Vaughan Williams - Elgar - Holst - Darke - Howells
) | Label: NCL Catalog: 8574416 Format: COMPACT DISC Ford, Martin; Smith, Julia; Limb, Elizabeth; Williams, Roderick; Jurka, Kate; Vasari Singers; Limb, Rachel; Backhouse, JeremyFeaturing Vaughan Williams’ masterly and intensely personal Five Mystical Songs, this album reflects on the sources of inspiration of some of his sacred choral works, alongside gems of 19th- and early-20th-century English church music. Often setting the poetry of the King James Bible, the finely spun melodies and sensitivity to word-rhythm of composers from S.S. Wesley to Herbert Howells result in a uniquely British form of expression.  Price: $21.98 |