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Title: Williams: Sinfonia Antartica / 5 Variants of Dives & Lazarus
Condition: New
Format: CD
EAN: 0090266119523
Genre: Classical
Description: EDITORIAL REVIEWS
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Vaughan Williams's Seventh Symphony began life as a film score to Scott of the Antarctic (how the symphony lost the "c" in "Antarctic" not even the composer could fully explain). The movie describes Scott's ill-fated expedition in which everyone perishes during a blizzard, literally yards away from safety. To describe man's struggle against the hostile elements, the composer has recourse to a hefty battalion of percussion (including vibraphone), piano, organ, wind machine, and wordless female soloist and chorus. It's an incredible piece of writing, perhaps closest in spirit to Holst's The Planets--both pieces describe alien, hostile environments, after all. It sounds spectacular in this recording. --David Hurwitz
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
No Of Discs: 1
Artist: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Record Label: RCA Legacy

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