Music : Vaughan Williams: The Collector's Edition
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from: EMI Classics
List Price: $62.98Amazon.com's Price: $56.49 You Save: $6.49 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5099920663629
Format: Box set, Collector's Edition
Label: EMI Classics
Manufacturer: EMI Classics
Number Of Discs: 30
Publisher: EMI Classics
Release Date: July 08, 2008
Sales Rank: 5018
Studio: EMI Classics
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A steal but..
Having enjoyed the companion Elgar set, I bought this immediately when it came out. It is certainly extraordinary value for money, at less than $3 per disc. I am less taken with the content however. Many of the recordings are choral works which are less compelling to this listener than V-W's orchestral works. Moreover, the latter are just not that exciting when compared to other recordings that I already possess. The organization is also rather parsimonious, and short works--often interesting ones ... Read More
Rating: - EMI's Vaughan Williams Collection
This splendid set, an amazing bargain, provides most of Vaughan Williams's music in various, sometimes relatively recent, vintages of recordings. VW is a vastly underrated composer. Some of the symphonies are bonafide masterpieces, especially numbers 4 and 6, but the London Symphony (#2) and the 8th and 9th are pretty top drawer as well, if not as stunning as 4 and 6. But then, 3 and 5 are excellent in a more "pastoral" way, though hardly the "cow music" written about in a recent New York Times article. ... Read More
Rating:  - An extensive glance at Vaughan Williams's work
This is indeed a very good opportunity to have a detailed view at this composer's work at a bargain price. To me, it has always been difficult to get Vaughan Williams's recordings as I'm out of the UK, where most of them are released individually. It is great to have a box like this to get closer to this marvellous orchestrator, with his compositions so full of instrumental colour. The price is excellent, the only disappointment is that thera are no booklet notes at all. At least the CD tracking details ... Read More
Rating:  - Too cheaply done.
I know people revere Boult and Handley and Hickox as the best of all possible interpreters for British music, along with Groves and Barbirolli and all of the other artists presented here. So please don't take offense as I pick apart this box set -- because it's not as great as some other reviewers make it out to be. Others can tell you why it's good (and it has LOTS of good stuff). Let me criticize it a little. Or a lot.
First, the packaging. I'm getting really tired of these box sets (Elgar ... Read More
Rating: - Great Value, Fine Performances
For lovers of Ralph Vaughan Williams' music, the prospect of obtaining most of his works on 30 CDs for $50 or less should be irresistible. It's a great way to fill in the gaps in your collection, or to become acquainted with RVW's less familiar works. Among the highlights of this box are the Serenade to Music and the Pilgrim's Progress (both conducted by Adrian Boult), Partita for Double String Orchestra (Vernon Handley), Riders to the Sea and Sir John in Love (Meredith Davies), Hugh the Drover (Charles Groves), ... Read More
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