Ralph Vaughan Williams – Five Tudor Portraits / Five Variants Of “Dives And Lazarus” (CD Album, 1998, Musical Heritage Society 5165744)

Why This CD Matters
Five Tudor Portraits is Ralph Vaughan Williams’s large-scale setting of poetry by the Tudor-era writer John Skelton for mezzo-soprano, baritone, chorus, and orchestra. The program pairs it with Five Variants Of “Dives And Lazarus,” an orchestral work based on an English folk melody. Richard Hickox conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus, with soloists Jean Rigby and John Shirley-Quirk.

Collector Note
This 1998 US Musical Heritage Society edition was issued under catalog number 5165744 and licensed from Chandos Records. The recording features the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus under Richard Hickox, with Janice Graham serving as orchestra leader.

Availability
Single copy available—once it’s gone, it’s gone.

Condition & Details
CD: VG+
Case: VG+
Booklet: VG+

Technical Details
Format: CD, Album
Label: Musical Heritage Society – 5165744
Country: US
Released: 1998
Genre: Classical
Style: Choral, Modern
Barcode: 7 17794 65742 5

Tracklist
Five Tudor Portraits
Ballad: The Tunning Of Elinor Rumming
Intermezzo: Pretty Bess
Burlesca: Epitaph On John Jayberd Of Diss
Romanza: Jane Scroop (Her Lament For Philip Sparrow)
Scherzo: Jolly Rutterkin
Five Variants Of “Dives And Lazarus”

Shipping & Handling
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