Perhaps to calm things down a little in GT, I offer you some
Ralf Vaughan Williams
The quality is not always great (which is a shame) but you get the idea. Not entirely sure of the dates on some of these, or even who is performing them, although you can tell some of the amateur ensembles (who aren't bad for all that).
Some of my favourite pieces, old and new performances:
new
The lark Ascending pt1 bbc concert orchestra (janine jansen)
The lark Ascending pt2 bbc concert orchestra (janine jansen)
old
The lark Ascending pt1 adrian boult/LPO (jean pougnet)
The lark Ascending pt2 adrian boult/LPO (jean pougnet)
date?
Tallis Fantasia (extract) anthony collins/LSO
?
the fifties (Barbirolli's "Sinfonia Antartica" mono recording was made in September 1953 - according to youtube comments)
Sinfonia Antarctica
1
2
3
4
5
new (is hard to get better (more professional?) recordings of this)
Serenade to music
pt1
pt2
O clap your hands
A Sea Symphony (one for subsim)
Don't listen to them all at once now
