Peter Oundjian, Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto; Oboe Concerto; Serenade to Music; Flos Campi (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 82:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 5201 | Recorded: 2017
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 82:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 5201 | Recorded: 2017
The British serialist Elisabeth Lutyens characterized Ralph Vaughan Williams as a member of the "cowpat school." The description is not only uncharitable but inaccurate: Vaughan Williams was interested not only in pastoralism but in war, religion (although he was an atheist), mysticism, the works of Shakespeare, American poetry, and much more. Musically he could sound, as in the Piano Concerto in C major heard here, like a pure Parisian neoclassicist, like a fairly hard-edged modernist, like a neo-Renaissance glorifier of British tradition, or, yes, like a pastoralist, as in the marvelous little Oboe Concerto in A minor on this Chandos release.