Artist: Ashley Wass, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd Title: Vaughan Williams, R.: Piano Concerto Year Of Release: 2009 Label: Naxos Genre: Classical Quality: flac 24bits - 44.1kHz + Booklet Total Time: 01:09:31 Total Size: 610 mb

Tracklist

1. The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite: I. Overture
2. The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite: II. Entr'acte
3. The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite: III. March Past of the Kitchen Utensils
4. The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite: IV. Entr'acte
5. The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite: V. Ballet and Final Tableau
6. Piano Concerto in C Major: I. Toccata. Allegro moderato
7. Piano Concerto in C Major: II. Romanza. Lento
8. Piano Concerto in C Major: III. Fuga chromatica con finale alla tedesca: Allegro-Lento-Largo sostenuto-Andante sostenuto
9. Piano Concerto in C Major: IV. Finale
10. English Folk Song Suite: I. March, "Seventeen come Sunday" (Arr. G. Jacob for Orchestra)
11. English Folk Song Suite: III. Intermezzo, "My Bonny Boy" (Arr. G. Jacob for Orchestra)
12. English Folk Song Suite: IV. March, "Folk Songs from Somerset" (Arr. G. Jacob for Orchestra)
13. The Running Set

The popular overture from Vaughan Williams’s incidental music for Aristophanes’s The Wasps introduces a suite whose mischievously witty, noble and farcical movements underline the play’s satire of the Athenian legal system. A similar vivacity characterises his English Folksong Suite and The Running Set, where Vaughan Williams relishes setting tunes such as Barrack Hill, Irish Reel, The Blackthorn Stick and Cock o’ the North. Folksong-like melodies also feature in his magnificent Piano Concerto, in which the magisterial influence of Bach and Busoni may also be heard