{"id":361,"date":"2012-07-19T14:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=361"},"modified":"2012-07-19T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:25:28","slug":"r-vaughan-williams-a-cotswold-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"R Vaughan Williams: A Cotswold Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?attachment_id=365\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/hickox0012-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><strong>Soloists\/London Philharmonic Orchestra\/Richard Hickox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHANDOS CHAN 10728X\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 54.34<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This reissue is part of a series to commemorate Richard Hickox, but is very welcome in its own right. Vaughan Williams\u2019 operas are undervalued today \u2013 though a new production of <em>Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/em> by ENO this autumn is timely. A Cotswold Romance is effectively a shortened version of <em>Hugh the Drover, <\/em>a work I first encountered when involved in a production at St Pancras Town Hall in the late 1960s. It is a remarkable piece, looking back to the security of Edwardian and even Victorian composition but also forward to music theatre of the later twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>Rosa Mannion and Thomas Randle bring an innocent clarity to their characters and the approach is brisk, bright and captivating.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Death of Tintagiles <\/em>is all but forgotten today, and so this recording is all the more valuable. A rare venture into the theatre, the play by Maeterlinck, for which this was the incidental music, was a disaster. Vaughan Williams vowed never to write for the theatre again and so this score vanished. A pity for it pre-echoes both his opera <em>Riders to the Sea<\/em> and the <em>Sinfonia Antarctica. <\/em>Its brooding darkness is unlike anything until the end of his career. A welcome reissue. BH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Soloists\/London Philharmonic Orchestra\/Richard Hickox CHANDOS CHAN 10728X\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 54.34 This reissue is part of a series to commemorate Richard Hickox, but is very welcome in its own right. Vaughan Williams\u2019 operas are undervalued today \u2013 though a new production of Pilgrim\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=361\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}