Recorded: 28th-30th June 2001, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand
One of the leading English composers of hi s generation, Vaughan Williams went some way towards creating a specifically English musical idiom. Altough he was highly influenced by folk-song as represented here most crealy in the Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 and in the Fantasia on Greensleeves, these works are far more than just direct quotations of familiar tunes, and have become orchestral favourites of the twentieth century.
Concerto Grosso: * Intrada * Burlesca Ostinata * Sarabande * Sherzo * March & Reprise |