To round off this Vaughan Williams anniversary year, here are the remainder of Henry Wood’s recordings of Vaughan Williams’s music: The Serenade to Music, The Wasps Overture and the Fantasia on Greensleeves.
Download – Vaughan Williams – The Wasps – Wood
Download – Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Greensleeves – Wood
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Vaughan Williams – The Wasps – Overture
Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Greensleeves
Originally issued on Decca K.821/2
Matrices TA 2136, 2137, 2138 (The Wasps), TA 2139 (Greensleeves)
Recorded 22nd April 1936
The Queen’s Hall Orchestra, Sir Henry J. Wood
George Stratton, leader
The present transfers are made from the Decca Ace of Clubs LP reissue, ACL 255.
Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
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