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Vaughan Williams

Katie Derham presents a special edition of In Tune dedicated to the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, born 150 years ago today. Katie is joined by conductor Andrew Manze and writer Nigel Simeone, with live music from the Tippett Quartet and folk duo Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    March. Folk Songs from Somerset (English Folk Song Suite)

    Music Arranger: Philip Littlemore. Ensemble: Tredegar Band. Conductor: Ian Porthouse.
    • Albion Records.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    String Quartet No. 1 in G minor - 1st movement

    Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
  • Edward Elgar

    Mina

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Onyx.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Job: A Masque For Dancing - Scene VI: Dance Of Job's Comforters

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Job - A Masque For Dancing / Partita For Double String Orchestra.
    • EMI.
    • 06.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Serenade to Music

    Singer: Norma Burrowes. Singer: Sheila Armstrong. Singer: Susan Longfield. Singer: Marie Hayward. Singer: Alfreda Hodgson. Singer: Gloria Jennings. Singer: Shirley Minty. Singer: Meriel Dickinson. Singer: Ian Partridge. Singer: Bernard Dickerson. Singer: John Noble. Singer: Christopher Keyte. Singer: Wynford Evans. Singer: Richard Angas. Singer: John Carol Case. Singer: Kenneth Bowen. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Vaughan Williams: Serenade to music etc: Sir Adrian Boult.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    String Quartet No. 2 in A minor - 4th movement

    Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
  • Gustav Holst

    First Choral Symphony, Op.41: Scherzo

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Trad.

    Ca' the yowes

    Ensemble: Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    March past of the kitchen utensils (The Wasps: Aristophanic suite, No 3)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antarctica / The Wasps-Suite: Boult.
    • EMI.
    • 8.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    Sweeney Todd, Act 1: The Worst Pies in London

    Singer: Angela Lansbury. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Gemignani.
    • RCA.
  • Trad.

    Ca' the yowes

    Ensemble: Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ca' the Yowes

    Conductor: Christopher Bishop. Choir: London Madrigal Singers.
    • The Essential Vaughan Williams.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 203.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony no.7 'Sinfonia antartica' (2nd mvt)

    Narrator: Timothy West. Singer: Rowan Pierce. Performer: Graham Eccles. Choir: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 7 β€˜Sinfonia Antartica’ & 9.
    • ONYX.
    • 02.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia antartica' - III. Landscape. Lento

    Performer: Graham Eccles. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Chorus. Conductor: Andrew Manze. Narrator: Timothy West. Singer: Rowan Pierce.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 7 β€˜Sinfonia Antartica’ & 9.
    • ONYX.
  • Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell

    You, Golden

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 3, 'A Pastoral Symphony' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies, Vol. 2.
    • Onyx.
    • 3.

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  • Wed 12 Oct 2022 17:00

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