Artist: New York Philharmonic, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli Title: Vaughan Williams Live Vol. 4 Year Of Release: 2023 Label: SOMM Recordings Genre: Classical Quality: flac lossless (tracks) 24bits - 44.1kHz + Booklet Total Time: 01:11:56 Total Size: 421 mb Tracklist 01. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis 02. Concerto in C Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra I. Toccata. Allegro moderato 03. Concerto in C Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra Ii. Romanza. Lento 04. Concerto in C Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra Iii. Fuga chromatica con Finale alla tedesca 05. Symphony No.8 in D Minor I. Fantasia (Variazione senza Tema) Moderato 06. Symphony No.8 in D Minor Ii. Scherzo alla marcia (per stromenti a fiato) Allegro alla marcia 07. Symphony No.8 in D Minor Iii. Cavatina (per stromenti ad arco) Lento espressivo 08. Symphony No.8 in D Minor Iv. Toccata. Moderato maestoso SOMM RECORDINGS continues its acclaimed Vaughan Williams Live series celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with Volume 4 featuring his signature Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, the Concerto for Two Pianos and Eighth Symphony in recordings conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos and Sir John Barbirolli. The Tallis Fantasia is a live recording from Carnegie Hall in 1943 with Mitropoulos, a committed advocate for Vaughan Williams’ music, conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. They are also heard in the Concerto for Two Pianos, again from Carnegie Hall in 1952, when the soloists were Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, who forged a widely popular and critically acclaimed piano duo partnership in America in the middle of the last century. Recorded in Manchester’s Free Trade Hall in 1964, the Symphony No.8 is blazingly conducted by its dedicatee, Sir John Barbirolli, leading the Hallé Orchestra