Van Alphen captured Vaughan Williams’ orchestrational palette in very satisfying fashion

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Vaughan Williams Symphony no 2

An evocative tone Poem. I give conductor Van Alphen full credit for a fluent reading which captured Vaughan Williams’ orchestrational palette in very satisfying fashion. The highpoint of this reading was the reflective Lento, a movement described as depicting “Bloomsbury Square on a November afternoon”