The Stage Works - A Masterpiece and a Problem Opera
Donald Macleod continues his survey of the stage works of Vaughan Williams, with an astonishingly bleak and intense one-act opera based on a play by J.M Synge, and a less successful "romantic extravaganza".
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
With Rue my Heart is Laden (from Along the field)
Performer: Ruth Golden (soprano)/ Nancy Bean (violin)
- Koch 3-7168-2H1.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Riders to the Sea – Extract
Performer: Linda Finnie (Maurya)/ Lynne Dawson (Cathleen)/ Ingrid Attrot (Nora)/ Northern Sinfonia/ Richard Hickox (cond)
- CHAN 9392.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Poisoned Kiss – Extract: Act 3
Performer: Anne Collins (Empress)/ Adrian Partington Singers/ BBC NOW/ Richard Hickox (cond)
- CHAN 10120.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Job - Extract
Performer: LSO/ Adrian Boult (cond)
- EMI CDM 7 69710.
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