Vaughan Williams's Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" for Strings and Harp were given their first performance in New York in 1939, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult during the World's Fair. This performance also comes from New York, given by Leopold Stokowski and the CBS Radio Orchestra on 7 February 1954. Stokowski was a fellow student of Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music in the 1890s and a long-time champion of the composer's music. He conducted the first recording of RVW's 6th Symphony in 1949 and gave the US Premiere of the 9th in 1958. NOTE: This performance has now been released on a 'Guild Historical' CD coupled with works by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich. (GHCD 2426).

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