Artist: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze Title: Vaughan Williams: Job "A Masque for Dancing", Old King Cole - An Orchestral Ballet, The Running Set Year Of Release: 2022/2023 Label: PM Classics Ltd. Genre: Classical Quality: flac lossless (tracks) 24bits - 96.0kHz Total Time: 01:15:13 Total Size: 1.26 gb

1. Job "A Masque for Dancing", Scene I: Introduction-Pastoral Dance-Satan's Appeal to God-Saraband of the Sons of God
2. Job "A Masque for Dancing", Scene II: Satan’s Dance of Triumph
3. Job "A Masque for Dancing", Scene III: Minuet of the Sons of Job and their Wives-Minuet of the Sons and Daughters of Job
4. Job "A Masque for Dancing", Scene IV: Job's Dream-Dance of Plague, Pestilence, Famine and Battle
5. Job "A Masque for Dancing", Scene V: Dance of the Three Messengers
6. Job "A Masque for Dancing", Scene VI: Dance of Job's Comforters-Job's Curse-A Vision of Satan
7. Job "A Masque for Dancing", Scene VII: Elihu's Dance of Beauty and Youth-Pavane of the Heavenly Host
8. Job "A Masque for Dancing", Scene VIII
9. Job "A Masque for Dancing", Scene IX: Epilogue
10. Old King Cole, A Ballet for Orchestra: I. Introduction: Allegro moderato
11. Old King Cole, A Ballet for Orchestra: II. Royal Fanfare, King Enters
12. Old King Cole, A Ballet for Orchestra: III. Pipe Dance
13. Old King Cole, A Ballet for Orchestra: IV. Bowl Dance
14. Old King Cole, A Ballet for Orchestra: V. 1st Fiddler Enters Dancing
15. Old King Cole, A Ballet for Orchestra: VI. King is Bored and Goes to Sleep
16. Old King Cole, A Ballet for Orchestra: VII. Entry of the 3rd Fiddler, Followed by Grotesque and Little Boys
17. Old King Cole, A Ballet for Orchestra: VIII. King Comes Down from His Throne
18. Old King Cole, A Ballet for Orchestra: IX. Fiddler Slowly Moves Across Stage
19. The Running Set (Founded on Traditional Dance Tunes)

Following on from their highly acclaimed cycle of the 9 Vaughan Williams symphonies, Andrew Manze and the RLPO have recorded a spectacular Job, taken from a live performance at the famed Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool. RVW’s inspiration for Job arose from William Blake’s illustrations for The Book of Job, a collection of water colours from 1805, and the later engravings from 1822. 1928 was the centenary of Blake’s death, and RVW attempted to interest Serge Diaghilev, the foremost artistic power in the world of ballet to take it up but to no avail. The work has since become a concert piece after a handful of staged performances in the early 1930s. The score is in 9 sections telling the story of Job. The music is notable for its dramatic contrasts. The music for God being powerful and majestic, that for Satan is powerfully dissonant with a violence that foreshadows music encountered in the 4th and 6th symphonies and the piano concerto. RVW had seen service in France in the First World War, and what he saw there undoubtedly coloured his musical language, and the horrors endured by Job are depicted in some of RVVs most driven and dissonant music