Serving the Memory Vaughan Williams conducted by Hickox - heard by PAUL SARCICH '... this series will undoubtedly please British music aficionados.'

Digitally remastered from the 1997 premiere recordings of these works, this disc is one of the Hickox Legacy series that Chandos has recently embarked on, repackaging some of the over 280 CDs that the late Richard Hickox recorded for the label. Hickox's devotion to British music is well-known enough to need no further comment, so this series will undoubtedly please British music aficionados.

In the present case the major work is the concert cantata that Vaughan Williams adapted from his first opera Hugh the Drover. At a century's remove it is perhaps difficult to imagine what a brave step it was for him to contemplate in 1910 the idea of a rustic opera founded in folksong...

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

MAURICE JACOBSON

MATTHEW BROOK

LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

RICHARD HICKOX

CHANDOS RECORDS

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

UNITED KINGDOM