Album
A London Symphony
Vaughan Williams - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens
1942 · Classical
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A London Symphony is a Classical album by Vaughan Williams - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens, originally released in 1942.
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Sound DNA
- Classical
- Modern & Contemporary
- lush
- wistful
- urban
Recorded February 19-20, 1941 at Music Hall, Cincinnati.
[Side # - Matrix & take # - Recording date]
1 - CS-062506- 2 / 19-Feb-41
2 - CS-062507- 1 / 19-Feb-41
3 - CS-062508- 1 / 19-Feb-41
4 - CS-062509- 1 / 19-Feb-41
5 - CS-062510- 1 / 19-Feb-41
6 - CS-062511- 1 / 19-Feb-41
7 - CS-062512- 2 / 20-Feb-41
8 - CS-062513- 1B / 20-Feb-41 (transcribed from take 1)
9 - CS-062514- 2 / 20-Feb-41
10 - 2EA6311- 2 / 9-May-38 (Farandole) [recorded at EMI Studios]
78s: Victor album DM/M-916 (11-8253/7; 11-8375/9), 12529; HMV ED-554/8, C-3022, EH-1240.
Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony, had been premièred in 1914; but after the Great War, the composer cut it by about a third for a version published in 1920. Further cuts were made for a final 1936 edition that has been the standard performed ever since. However, the 1920 parts were still being circulated in America when Goossens made his recording, and that is what is heard here. Among several passages missing from the later version are about two minutes of music toward the beginning of the Epilogue. Other than the two acoustic sets of the score made by Sir Dan Godfrey (one severely truncated, the other with a large cut in the last movement), it is, to my knowledge, the only complete recording of the 1920 version (and even here, a repeat in the Scherzo is omitted in order to fit it on a single side).
- Mark Obert-Thorn, from PASC654
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Sir Eugene GoossensCONDUCTOR
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