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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
COMING 1st DECEMBER!
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS – A SELECTION OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Albion’s first All Digital releases, available on all streaming platforms.
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ALBUM
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS – A SELECTION OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS
SINGLES
The Golden Carol
Wither’s Rocking Hymn
Snow in the Street
Blake’s Cradle Song
Sussex Carol (Second Tune
The Salutation Carol
Coverdale’s Carol
Quem Pastores
Psalm of Sion
Derek Welton
Iain Burnside
Chapel Choir of Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann
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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.
FREE TO MEMBERS!
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.
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
EARTH & SKY: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS PREMIERES
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
A VAUGHAN WILLIAMS CHRISTMAS
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
BEYOND MY DREAM: MUSIC FOR GREEK PLAYS
The Bacchae Electra Iphigenia in Tauris.
I LOVE MY LOVE
Remastered classic 78 rpm recordings of Folk Song.
DISCOVERIES
Three Nocturnes; A Road All Paved with Stars. Stricken Peninsula; Four Last Songs.
PURER THAN PEARL
Songs and Duets for voices, piano and violin.
MUSIC FOR TWO PIANOS
Symphony No 5 in D major, The Running Set, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
SHAKESPEARE SONGS
Les Sirènes Female Chamber Choir.
HEIRS AND REBELS
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst.
FAIR CHILD OF BEAUTY
The Bridal Day – A Masque by Ursula Wood from 1938 Epithalamion – A Cantata from 1957.
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
Complete radio play 1943.
ALBION’S VISION
A compendium album introducing the music of RVW.
BURSTS OF ACCLAMATION
Organ music and transcriptions by Ralph Vaughan Williams and music by Henry Ley.
COME BACK TO ME
Piano arrangements of great film music.
O FOR A MUSE OF FIRE…
Incidental music to King Henry V and King Richard II. This is a specialist recording. Please email us before purchase.
A CAMBRIDGE MASS
Ralph Vaughan Williams’s doctoral work.
STARS OF THE NIGHT
Songs and violin works by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
THE SOLENT
50 years of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
THE SONS OF THE MORNING
Piano works by Ivor Gurney and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
ARCHIVE RECORDINGS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Historic recordings of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY
Folk-carols and folk-songs arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
THE GARDEN OF PROSERPINE
Also: In the Fen Country and Patrick Hadley’s Fen & Flood.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / JOHN IRELAND
Piano arrangements of Symphony No 6 in E minor, The Wasps & John Ireland’s Prelude: The Forgotten Rite.
FOLK SONGS OF THE FOUR SEASONS
Sir David Willcocks conducts the Choir of Clare College Cambridge.
WHERE HOPE IS SHINING
Songs for mixed chorus by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
MUSIC IN THE HEART
A commemorative Album marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
KISSING HER HAIR
Twenty early songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
THE SKY SHALL BE OUR ROOF
Rare songs from the operas of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Contact Information
To contact Officers of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society please click on the links.
Publicity & Events Officer
(To publicise events, recordings, publications)
Journal Editor
(To send us articles)
Information Officer
(All matters relating to RVW)
Concert Resources Officer
(advice re: organising your concert)
Albion Records
(The RVW Society recording label)
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