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Jacobson: Vaughan Williams - A Cotswold Romance / Vaughan Williams: The Death of Tintagiles

8/1/1998, 17 Tracks, 54:30

Featuring

  • Richard Hickox
  • Rosa Mannion
  • Thomas Randle
  • Matthew Brook
  • London Symphony Orchestra
  • London Philharmonic Choir
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Recording & Production

This album is part of 'The Richard Hickox Legacy', a celebration of his collaboration with Chandos, which resulted in over 280 recordings and earned him a Grammy and five Gramophone Awards.

Source: Booklet

Critical Reception

Vaughan Williams's incidental music for Maurice Maeterlinck's play 'The Death of Tintagiles' was not well-received at its private premiere in 1913, leading the composer to vow never to get involved with such entertainment again.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Vaughan Williams's opera 'Hugh the Drover' incorporates many folksongs and distinct English elements, such as the May bringing-in, a bustling fair, a prize-fight, and the stocks.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The cantata 'A Cotswold Romance' was arranged from the opera 'Hugh the Drover' by Maurice Jacobson in collaboration with Vaughan Williams, as the opera was deemed unsuitable for concert performance.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Richard Hickox, the conductor on this album, was Music Director of Opera Australia and founded the City of London Sinfonia in 1971.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Vaughan Williams composed his opera 'Hugh the Drover', from which 'A Cotswold Romance' is adapted, between 1910 and 1914.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Vaughan Williams aimed to create a 'national opera' with 'real English words' and 'real English music', full of tunes and lively.

Source: Booklet

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