Dimitri Mitropoulos - Vaughan Williams Live Vol. 4 (2023) [Official Digital Download]

SOMM RECORDINGS continues its acclaimed Vaughan Williams Live series celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with Volume 4 featuring his signature Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, the Concerto for Two Pianos and Eighth Symphony in recordings conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos and Sir John Barbirolli. The Tallis Fantasia is a live recording from Carnegie Hall in 1943 with Mitropoulos, a committed advocate for Vaughan Williams’ music, conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. They are also heard in the Concerto for Two Pianos, again from Carnegie Hall in 1952, when the soloists were Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, who forged a widely popular and critically acclaimed piano duo partnership in America in the middle of the last century. Recorded in Manchester’s Free Trade Hall in 1964, the Symphony No.8 is blazingly conducted by its dedicatee, Sir John Barbirolli, leading the Hallé Orchestra.

TRACKLIST

1. New York Philharmonic - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
2. Arthur Whittemore - I. Toccata. Allegro moderato
3. Arthur Whittemore - Ii. Romanza. Lento
4. Arthur Whittemore - Iii. Fuga chromatica con Finale alla tedesca
5. The Hallé Orchestra - I. Fantasia (Variazione senza Tema): Moderato
6. The Hallé Orchestra - Ii. Scherzo alla marcia (per stromenti a fiato): Allegro alla marcia
7. The Hallé Orchestra - Iii. Cavatina (per stromenti ad arco): Lento espressivo
8. The Hallé Orchestra - Iv. Toccata. Moderato maestoso



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