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Composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Artist(s):
Joan Rodgers
Christopher Maltman

Conductor:
Paul Daniel

Background: Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony is both a splendid homage to the English late Romantic choral tradition of Elgar and Parry, and a forerunner of Benjamin Britten’s Spring Symphony. While overtly descriptive of the sea in its many moods, the work nevertheless marks a radical departure from precedent.

In his desire to free English music from the Austro-German framework, Vaughan Williams combines high art with folk-inflected music. In his setting of verses by Walt Whitman, the composer invites an analogy between the voyager at sea and the journeying of the soul towards the unknown regions on earth, as the ship finally vanishes over the horizon.

CATALOGUE NR: 8557059
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.77 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Sep-2003

COMPOSER: Ralph Vaughan Williams
TRACKS: Symphony No.1 - A Sea Symphony.
ORCHESTRA: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Paul Daniel
ARTISTS: Joan Rodgers   Christopher Maltman   Bournemouth Symphony Chorus  

- Oct-2003 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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