William Vann, Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea - Ralph Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Christmas (2021)

Posted By: ArlegZ

Date: Dec. 22, 2023

This recording focusses on arrangements made by Vaughan Williams for The Oxford Book of Carols (1928), coupled with two later carols published by OUP. Many of the tunes are far from well-known and deserve a new audience. 10 of the 22 tracks are first recordings, but reserve the right to have overlooked one or two amidst the vast but very mixed heritage of recorded carols. The preface to The Oxford Book of Carols tells us that: "Variety in the method of singing is even more important than with hymns, and the verses should never be sung straight through all in the same way". In this spirit the choir’s director, William Vann, has prepared the carols for recording with a mixture of accompanied, unaccompanied and solo verses. Few of these carols are likely to have been undertaken by a congregation; this recording by a choir of distinguished professional singers presents the carols at their best, supported by the Henry Willis organ of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, in half of the carols.

Performer:
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann, director
Joshua Ryan, organ

Tracklist:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Arrangements from The Oxford Book of Carols
01. Sussex Mummers' Carol
02. Hereford Carol
03. A Virgin Most Pure
04. Sussex Carol (Second Tune)
05. Gloucestershire Wassail
06. The Salutation Carol
07. The Bellman's Song (Third Tune)
08. Job (Come All You Worthy Christian Men - Third Tune)
09. This Endris Night
10. Sussex Carol (First Tune)
11. Coverdalle's Carol
12. Song of the Crib
13. Children's Song of the Nativity
14. If Ye Would Hear the Angels Sing
15. Quem Pastores - Shepherds Left Their Flocks A-Straying
16. The Bellman's Song (Second Tune)
17. Joseph and Mary
18. Job (Come All You Worthy Christian Men - Fourth Tune)
19. The Seven Virgins
20. Psalm of Sion
21. O My Dear Heart
22. God Bless the Master of This House

EAC LOG

Exact Audio Copy V1.5 from 20. February 2020

EAC extraction logfile from 10. October 2023, 17:12

The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea / Vaughan Williams - An Oxford Christmas

Used drive : hp DVD A DH16ACSHR Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" -T "BAND=%albuminterpret%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" %hascover%–picture="%coverfile%"%hascover% %source% -o %dest%

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 4:54.42 | 0 | 22091
2 | 4:54.42 | 2:45.70 | 22092 | 34536
3 | 7:40.37 | 6:00.35 | 34537 | 61571
4 | 13:40.72 | 2:10.32 | 61572 | 71353
5 | 15:51.29 | 1:39.66 | 71354 | 78844
6 | 17:31.20 | 2:53.30 | 78845 | 91849
7 | 20:24.50 | 3:00.26 | 91850 | 105375
8 | 23:25.01 | 3:08.36 | 105376 | 119511
9 | 26:33.37 | 3:49.27 | 119512 | 136713
10 | 30:22.64 | 1:42.65 | 136714 | 144428
11 | 32:05.54 | 2:34.56 | 144429 | 156034
12 | 34:40.35 | 4:28.65 | 156035 | 176199
13 | 39:09.25 | 2:06.31 | 176200 | 185680
14 | 41:15.56 | 2:33.05 | 185681 | 197160
15 | 43:48.61 | 1:26.08 | 197161 | 203618
16 | 45:14.69 | 2:26.56 | 203619 | 214624
17 | 47:41.50 | 3:31.24 | 214625 | 230473
18 | 51:12.74 | 2:38.74 | 230474 | 242397
19 | 53:51.73 | 4:21.20 | 242398 | 261992
20 | 58:13.18 | 2:59.08 | 261993 | 275425
21 | 61:12.26 | 3:52.41 | 275426 | 292866
22 | 65:04.67 | 3:09.17 | 292867 | 307058

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename E:\DP\The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea - Vaughan Williams - An Oxford Christmas.wav

Peak level 99.9 %
Extraction speed 6.8 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC AE4A2D99
Copy CRC AE4A2D99
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [3C7D1C9C] (AR v2)
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [D6564996] (AR v2)
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [6185A51B] (AR v2)
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [978CA717] (AR v2)
Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [56AA4E7F] (AR v2)
Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [FE502C1C] (AR v2)
Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [94BA008F] (AR v2)
Track 8 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [71D53E56] (AR v2)
Track 9 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [A09617BD] (AR v2)
Track 10 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [F5071FC3] (AR v2)
Track 11 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [7166583E] (AR v2)
Track 12 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [F52096DD] (AR v2)
Track 13 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [EE8801BC] (AR v2)
Track 14 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [34C75792] (AR v2)
Track 15 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [3C21ECA6] (AR v2)
Track 16 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [A31F39EF] (AR v2)
Track 17 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [D9B773FC] (AR v2)
Track 18 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [9600BECD] (AR v2)
Track 19 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [5A68E7BF] (AR v2)
Track 20 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [EB08A2BD] (AR v2)
Track 21 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [EBAFC650] (AR v2)
Track 22 accurately ripped (confidence 2) [3D455C38] (AR v2)

All tracks accurately ripped

End of status report

–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.6

[CTDB TOCID: K8K4ZxlpJYm8gq3X2WkB4nuHT9o-] found
Submit result: K8K4ZxlpJYm8gq3X2WkB4nuHT9o- has been confirmed
Track | CTDB Status
1 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
2 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
3 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
4 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
5 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
6 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
7 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
8 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
9 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
10 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
11 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
12 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
13 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
14 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
15 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
16 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
17 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
18 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
19 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
20 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
21 | (5/5) Accurately ripped
22 | (5/5) Accurately ripped

==== Log checksum 6578073C016D8939BAC49637CDCFCB25446776D500AF5202C8F575675015BD12 ====

Thanks to the original releaser

DOWNLOAD FROM USENET - 14 DAYS FREE ACCESS