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This acclaimed Onyx Classics CD (2016) launched the highly praised Ralph Vaughan Williams symphony cycle by Andrew Manze and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. The album features the composer's Second Symphony ("A London Symphony"), which paints a vivid and nostalgic soundscape of turn-of-the-century London with its misty mornings and Westminster chimes, alongside the Eighth Symphony, his shortest, experimental work utilizing a colorful range of percussion. Manze's interpretation has been widely lauded for its airy clarity, dynamic range, and ability to bring out the deepest British and pastoral tones of the pieces without excess sentimentality.