HDTT proudly announces its remastering of an already fine RCA recording from 1972 (LSC 3281) of the Vaughan Williams unjustly neglected Third Symphony (1922) coupled with the Tuba Concerto (1954), both performed by conductor Andre Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra, John Fletcher, tuba solo. Soprano
Heather Harper performs the lovely, wordless pentatonic recitative intoned over a soft drum roll in the last movement. Harper appears at the coda to lull the music into rapt silence.

The incredibly versatile musician and composer Andre Previn (b. 1929) came to America in 1939 as a result of Nazi anti-Semitism. Andre's great-uncle served as music director of Universal Studios. Andre Previn's avatars in music include his jazz-piano work and film scores through the 1960s; then, beginning in 1967, he succeeded Sir John Barbirolli as conductor in Houston. From 1968-1979 Previn led the London Symphony Orchestra. From 1976-1984, Previn served as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. After having left Los Angeles in 1989, Previn returned to composition, particularly two operas, A Streetcar Named Desire (1998) and Brief Encounter (2009).

Conceived in 1922 as a valediction for the "honored dead" of WW I, the Vaughan Williams Third Symphony also wishes to extol the sounds of peace and a transcendent return to Nature. Composer Peter Warlock called the score "a truly splendid work. . .the best English orchestral music of this century." The shimmering, often incandescent performance by Previn and LSO achieves a luminous gloss that HDTT processing has only made more fervently intense and immediate. The Tuba Concerto bears a direct relationship to the LSO, having been conceived for its principal player, Philip Catalinet, who first recorded the work with Barbirolli. Now among the most popular vehicles for the instrument, the Concerto receives a conscientious, colorful, often witty inscription from Previn and solo John Fletcher, restored in vivid sonics for its thirteen minute duration.

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