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Musik (cd), ℗2023

Musik (cd), ℗2023

49th parallel : the complete music written for the film

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Reviews (3)

MusicWeb international

2023 June

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John Quinn (musikanmelder)

2023 June

"Recommended: This is a release which will be of great interest to all admirers of the music of Vaughan Williams. A few years ago, Martin Yates gave us a revelatory recording of VW's complete score for the film Scott of the Antarctic. Now he has turned his attention to an earlier film score: VW's music for the 1941 movie, 49th Parallel ... Having heard all the music composed for the film I can honestly say that the whole score is really well worth hearing ... The music is impressively played by the BBC Concert Orchestra under Martin Yates' assured direction ... This is a very important addition to the composer's discography. All VW devotees should ensure they hear this ear-opening disc without delay".

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BBC music magazine

2023 October

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Michael Beek

2023 October

"Screen choice: Vaughan Williams was 60 when he embarked on this, his first feature film score in the early 1940s ... This glorious recording of the composer's complete contribution to the project ... comes thanks to painstaking work by Martin Yates, who pieced the whole thing together thanks to pouring over manuscripts and the film. It's a magnificent score ... It's typically luscious in places, wonderfully imaginative and considered, too, the composer pivoting between musical landscape painting, dramatic tension-building and some rather un-VW source items, such as the restaurant dance music. A real treat".

The gramophone

2023 July

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Guy Rickards

2023 July

"Vaughan Williams came late to film composing. By 1940, when he started on his first such score, for '49th Parallel', Bliss, Britten and Walton had already enjoyed notable success ... Vaughan Williams responded with music full of high endeavour, colour and diversity - the U-boat, icebergs, an Eskimo trading post ... and more ... This is a major release. Yates secures splendid playing from the BBC Concert Orchestra in what proves a big-boned, symphonic score".