ELGAR Cockaigne Overture
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.1
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.2 "London"
Andrew Litton conductor
Alexei Volodin piano

Vaughan Williams' Second Symphony has been described as the musical equivalent of Monet’s paintings of the sun rising over a foggy Thames. Actual London sounds fleetingly emerge from an exquisitely woven musical tapestry - the chimes of Big Ben, the cry of a lavender-seller. Central to the symphony’s success is the wonderful limpid scoring, which Vaughan Williams felt in later life that he had never bettered.

The Cockaigne Overture, a joyful, affectionate tribute to London and its people, is one of his most optimistic and popular concert works. Rachmaninov was just seventeen when he began work on his First Piano Concerto, but it was not for another twenty-seven years before he made significant revisions, turning a diffuse and unpolished work into an economical, feisty, and exuberant masterpiece.

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