![]() ![]() You will also find my reviews of CDs 8 and 9 – Piano Concerto (in the two piano version) and Job, Serenade to Music, The Lark Ascending as well as The Pilgrim’s Progress etc- conducted by Boult ( review). So, think of this review as a signpost to long-established performances and to the fact that Warner is (in effect) reissuing that earlier box. ![]() I have listened to the Handley symphonic cycle in full in this incarnation as it’s been years since I last heard it, but I have sampled much of the remainder, dipping into and out of each disc to refresh my memory of recordings I’ve known for a long time and also to listen to those things that I haven’t heard before – which includes the smaller items that have been included in this set that weren’t in the previous one there are not too many of those, admittedly. The earlier set was comprehensively and handsomely reviewed by Rob Barnett ( review) who gave links to previous reviews of the material in the box, none of which was new, and all of which was part of the EMI-VW recorded legacy. What makes this the ‘New’ collector’s edition, as distinct from the common or garden ‘Collector’s’ edition? The answer is not very much. If you have that earlier box still on your shelves, you’d be entitled to know what Warner, as it now is, has come up with. Now, in time for the composer’s 150 th birthday celebrations, comes Warner’s ‘The New Collector’s Edition’, also in a 30-CD box. In the early 2000s EMI brought out a 9-CD Choral, Vocal and Orchestral box that included a third of the Vaughan Williams items that were later to form part of their 30-CD ‘Collector’s Edition’, masterminded by Richard Abram. Support us financially by purchasing from
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