{"id":2143,"date":"2022-09-22T15:47:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2022-09-22T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:47:05","slug":"somm-celebration-of-vaughan-williams-birth-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"SOMM Celebration of  Vaughan Williams\u2019 Birth Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?attachment_id=2144\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2144\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2144\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture1-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Picture1.jpg 938w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SOMM Recordings\u2019<\/strong> celebration of the 150th anniversary of <strong>Ralph Vaughan Williams<\/strong>\u2019 birth continues in Ocober with Volume 2 of <em>Vaughan Williams Live<\/em>, featuring historic performances by the <strong>BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus<\/strong> and the <strong>Boston Symphony Orchestra<\/strong> conducted by <strong>Sir Adrian Boult<\/strong> in new, signature remasterings by <strong>Lani Spahr<\/strong> with authoritative booklet notes by Vaughan Williams\u2019 biographer <strong>Simon Heffer<\/strong>. Two works featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus include a 1945 BBC radio broadcast of the first performance of the wartime masterpiece <em>Thanksgiving for Victory<\/em> \u2013 with soprano <strong>Elsie Suddaby<\/strong>, organist <strong>George Thalben-Ball<\/strong> and <strong>Valentine Dyall <\/strong>as the speaker \u2013 and the rapturous <em>Serenade to Music<\/em> from the opening night of the BBC\u2019s Third Programme (now Radio 3) in 1946. First performed in 1938 in celebration of Henry Wood\u2019s jubilee as a conductor and originally composed for 16 solo singers, it appears here in its version for orchestra, chorus and four soloists \u2013 <strong>Isobel Baillie<\/strong> (soprano), <strong>Astra Desmond<\/strong> (contralto), <strong>Beveridge White<\/strong> (tenor), and <strong>Harold Williams<\/strong> (baritone).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOMM Recordings\u2019 celebration of the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams\u2019 birth continues in Ocober with Volume 2 of Vaughan Williams Live, featuring historic performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=2143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}