With Waynflete Singers; David Dunnett, organ; soloists:
Libby Crabtree, soprano; Donald Sweeney, bass; Stephen Ryde-Weller, treble; Nicholas Richardson, treble
Recorded in Winchester Cathedral, January 1994
My feeling is that the majority of classical CD releases almost from the start have been 'International' and the idea of release nationality is of diminishing relevance. A 'record club' release is one of the occasional cases where a country can confidently be ascribed to the release.
I favour keeping this release shown as 'International' but I am always happy to defer to a higher authority.
@PhilMH,I'm sorry,but i'd have to disagree on this one, without resorting to guessing,we know for sure that this was issued in Europe,and i believe it should be changed to that.Until someone can confirm that this Cat.No./label/barcode was issued elsewhere,in which case it can be changed to International.What you say may indeed turn out to be true,but surely we can't just go on hunches.I've had a quick search and can only find this European release and the US one,i believe the equivalent Australian release was on Australian Eloquence ELQ 4806554 (different label/Cat/barcode),sorry to harp-on,but i think it's important that we just stick to the facts wherever possible.
Greg.;)
Chances are that International would still be ok, as it would most likely have been released in Australia too, we usually got the European pressings of PolyGram's and Universal's classical issues (with Australian pressings on budget series like Belart or Eloquence). I imagine that this would only have had one press run for Europe/Rest of the World, as it would have had a short shelf life, being a Christmas album.
The fact that this is on London rather than Decca suggests to me that this was intended for the Americas (where the Decca name was owned by MCA Records, not PolyGram) as well as the UK and Europe, and maybe PolyGram didn't consider it worthwhile to produce separate pressings for the different regions, so I would make this International.
Someone's just put this on YT, and to date it's had 4 'views'
If you love the tragic sensuality of Vaughan Williams, and if you admire the work of David Hill, you may like to give it a few more views
Put your headphones on, or dig out the monitor speakers, for when the organ comes in...