PRESIDENT: SIR ANDREW DAVIS CBE

Albion Records

Albion Records is the recording label of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society and is devoted to recordings of Vaughan Williams, including rarely heard works and many world premières.

The label of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society

IAN VENABLES & RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
PORTRAITS OF A MIND

The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society commissioned a new work from Ian Venables, one of Britain’s most distinguished composers and a master of song composition. He has created a song cycle, Portraits of a Mind, using the same forces (tenor, piano and string quartet) as those specified for Vaughan Williams’s song cycle On Wenlock Edge.

Ian Venables and Ralph Vaughan Williams Composers
Iain Farrington Arranger
Alessandro Fisher Tenor
The Navarra Quartet
William Vann Piano

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THE FIRST SONGS OF TRAVEL

This pioneering 1954 Westminster LP recital by Richard Standen (bass-baritone), accompanied by Frederick Stone (piano), has been remastered for Albion Records by Ronald Grames in excellent sound and issued on ALBCD055.

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS – SERENADE

A celebration of the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS ON BRASS

Henry the Fifth Overture
Three Welsh Hymns and Variations
Tuba Concerto
Arrangements

5 WORLD PREMIERS!
26 Tracks!

PAN’S ANNIVERSARY

Ben Jonson’s masque with incidental music by Vaughan Williams and additional arrangements by Gustav Holst.

Tallis Fantasia
arranged for Voices and String Octet

TRANSCRIPTIONS FROM TRURO

Organ transcriptions from Truro Cathedral.
Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
The Lark Ascending
Symphony No. 5 in D major

3 PREMIERE RECORDINGS

A LONDON SYMPHONY

A London Symphony arranged for piano duet by Archibald Jacob.
Preludio, Fugato e Finale by Elizabeth Maconchy.
Eclogue by Gerald Finzi.

EARTH’S WIDE BOUNDS

Communion Service in G minor
Valiant-for-Truth
Nocturne: By The Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
Hymns and anthems

13 WORLD PREMIERS!
19 Tracks!

FOLK SONGS VOLUME 4

All but four of the songs were collected by Maud Karpeles in Newfoundland in 1929 and 1930.

10 PREMIERE RECORDINGS

AN OXFORD CHRISTMAS

This recording focusses on arrangements made by Vaughan Williams for The Oxford Book of Carols (1928), coupled with two later carols published by Oxford University Press.

2 PREMIERE RECORDINGS

WALTON & VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Piano duet versions of two important works by William Walton with the first recording of a ‘student’ piece by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

DIGITALLY REMASTERED

RVW FROM AMERICA

Forgotten Recordings of the 50s…brings a number of important première recordings from the LP era to a digital format for the first time.

14 WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

FOLK SONGS VOLUME 3

Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties.

15 WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

FOLK SONGS VOLUME 2

Complete Vaughan Williams folk song arrangements – the second of four albums.

15 WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

FOLK SONGS VOLUME 1

Complete Vaughan Williams folk song arrangements – the first of four albums.

Beecham El Amor Brujo

MUSIC FOR STAGE AND SCREEN

Archive recordings from the film and theatre worlds.
Release date: 25 September 2020.

PREMIERE RECORDINGS

SONGS AND PIANO MUSIC BY JOHN SYKES

Songs, solo piano works and piano duo.

14 WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

TIME AND SPACE

Songs by Holst and Vaughan Williams.

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ALBION’S JOURNEY

The Life and Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958.

15 WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

THE SONG OF LOVE

Songs and Duets.

VIOLA FANTASIA

Suite for Viola and Piano,
Romance for Viola and Piano,
Six Studies in English Folk Song, Fantasia on Greensleeves, Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes, Four Hymns for Tenor, Viola& Piano.