Books+ Search Results
An Oxford elegy Whitsunday hymn ; Flos campi ; Sancta civitas
Uniform Title
Works. Selections
Title
An Oxford elegy [sound recording] ; Whitsunday hymn ; Flos campi ; Sancta civitas / Vaughan Williams.
Published
England : EMI Classics, p1999.
Physical Description
1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Issue number on container: CDM 7 67221 2.
First work for speaker, chorus & orchestra; 2nd work for mixed chorus & orchestra; 3rd work a suite for viola, (wordless) chorus & orchestra; 4th work an oratorio.
Words of the 1st work adapted from the Scholar gipsy & Thyrsis by Matthew Arnold; words of 2nd work by Miles Coverdale, after Luther; text of the 4th work various biblical souces. Third work contains printed words in the score from Song of Solomon (they are not performed), but the sung portions are wordless.
Compact disc.
Originally issued on analog discs in 1968 & 1969, except for 2nd work, previously unpublished.
Durations: 22:03; 3:46; 19:52; 31:16.
Program notes by Michael Kennedy & vocal texts (including the unspoken excerpts from Song of Solomon printed in the score of the 3rd work) inserted in container.
Recorded in the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, July 30-31, 1968 (1st-2nd works), and Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London, June 16, 1970 (3rd work) & Feb. 12, 1970 (4th work).
Format
Audio
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 26, 2006
Series
Performers
John Westbrook, speaker (1st work) ; Robin Doveton, tenor (2nd work) ; Cecil Aronowitz, viola (3rd work) ; Jacques Orchestra, (1st & 3rd works) ; Ian Partridge, tenor, John Shirley-Quirk, baritone, London Symphony Orchestra (4th work) ; Choir of King's College, Cambridge ; David Willcocks, conductor.
Issue number
7243 5 67221 2 5 EMI Classics
CDM 7 67221 2 EMI
Subjects
Also listed under
Jacques Orchestra.
London Symphony Orchestra.
King's College (University of Cambridge). Choir.
Bach Choir (London, England)
Bookmark As
Citation
