
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music (original version and choral version); A Song of Thanksgiving; Flos campl.
Norma Burrowes, Shelia Armstrong, Susan Longfield, Marie Hayward, Betty Dolemore, soprano
Alfreda Hodgson, Gloria Jennings, Shirley Minty, Meriel Dikinson, contralto
Ian Partridge CBE, Bernard Dickerson, Wynford Evans, Kenneth Bowen, tenor
Richard Angas, John Carol Case OBE, John Noble, Christopher Keyte, bass
Robert Speaight CBE, narrator
Harry Gabb CVO, organ
William Primose CBE, viola
BBC Chorus
Chorus Master: Leslie Woodgate OBE
Royal Festival Orchestra & Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
Beeping Music Platinum Collection BC 22008.52 [59:59]
"...it is good to have a performance which, following the original idea, uses solo singers, though these cannot, except in one or two instances, match the quality of the originals whose initials were placed in the score."
Penguin Stereo Record Guide
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