‘Matthew Best as conductor is not afraid to bring out the sensuous warmth of this setting of the famous speech from the garden scene in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and the recording, clean on detail as the orchestral introduction makes plain, gives satisfying weight and richness to match. Best appreciates that this is Vaughan Williams as his most gutsy, not just evocative, and the result is profoundly moving.‘ - Gramophone

Track listing:

• Vaughan Williams: Serenade To Music
• Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs - 1. Easter
• Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs - 2. I Got Me Flowers
• Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs - 3. Love Bade Me Welcome
• Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs - 4. The Call
• Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs - 5. Antiphon
• Vaughan Williams: Fantasia On Christmas Carols
• Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi

Artists include:

Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Amanda Roocroft (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Anne Dawson (soprano), Linda Kitchen (soprano), Alan Opie (baritone), Gwynne Howell (bass), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano) & John Connell (bass), Nobuko Imai (viola)