Holst/ Tippett Quartet - String Quartets 1 & 2SOMM Recordings celebrates the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams's birth with insightful, deeply felt accounts of his String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2, coupled with Gustav Holst's Phantasy Quartet, by the Tippett Quartet. This major release sheds new light on one of the enduring friendships of 20th century British music, Vaughan Williams and Holst having first met at the Royal College of Music in 1895. Vaughan Williams' early interest in chamber

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Using SF's infamous fog as a metaphor for "tough times"

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without sacrificing one to the other

After their first recordings in the doom metal they were developing their music to a more accessible symphonic style

shows Frescobaldi daringly borrowing popular folk tunes to underline the connection between the secular and the sacred

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LG Records is proud as can be to present this lost "gem" on a 200 gram one-sided 45 RPM 12" vinyl pressing housed in a sturdy tip-on style cardboard jacket and printed inner sleeve