℗ 2014 Naxos
| Released | November 4, 2014 |
| Duration | 1h 00m 37s |
| Record Label | Naxos |
| Catalogue No. | 8.573426 |
| Genre | Classical (Orchestral) |
Flowers of the Field: Vaughan Willams: An Oxford Elegy
Roderick Williams, Jeremy Irons, City of London Choir, London Mozart Players, Hilary Davan Wetton
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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A Shropshire Lad – Rhapsody for Orchestra
George Butterworth; London Mozart Players; Hilary Davan Wetton |
10:22 | |||
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Requiem da Camera
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I. Prelude
Gerald Finzi; Christian Alexander; London Mozart Players; Hilary Davan Wetton |
5:20 | |||
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II. How still this quiet cornfield is to-night
Gerald Finzi; Christian Alexander; Natasha Harbinson; David Bagnall; City of London Choir; London Mozart Players; Hilary Davan Wetton |
9:14 | |||
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1.4
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III. Only a man harrowing clods
Gerald Finzi; Christian Alexander; Roderick Williams; London Mozart Players; Hilary Davan Wetton |
3:37 | |||
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IV. We who are left
Gerald Finzi; Christian Alexander; Emily Tidbury; City of London Choir; London Mozart Players; Hilary Davan Wetton |
4:18 | |||
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The Trumpet
Ivor Gurney; Philip Lancaster; City of London Choir; London Mozart Players; Hilary Davan Wetton |
5:45 | |||
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An Oxford Elegy
Ralph Vaughan Williams; Jeremy Irons; City of London Choir; London Mozart Players; Hilary Davan Wetton |
22:01 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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The composers on this album were all affected by the carnage of World War I and their elegiac music expresses regret and lost innocence, love won and lost, sacrifice and death. George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad encapsulates the poet’s sense of life’s transience. Ivor Gurney was both shot and gassed in 1917; The Trumpet, receiving its world premiere here, pleads with mankind to set aside the folly of war. Heard here in a new completion, Gerald Finzi’s Requiem da Camera mourns the death of his mentor Ernest Farrar and other fallen artists and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s An Oxford Elegy recalls lost friends with an intense and magical nostalgia and features actor Jeremy Irons in a spoken role.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Naxos Studio Masters
Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, London, UK, on 11th and 12th July, 2014 Producer and editor: Andrew Walton (K&A Productions Ltd.) Engineer: Mike Clements Publishers: Novello & Co., Ltd. (track 1); Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Ltd. (tracks 2-5); Philip Lancaster/Gurney Estate (track 6); Oxford University Press (track 7) Booklet notes: Andrew Burn Cover photograph by Rasica (Dreamstime)
Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, London, UK, on 11th and 12th July, 2014 Producer and editor: Andrew Walton (K&A Productions Ltd.) Engineer: Mike Clements Publishers: Novello & Co., Ltd. (track 1); Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Ltd. (tracks 2-5); Philip Lancaster/Gurney Estate (track 6); Oxford University Press (track 7) Booklet notes: Andrew Burn Cover photograph by Rasica (Dreamstime)
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.39 -6.77 to 0.00 | -26.53 -31.08 to -21.36 | -22.03 -27.30 to -17.80 | 15 13 to 18 | |
| 1 | A Shropshire Lad – Rhapsody for Orchestra | 0.00 | -24.14 | -18.3 | 15 |
| 2 | I. Prelude | -2.94 | -27.83 | -23.5 | 14 |
| 3 | II. How still this quiet cornfield is to-night | 0.00 | -26.40 | -21.2 | 15 |
| 4 | III. Only a man harrowing clods | -6.77 | -31.08 | -27.3 | 14 |
| 5 | IV. We who are left | 0.00 | -27.72 | -23.2 | 16 |
| 6 | The Trumpet | 0.00 | -21.36 | -17.8 | 13 |
| 7 | An Oxford Elegy | 0.00 | -27.19 | -22.9 | 18 |