Vaughan Williams Fantasia
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Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis

Vaughan Williams wrote the Fantasia for the Three Choirs Festival in 1910 and although revised by the composer a couple of times subsequently, this modern reworking of the ELizabethan fantasia form, immediately a became a feature of the orchestral repertoire.
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Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra website
Conductor: Andrew Davis Andrew Davis bio page
Label: Teldec Label website
Catalogue Ref: 3984-22125-2
Barcode: 0639842212526
Release Date: March 1998

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Label (Teldec - Warner Classics) Teldec disc information

Andrew Davis encouraged a sublime performance from the BBC Symphony in this emotional and intense interpretation of the Fantasia.  It's almost exhaustingly poignant.