Home listening - landmark recordings of Vaughan Williams and Tomkins

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Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra excel in a disc of huge contrasts, the Choir of the Chapel Royal channel the court of Charles I; and a last blast from Mariss Jansons

• The rich pathway that runs through English music from William Byrd and Thomas Tomkins to Purcell and on to Ralph Vaughan Williams is traced in two new releases to mark the start of a new decade.