by Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Kees Bakels, Ralph Vaughan Williams · CD · EAN 0730099573726
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«Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 7 & 8» is the album by Ralph Vaughan Williams, released in 1998 by Naxos, on CD.
The disc brings together Symphony No. 7 «Sinfonia antartica», inspired by Antarctica, with recited texts by Shelley, Coleridge, Donne and Scott, and Symphony No. 8 in D minor. It includes movements such as «Preludio», «Landscape» and «Epilogue» in the seventh, with soprano, chorus and organ.
Conducted by Kees Bakels, with Lynda Russell (soprano) and Christopher Dowie (organ); recorded at Wessex Hall, Poole, in September 1996. Catalogue No. 8.550737, duration 71 minutes.
For classical music listeners interested in 20th-century British symphonic repertoire.
