THE LARK ASCENDING - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS. BOULT/LPO. 1950. PT2

[2ndviolinist]

To me, this version is too big, not inward enough. Not sure I don't like Hugh Bean/Boult's or Iona Brown/Marriner's versions better even though I rarely find later recordings to be better than older. Pougnet plays well but it sounds a bit impersonal, etude-like. If only there was a recording of Marie Hall playing it. Vaughan Williams wrote it for her, and dedicated it to her. She gave the first public performance with Boult in 1921. Oh well. . .

[Nai61a]

This is wonderful playing. I'm embarrassed to admit, as a violinist, that I had never heard of Pougnet.

[AlMorone1]

Thanks so much for this!!

[Eloize100]

Thank you very much from me too! It's brilliant:)

[EuropeanArchive]

Thanks very much for posting this reocrd!

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Greetings,

Rolf

Historical classical recordings

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