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 Since its formation in 1994, The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society – a registered charity – has sought to raise the profile of the composer through publications, seminars and sponsorship of recordings. Amongst the Society’s successes includes the publication of Ursula Vaughan Williams’s autobiography with its main focus on her relationship with Ralph and the sponsorship of the Albion Opera Festival in London in 1997.
With almost 1,000 members, the Society now has the resources to launch its new record label, Albion Records,devoted to recordings of rare RVW. Indeed, our vision is that each Albion CD will contain at least one world premiere recording. Our first CD, The sky shall be our roof, contains eleven such world premieres! Our second CD is called To Daffodils and includes many rare songs, including the world premiere recording of Rondel. Both CDs have been released to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the composer in 2008.
Future recording plans cover the complete piano transcriptions including Job and A London Symphony.
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New Release!
FOLK SONGS OF THE
FOUR SEASONS
Albion Records is proud to announce the release of two major Vaughan Williams works, both of which are world-premiere recordings. They are Folk Songs of the Four Seasons and In Windsor Forest in the arrangement for women's voices by Guthrie Foote. The Dmitri Ensemble, English Voices and the choir of Clare College, Cambridge are conducted by Sir David Willcocks. Sir David has a long and distinguished relationship with the music of Vaughan Williams and Albion is delighted that he has added to his repertoire these significant works in this his 90th birthday year.
Folk Songs of the Four Seasons is on Albion ALB CD 010 and is priced through this web-site to members of the Vaughan Williams Society at £10.00 plus postage and packing.
Orders direct from:
Mark Hammett
7 Endsleigh Road
Merstham,
Redhill, Surrey.
RH1 3LX
or
The price is £10.00 plus p&p £1.80.
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