The HallÃ© announces the latest release in their series of works by Vaughan Williams, with two landmark pieces which are pinnacles of the composer's output. Composed between 1901 and 1904, the Songs of Travel, settings of Robert Louis Stevenson for voice and piano (some orchestrated by the composer and some by composer and arranger Roy Douglas), proved a significant landmark in the emergence of Vaughan Willams's personal voice. The work reflects the composer's interest in folk song and is characterized by highly evocative orchestrations, ardent melodic lines, wide ranging expressions of emotion from joy to melancholy and highly effective word setting. Winner of the Lieder Prize at the 1991 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Neal Davies has sung with the world's leading orchestras, conductors and opera companies and received much critical praise for performances in concert, on stage and in recordings. Ralph Vaughan Williams's 'masque for dancing', Job, is one of his supreme achievements and was considered by Gustav Holst to be a masterpiece. Scored for large orchestra, the work was written between 1927 and 1930 and shows the composer's imagination at it's most vivid. Inspired by William Blake's dramatic engravings, interpreting a Biblical narrative which examines human suffering in relation to a deity of justice, Vaughan Williams deploys traditional folk dances as a means of creating an idiomatic English dance style.

Tracklist:

Songs Of Travel: I. The Vagabond (Orch. Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Songs Of Travel: II. Let Beauty Awake (Orch. Roy Douglas)
Songs Of Travel: III. The Roadside Fire (Orch. Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Songs Of Travel: IV.youth And Love (Orch. Roy Douglas)
Songs Of Travel: V. In Dreams (Orch. Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Songs Of Travel: VI. The Infinite Shining Heavens (Orch. Roy Douglas)
Songs Of Travel: VII. Whither Must I Wander? (Orch. Roy Douglas)
Songs Of Travel: VIII. Bright Is The Ring Of Words (Orch. Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Songs Of Travel: IX. I Have Trod The Upward And The Downward Slope (Orch. Roy Douglas)
Job: Scene I. Introduction
Job: Scene I.Saraband Of The Sons Of God
Job: Scene II. Satan’s Dance Of Triumph
Job: Scene III. Minuet Of The Sons Of Job And Their Wives
Job: Scene IV. Job’s Dream
Job: Scene V. Dance Of The Three Messengers
Job: Scene VI. Dance Of Job’s Comforters
Job: Scene VII. Elihu’s Dance Of Youth And Beauty
Job: Scene VII. Pavane Of The Sons Of The Morning
Job: Scene VIII. Galliard Of The Sons Of The Morning
Job: Scene VIII. Altar Dance And Heavenly Pavane
Job: Scene IX. Epilogue (Largo Sostenuto)

UPC: 5065001341779
Label: Halle
Release Date: 10.2.20
Format: CD

Hallé - Job / Songs of Travel (CD)