Vaughan Williams: Job

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Vaughan Williams: Job
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Artist: R. Vaughan Williams
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-01-01
Music Label: Emi Imports
Soundtracks:
  1. Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis
  2. Five Variants Of 'Dives And Lazarus': Adagio
  3. Five Variants Of 'Dives And Lazarus': I. 1/4 Note = 1/4 Note
  4. Five Variants Of 'Dives And Lazarus': II. Allegro Moderato
  5. Five Variants Of 'Dives And Lazarus': III. 1/4 Note = 150
  6. Five Variants Of 'Dives And Lazarus': IV. L'istesso Tempo
  7. Five Variants Of 'Dives And Lazarus': V. Adagio
  8. Job - A Masque For Dancing: Scene I: Introduction
  9. Job - A Masque For Dancing: Scene I: Saraband Of The Sons Of God
  10. Job - A Masque For Dancing: Scene II: Satan's Dance Of Triumph
  11. Job - A Masque For Dancing: Scene III: Minuet Of The Sons Of Job And Their Wives
  12. Job - A Masque For Dancing: Scene IV: Job's Dream
  13. Job - A Masque For Dancing: Scene V: Dance Of The Three Messengers
  14. Job - A Masque For Dancing: Scene VI: Dance Of Job's Comforters - David Bell
  15. Job - A Masque For Dancing: Scene VII: Elihu's Dance Of Youth And Beauty - David Nolan
  16. Job - A Masque For Dancing: Scene VII: Pavane Of The Sons Of The Morning
  17. Job - A Masque For Dancing: Scene VIII: Galliard Of The Sons Of The Morning
  18. Job - A Masque For Dancing: Scene VIII: Altar Dance
  19. Job - A Masque For Dancing: Scene IX: Epilogue

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Rating: 4 Stars

It seems hard to believe no one's written a review of Handley's rendition of Job: A Masque for Dancing, Ralph Vaughan Williams only dance music. The composer was influenced by watercolor etchings of William Blake that depicted scenes from the Biblical book of Job and this score is the result of that fascination. The score depicts scenes of the devil, Job, Elihu and others from the Biblical text, realized here by Adrian Boult's mentee, Vernon Handley, and played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

This is a nautral for Vaughan Williams' expert Handley that is also included in the conductor's most recently updated box of all the Vaughan Williams symphonies. Handley manages Vaughan Williams better than most conductors even though complaints of conducting neutrality may seep in from time to time. Still, Handley is among the most celebrated living conductor of English music and this recording adds to that legend.

The music itself is unlike anything else Vaughan Williams composed, not only because it is dance music, but because of its orchestral textures that are echt-Stravinkian and late 20th century, its level of emotional content that is on a par with the Symphonies 4 and 6. It is otherwise among the composer's more programmatic content, including his trip to Antarctica in the Symphony No. 7 and his dally around London town in Symphony No. 2.

I've graded the performance four stars arbitrarily. I am a great fan of Vaughan Williams but not so much of Job. It is so startlingly different than the rest of the composer's output as to rattle the listener on first discovery. Anyone coming to the music for the first time should make their own decision about this, of course. On the plus side, this re-recording has a track for every scene, far better than the three tracks that were available when it was first released. The sound, from aoubt 1980, is good without being at the top of today's standards.

Anyone looking for another side of Ralph Vaughan Williams -- or anyone that only thinks he wrote in the 20th century British romantic-pastoral format -- should hear this to understand differently.
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