespeare as its link, but the vision of Ralph Vaughan Williams always drives it.' x96Interlude

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'This immensely rewarding collection is distinguished on many counts, beginning with sterling performances by the James Ross-conducted Kent Sinfonia, soprano Eloise Irving, and pianist Malcolm Riley.' x96 Textura

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'The performances throughout are consistently very good indeed, and it is good to hear the first-class Kent Sinfonia on disc in this repertoire.' x96 Musical Opinion (5 stars)

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'The Three Shakespeare Songs from 1925 are rather lovely [x85] and Eloise Iving's sweet, nicely enunciated performances may well persuade other singers to take them up.' x96 BBC Music Magazine (3 stars)

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'This latest release presents an engaging overview of Vaughan Williams' musings on the great Shakespearian era.' - Classical Music Sentinel

Richard III: My Kingdom for a Horse

Richard II Concert Fantasy

The Willow Song

Henry IV Suite: 1 Induction

Henry IV Suite: 2 Falstaff and Prince Hal

Henry IV Suite: 3 Interlude - Princess Royal

Henry IV Suite: 4 Music to My Weary Spirit

Henry IV Suite: 5 Arrest

Henry IV Suite: 6 Gloria Tibi Domine

Henry IV Suite: 7 Happy Life

Orpheus With His Lute (1903)

Henry V Overture (1913)

Three Songs From Shakespeare: Take O Take Those Lips Away

Three Songs From Shakespeare: When Icicles Hang by the Wall

Three Songs From Shakespeare: Orpheus With His Lute

Stratford Suite: 1 Royal March

Stratford Suite: 2 Greensleeves

Stratford Suite: 3 Dances

Stratford Suite: 4 Intermezzo

Stratford Suite: 5 Solemn March

Stratford Suite: 6 Finale

Dirge for Fidele

Two Shakespeare Sketches: I The Wind and the Rain

Two Shakespeare Sketches: II It Was a Lover and His Lass

Track Listing

Richard III: My Kingdom for a Horse

Richard II Concert Fantasy

The Willow Song

Henry IV Suite: 1 Induction

Henry IV Suite: 2 Falstaff and Prince Hal

Henry IV Suite: 3 Interlude - Princess Royal

Henry IV Suite: 4 Music to My Weary Spirit

Henry IV Suite: 5 Arrest

Henry IV Suite: 6 Gloria Tibi Domine

Henry IV Suite: 7 Happy Life

Orpheus With His Lute (1903)

Henry V Overture (1913)

Three Songs From Shakespeare: Take O Take Those Lips Away

Three Songs From Shakespeare: When Icicles Hang by the Wall

Three Songs From Shakespeare: Orpheus With His Lute

Stratford Suite: 1 Royal March

Stratford Suite: 2 Greensleeves

Stratford Suite: 3 Dances

Stratford Suite: 4 Intermezzo

Stratford Suite: 5 Solemn March

Stratford Suite: 6 Finale

Dirge for Fidele

Two Shakespeare Sketches: I The Wind and the Rain

Two Shakespeare Sketches: II It Was a Lover and His Lass

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