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Vaughan Williams - Piano Concerto, etc | Naxos 8572304

Vaughan Williams - Piano Concerto, etc

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8572304

Barcode: 0747313230471

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 26th October 2009

Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Artists

Ashley Wass (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

James Judd

Works

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

English Folk Song Suite (arr. G Jacob)
Piano Concerto in C major
The Running Set
The Wasps: Aristophanic Suite

Artists

Ashley Wass (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

James Judd

About

The popular overture from Vaughan Williams’ incidental music for Aristophanes’s The Wasps introduces a suite whose mischievously witty, noble and farcical movements underline the play’s satire of the Athenian legal system.

A similar vivacity characterises his English Folksong Suite and The Running Set, where Vaughan Williams relishes setting tunes such as Barrack Hill, Irish Reel, The Blackthorn Stick and Cock o’ the North.

Folksong-like melodies also feature in his magnificent Piano Concerto in which the magisterial influence of Bach and Busoni may also be heard.

Make no mistake about it: this boy is special. What I love about his playing is its sincerity and tenderness. He doesn’t just caress the piano, he probes its soft depths with the utmost consideration.” - The Independent on Ashley Wass

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