RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
(1872-1958)
premiere recording in this version
Suite from the music for the film
Scott of the Antarctic
41:12
Edited by Stephen Hogger
(No. 2 transcribed & orchestrated by Stephen Hogger)
Jonathan Scott
organ
1
1
Main Titles*
2:05
2
2
Prologue
1:56
3
3
Doom*
1:20
4
4
Sculpture Scene*
2:08
5
5
Ship's Departure*
1:14
6
6
Ice Floes*
4:48
7
7
Penguin Dance
0:53
8
8
Aurora*
2:54
9
9
Pony March
0:55
10
10
Blizzard
2:02
11
11
Distant Glacier
2:07
12
12
Climbing the Glacier
1:10
13
13
Scott on the Glacier*
2:23
14
14
Snow Plain*
3:11
15
15
The Return
1:41
16
16
Descending the Glacier*
2:37
17
17
The Deaths of Evans and Oates*
5:17
18
18
End Titles
2:31
* denotes premiere recording
Merryn Gamba soprano
Coastal Command Suite
23:43
19
1
Prelude
1:40
20
2
The Hebrides
2:06
21
3
U-boat Alert
2:54
22
4
Taking-off at Night
2:00
23
5
The Hudsons take-off from Iceland
2:21
24
6
Dawn Patrol (Quiet Determination)
4:01
25
7
Battle of the Beauforts
3:52
26
8
Finale
4:49
premiere recording
27
The People's Land
13:17
Edited by Stephen Hogger
12 & 21 March 2002
premiere recording in this suite
49th Parallel
38:43
Suite edited by Stephen Hogger
28
Prelude [opening titles]
2:13
29
Prologue
11:20
30
Control Room Alert
2:03
31
Hudson Bay Post
1:27
32
Looting the Store
0:46
33
Death of Kühnecke
1:57
34
Hutterite Settlement (a) Anna's Volkslied
3:14
Emily Gray soprano
35
Hutterite Settlement (b) The Wheat Harvest
1:47
36
Winnipeg I
2:50
37
Winnipeg II
1:08
38
Nazi March
3:15
39
Indian Music I
0:29
40
Indian Music II
1:00
41
Indian Music III
0:46
42
Nazis on the run & The Lake in the Mountains
2:08
43
Prelude [closing titles]
2:12
The music for the opening and closing titles is published by Oxford University Press as
Prelude to the '49th Parallel'
premiere recording of complete version
44
The Dim Little Island
7:36
Partially reconstructed by Stephen Hogger
Moderato - Allegro moderato - Lento - Adagio
Martin Hindmarsh tenor
premiere recording in this suite
The England of Elizabeth
24:22
Suite edited by Stephen Hogger
45
I
Titles. Allegro maestoso - Street scene - Countryside.
9:40
Andante tranquillo - Tudor houses. Lento - Portraits. Allegro maestoso - Elizabeth. Allegro maestoso - Hatfield - Tintern. Lento - King's College Cambridge. Andante
46
II
Books. Andante con moto - Seamen. Allegro animato -
3:32
Dance. Allegro moderato - Country wedding. Allegro vivace - London. Lento
47
III
Stratford. Andante tranquillo - Maps - Red Indians - River Avon - Charlcote.
5:24
Lento - Deer. Più mosso - Road to London. Allegretto - Armada. Allegro - The Aftermath. Largo sostenuto
48
IV
Treasures. Allegretto (Tempo da Gavotte) - New houses.
2:14
Allegro maestoso - Yeoman interior. Allegretto tranquillo
49
V
King's College. Largo - Rive Avon. Andante - Final scenes.
3:29
Allegro maestoso
30 September-1 October 2003
The Story of a Flemish Farm
25:08
Suite from the film
The Flemish Farm
50
1
The Flag Flutters in the Wind
2:39
51
2
Night by the Sea - Farewell to the Flag -
2:25
52
3
Dawn in the Old Barn - The Parting of the Lovers
5:45
53
4
In the Café
2:22
54
5
The Major Goes to Face his Fate -
3:12
55
6
The Dead Man's Kit -
4:23
56
7
The Wanderings of the Flag
4:21
premiere recording
57
The Loves of Joanna Godden
15:13
Music to the film
Edited by Stephen Hogger
Lento - Andante moderato - Allegro tranquillo - Andante - Allegro - Allegretto - Andante - Lento
premiere recording
Bitter Springs
25:57
Music to the film
Composed by Vaughan Williams and Ernest Irving (1878-1953)
Edited by Stephen Hogger
58
1&2
Main Titles and Opening Music
4:30
59
3
Rocks
2:20
60
4
First Desert
1:34
61
5
Waterhole
2:12
62
6
End of the Trek
2:45
63
7
Axes
0:29
64
8
Kangaroos
2:00
65
9
Boomerang
1:37
66
10
Housewarming
1:37
67
11
Hunters
0:39
68
12
Fire
1:46
69
13
Abos Retreat
1:16
70
14
Warragani Boy
0:40
71
15
Ma and Abos
0:55
72
16
Round Up
1:36
22 & 23 June 2005
Rumon Gamba