classical music: Richard Angas

classical music: Richard Angas

classical music:

Richard Angas

Vaughan Williams, The Complete Symphonies

John Carol Case, Christopher Keyte, ...

EMI Classics, 2000

Consider Supplementing This Core Set
My first exposure to V W's symphonies happened back in the 1970's courtesy of Boult's earlier recordings (#1-8 on London and Decca LPs, and #9 on an Everest LP). Later I acquired all of Boult's stereo recordings on Angel LPs. Here we have the latter recordings in ...

Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim's Progress

Richard Angas, Geoffrey Shaw, ...

Angel Records, 2005

Faithful presentation of Bunyan's classic
Vaughan Williams' hymns and religious works leave many Christian compositions for dead. [Not bad for an avowed agnostic!] I loved the Matthew Best version, with narration by the superb John Gielgud. The use of the Thomas Tallis Fantasia music was one of the things ...

Arnold Schoenberg: Moses Und Aron/Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38

Roland Hermann, Arnold Schoenberg, ...

Sony, 1993

Schoenberg's music lasts
For decades spoil sports like the one below have been attacking Schoenberg's 12 tone system, saying, for example, that his music has no relation to "natural acoustics" and to the way "human beings make sense of sound". Well, last I checked, I'm a human being, one ...

Bohuslav Martinu: Greek Passion

Adrian Clarke, Eric Garrett, ...

Koch Schwann (Germ.), 2000

A great opera
The Greek Passion was one of the last pieces that Martinu wrote and it is the only tragic opera that he wrote. Musicologists say that this opera makes more sense when compared with all other Martinu's operas but I think it makes a very good listening on its own, too. ...

Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld (Highlights)
Jacques Offenbach, Mark Elder, ...

MCA, 1989

Pacific Overtures (1987 English National Opera Cast)

Stephen Sondheim, James Holmes, ...

RCA, 1989

enjoyable. a score that deserves an operatic treatment
this is a fantastic show with many standout songs. i prefer this recording to the OBC recording b/c i really believe that the lyrical score falls naturally into the operatic realm and that broadway singers don't generally have the vocal power to do it justice. i ...

The Essential Vaughan Williams
John Shirley-Quirk, Christopher Keyte, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado (Highlights)
Gilbert & Sullivan, Peter Robinson, ...

MCA Classics, 1987

1987 release on the MCA Classics label (catalog number MCAD-6215) was made in Japan and features the following tracks: 1. If You Want To Know Who We Are 2. A Wand'ring Minstrel I 3. Our Great Mikado 4. Young Man, Despair 5. Behold, The Lord High Executioner 6. I've Got A Little List 7. Comes A Train Of Little Ladies 8. Three Littla Maids From ...