As the kingdom entered the digital age, the stereo Ralph Vaughan Williams cycles, the venerable Adrian Boult/London Philharmonic of EMI and the heroic André Previn/London Symphony of RCA, began to seem old-fashioned, faded, and no longer relevant to listeners. So the cry went out into the land for a new, digital Vaughan Williams cycle, and, lo, there came out of Chandos Bryden Thomson and with him came the London Symphony and they did remake Vaughan Williams in their modernist image. For some symphonies, it was said this ...
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As the kingdom entered the digital age, the stereo Ralph Vaughan Williams cycles, the venerable Adrian Boult/London Philharmonic of EMI and the heroic André Previn/London Symphony of RCA, began to seem old-fashioned, faded, and no longer relevant to listeners. So the cry went out into the land for a new, digital Vaughan Williams cycle, and, lo, there came out of Chandos Bryden Thomson and with him came the London Symphony and they did remake Vaughan Williams in their modernist image. For some symphonies, it was said this was a good thing, that the Fourth's raucous strength and the Sixth's malignant power had never been so vehemently expressed, nor had the Sinfonia Antartica's immense scope, the Eight's ironic wit, and the Ninth's explosive energy been so violently articulated. Yet for other symphonies, it was said that this was not a good thing, that A Sea Symphony's endless wastes and A London Symphony's gaudy dreariness had never been so ruthlessly exposed, nor had A Pastoral Symphony's verdant bliss...
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