Hyperion Records
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CDH55004
(Originally issued on CDA66306)
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Buy? £6.99

Recording details: March 1988
Henry Wood Hall, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: May 1999
Total duration: 66 minutes 36 seconds

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'An incredible bargain. Altogether, this sumptuously remastered issue is definitely one of the highlights of the first batch of Helios reissues that promise to take a fair share of the market both for artistic and commercial merit.' (The Sunday Times, Malta)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Mystical Songs
Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
Five Mystical Songs
1
No 1: Easter 'Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise without delays'  [4'51]
Henry Herford (baritone), Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
2
No 2: I got me flowers  [2'39]
Henry Herford (baritone), Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
3
No 3: Love bade me welcome  [5'15]
Henry Herford (baritone), Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
4
No 4: The Call 'Come, my way, my truth, my life'  [2'17]
Henry Herford (baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
5
No 5: Antiphon 'Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing'  [3'24]
Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
Five Tudor Portraits. A Choral Suite in five movements
6
No 1. Ballad: The Tunning of Elinor Rumming  [13'45]
Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
7
No 2. Intermezzo: Pretty Bess  [3'12]
Henry Herford (baritone), Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
8
No 3. Burlesca: Epitaph on John Jayberd of Diss  [3'25]
Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
9
No 4. Romanza: Jane Scroop, Her Lament for Philip Sparrow  [23'17]
Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
10
No 5. Scherzo: Jolly Rutterkin  [4'31]
Henry Herford (baritone), Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)