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Monday - Vaughan Williams 150: Symphony No 6

Martyn Brabbins conducts the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra in a new recording of Vaughan Williams's Sixth Symphony, plus music by the composer's influences and contemporaries

Presented by Ian Skelly, starting a week of afternoons as part of Radio 3's 150th anniversary celebrations of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Throughout the week Ian will be introducing live recordings, by 大象传媒 ensembles and from around Europe, of music by Vaughan Williams alongside some of the composers who influenced him, his contemporaries and students.

Today, Martyn Brabbins conducts the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra in a new recording of Vaughan Williams's Sixth Symphony, the King's Singers perform Tallis and Stanford at the Occitanie Montpellier Festival, we hear the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by RVW's teacher Ravel, and Michael Collins plays Finzi's Five Bagatelles.

Including:

Tallis: God grant with grace
King鈥檚 Singers

Ravel: 叠辞濒茅谤辞
Frankfurt Radio SO
Alain Altinoglu, conductor

Vaughan Williams: Over Hill, Over Dale (from Three Shakespeare Songs)
Byrd: Vigilate, from 'Cantiones Sacrae' (1589)
King's Singers

c.2.30pm
Finzi: Five Bagatelles, Op. 23
Michael Collins, clarinet/director
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra

Vaughan Williams: England, my England (1941)
Roderick Williams, baritone
大象传媒 Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

c.3pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Vaughan: Williams Bushes and Briars
Stanford: Quick! We have but a second
King鈥檚 Singers

Stanford: Irish rhapsody No. 4 in A minor Op.141 (The Fisherman of Loch Neagh and what he saw)
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor

Gustav Holst: The Perfect Fool
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis, conductor

2 hours, 31 minutes

Music Played

  • Thomas Tallis

    O nata lux

    Choir: Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony no.5 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Vaughan williams: Symphonies nos. 4 & 5: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra, Davis.
    • Teldec.
    • 6.
  • Thomas Tallis

    God grant with grace

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
  • Maurice Ravel

    叠辞濒茅谤辞

    Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alain Altinoglu.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Over hill, over dale

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
  • William Byrd

    Vigilate, from 'Cantiones Sacrae' (1589)

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Five Bagatelles, Op. 23

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
    • British Clarinet Concertos Volume 2.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    England, my England (1941)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Choir: 大象传媒 Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No.6 in E Minor

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Bushes and Briars

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Quick ! We have but a second

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Irish Rhapsody No 4 in A minor (The Fisherman of Loch Neagh and what he saw)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Constant Lambert

    Prize Fight

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Lambert: Piano concerto (1924): 大象传媒CO, Wordsworth.
    • ASV.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Pie Jesu (Requiem, Op.48)

    Music Arranger: Louis Lortie. Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Chandos.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Perfect Fool

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.

Broadcast

  • Mon 10 Oct 2022 14:00