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5 Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'

Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performers: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Lesley Hatfield
Recording date: 22 June 2008
Date of broadcast: 15 July 2008

The central tune - borrowed from an English folksong - runs lightly disguised through this piece. The story is of a rich man's greed and a poor man's need. Dying, one rises to Heaven, the other...

Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performers: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Lesley Hatfield
Recording date: 22 June 2008
Date of broadcast: 15 July 2008

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