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Composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Conductor:
Vernon Handley

Background: In 1909, Vaughan Williams was asked by the Greek Play Committee in Cambridge to write the incidental music for a performance of Aristophanes' comedy The Wasps. Whilst we seldom hear the incidental music today, the overture has always proved to be a winning concert piece. Many of Delius's orchestral works are scored for very large forces and this made performances difficult to mount, but friends managed to persuade him to write for small orchestral groups, thus making his work more accessible to both performers and concert promoters.

Serenade to Music was originally written for sixteen solo singers and orchestra, to celebrate Sir Henry Wood's fifty years as a conductor, and it was he who conducted the first performance of it at a Promenade Concert in the Queen's Hall in 1938.

CATALOGUE NR: CHAN10174X
RECORD LABEL: Chandos Classics
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 5.86 including VAT, or £ 5.10 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 09-Feb-2004

COMPOSER: Ralph Vaughan Williams  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Overture to The Wasps. Serenade to Music (Vaughan Williams). Two Pieces for Small Orchestra : Summer Night on the River / On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (Delius). Summer Evening for Orchestra (Delius). Air and Dance for String Orchestra (Delius).
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Vernon Handley

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