BBC Symphony Orchestra
Walt Whitman's poetry features both in Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony and in Hoist's setting of When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'd. With Tommy Pearson. Hoist Ode to Death BBC Symphony Chorus, conductor Stephen Jackson Howells Piano Concerto No 2
Howard Shelley, conductor Richard Hickox Vaughan Williams Symphony No 1 (A Sea Symphony) Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Thomas Hampson (baritone), BBC
Symphony Chorus, conductor Andrew Davis