Cd Reviews: Jazz Cds a Rose Tinted Spectacle ; Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Tippett: The English Connection - Academy of St.Martin-in-the Fields (Cd Dca 518) Pounds 8.99
Birmingham Post › October 23, 2004
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However sceptical you may be that pre-WW1 England was ever the land of 'radiant innocence' allegedly evoked in Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, violinist Iona Brown's blissfully sweet and unforced performance on the opening track of this CD makes the sentimental myth sound like simple truth.
Brown died in June this year and The Lark is a fitting tribute to her, as is this entire re-release of the original 1983 recording, its undertow of elegy and nostalgia kept well clear of mawkishness by the dignity and discipline of strikingly warm and resonant string playing from The Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields, under Sir Neville Marriner.See the full content of this document
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Cd Reviews: Jazz Cds a Rose Tinted Spectacle ; Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Tippett: The English Connection - Academy of St.Martin-in-the Fields (Cd Dca 518) Pounds 8.99
Sir Neville's reading of Vaughan Will...
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