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Pieced-together Vaughan Williams and the King's Singers

If only someone had invented the photocopier a little earlier. In 1914, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams sent the one and only copy of his Second Symphony to a conductor in Germany. Then the First World War broke out, and the symphony was lost forever. Vaughan Williams and a few friends spent a couple of years arduously putting it all back together from sketches and scraps and memories. We'll hear his reconstructed work, from a concert by conductor Mark Elder and the Halle Orchestra. Plus, we'll hear the King's Singers in a recent performance at our PT studios.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Igor Stravinsky: Scherzo a la Russe
The Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

Perfchat with the King's Singers: Perfchat

John Bennet: All Creatures Now
The King's Singers
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul

Edward Elgar: O Happy Eyes
The King's Singers
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul

Traditional (Arranged by Philip Lawson): The Water Is Wide
The King's Singers
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul

Libby Larsen: Will You Nill You
The King's Singers
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul

Gioachino Rossini: Overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
The Russian National Orchestra, Carlo Montanaro, conductor
Festival del Sole, Napa Valley, California

John Brunning: Pie Jesu
The King's Singers
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul

John David: You Are the New Day
The King's Singers
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul

Harry Connick, Jr.: Recipe for Love
The King's Singers
Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul

Hour 2

Frederick Delius: La Calinda
The Halle Orchestra, John Barbirolli, conductor

Nicolas Chedeville: Fourth movement from Sonata in G for Recorder and Continuo
Michala Petri, recorder, Lars Hannibal, archlute, Peter Kolkay, bassoon
Alice Tully Hall, New York City

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three movements from Symphony No. 2 (A London Symphony)
The Halle Orchestra, Mark Elder, conductor
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, England

Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Turtle Dove
Choir of Clare College, Tim Brown, director
Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Paul

Rob Moose: Excerpt from New Old River Music: Traditional Melodies in Four Movements
The Punch Brothers, David Shifrin, clarinet
Chamber Music Northwest, Portland, Oregon

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