Vaughan Williams: Sym. No. 7-Sinfonia Antartica · Toward the Unknown Region Orchestral & Concertos Chandos

Vaughan Williams: Sym. No. 7-Sinfonia Antartica · Toward the Unknown Region

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CHAN 8796

Vaughan Williams: Sym. No. 7-Sinfonia Antartica · Toward the Unknown Region

Running Time: 54:24

CD UPC: 0095115879627

Release Date: November 1989
Originally recorded in June 1989

Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Soprano Voice soprano
Catherine Bott

Solo organ
Roderick Elms

Choral
London Symphony Chorus

Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor
Bryden Thomson

Venue
St Jude on the Hill, Hampstead

Producer
Brian Couzens

Engineer
Ralph Couzens

Engineer (Assistant)
Ben Connellan

Genre:
Orchestral & Concertos

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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

'Sinfonia Antartica' (Symphony No. 7)

41:10

Prelude: Andante Maestoso

09:53

To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite,

To forgive wrongs darker than death or night,

To defy power which seems omnipotent,

Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent:

This…is to be

SHELLEY: Prometheus Unbound

Scherzo: Moderato

05:56

There go the ships

and there is that Leviathan

whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein.

PSALM 104

III

Landscape: Lento

11:03

Ye ice fall! Ye that from the mountain's brow

Adown enormous ravines slope amain -

Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice,

And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge¬

COLERIDGE: Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamount

Intermezzo: Andante sostenuto

05:32

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,

Nor hours, days, months, which are rags of time.

DONNE: The Sun Rising

Epilogue: Alla marcia, moderato (non troppo allegro)

08:46

I do not regret this journey; we took risks, we knew we took them,

things have come out against us, therefore we have no cause for complaint.

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S LAST JOURNAL

Toward the Unknown Region, Song for Chorus and Orchestra

13:14

Darest thou now O soul,

Walk out with me toward the unknown region,

Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?

No map there, nor guide,

Nor voice sounding, nor touch of human hand,

Nor face with blooming flesh, nor lips, nor eyes, are in that land.

Till when the ties loosen,

All but the ties eternal, time and space,

Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds boundings us.

Then we burst forth, we float,

In time and space O soul, prepared for them,

Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil O soul.

WALT WHITMAN

I know it not O soul,

or dost thou, all is a blank before us,

All waits undreamed of in that region, that inaccessible land.

Solo: Roderick Elms organ

Choral: London Symphony Chorus

Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Bryden Thomson

21-22 June 1989

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