James Judd, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves (2003)
James Judd, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis; Concerto Grosso (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 245 Mb | Total time: 60:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.555867 | Recorded: 2001
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 245 Mb | Total time: 60:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.555867 | Recorded: 2001
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) may not have begun the trend toward English pastoral music in the early twentieth century, but he was certainly one of the movement’s leading practitioners. Starting as early as 1900 with his aptly named Bucolic Suite, the man continued to produce charming, serene, idyllic tunes for full orchestra, strings, and chorus right up until the time of his death. In this Naxos collection, English conductor James Judd leads the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in some of the composer’s most famous short works.
Fantasia on Greensleeves lends its name to the album, but I’m sure that’s only because it’s one of Vaughan Williams’s most-popular pieces. Judd takes it at a tempo that is a little more vigorous than we normally hear it, but which invests it with a new life and temperament. While this approach may seem a bit more distanced from its subject matter than that of some other conductors, Judd’s is a pleasant take on an old subject without doing any serious harm to the spirit of the work. The conductor’s rendering of the other pieces, like the Tallis Fantasia and Norfolk Rhapsody, seems more traditional, while his Fen Country appears more gentle and flowing than ever.
Concerto Grosso, the newest composition of the group, written in 1950, is also the least rustic. Vaughan Williams originally intended it for something like four hundred strings, a mighty big production, and while it shows only hints of the folk-music idiom the other pieces rather thrive on, it is perhaps the least Vaughan Williams-like and the least-familiar work in the set. Under Maestro Judd, however, it makes a nice contrast to the other melodies on the agenda, and Judd brings out most of the work’s splendor.
Performer:
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
James Judd, conductor
Tracklist:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
01. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
02. Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
03. In the Fen Country
04. Fantasia on Greensleeves
Concerto Grosso
05. Intrada
06. Burlesca Ostinata
07. Sarabande
08. Scherzo
09. March and Reprise
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James Judd, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves (2003)
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