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Manze and the RLPO offer up a truly resplendent Job

Vaughan Williams

Job – A Masque for Dancing; Old King Cole; The Running Set

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Andrew Manze

Onyx ONYX 4240 75:32 mins

Vaughan Williams’s ‘masque for dancing’, , though rarely seen on a theatre stage, has been fortunate on record, with excellent recordings by Adrian Boult, Vernon Handley, Andrew Davis and Mark Elder to choose from. Following his highly successful cycle of VW symphonies with the RLPO, Andrew Manze now adds another.

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