Ralph Vaughan Williams

Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1895-1958

For Soprano and Baritone Soli, Chorus and Orchestra

A Sea Symphony

Composed 1912-1913; first revised before 1918. Published in 1920. Dedicated to George Butterworth. This Dover edition is available again after being out of print for some time.

A London symphony

Ralph Vaughan Williams’ incidental music for Gilbert Murray’s English translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris is edited and arranged for orchestra by Alan Tongue. Vaughan Williams was brought into the production of three Greek plays by the dancer Isadora Duncan, with the public performance taking place at London’s Royal Court Theatre on Friday 31 May 1912. A preview of the production, appearing in The Globe, remarked of Vaughan Williams’ musical settings: “they are an attempt at something new, and something which is neither German nor French. This music is no experiment in style. It would seem, rather, as though the composer had disclaimed all styles and all schools, and found direct inspiration in the material of the poet’s inspiration, and the result is something of undeniable beauty.”

incidental music for chorus and orchestra

Iphigenia in Tauris

Composed for violin and piano in 1914, and reworked for violin and orchestra in 1920, this is one of Vaughan Williams' most enduringly popular works. A serene romance, the work takes its title from a poem by George Meredith. The violin's magical evocation of the lark's 'chirrup, whistle, slur and shake', as it soars above the delicate accompanying textures, demonstrates the composer's mastery of the pastoral idiom.

romance for violin and orchestra

The lark ascending

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Five Mystical Songs

Albert Lancaster Lloyd

From the Journal of the Folk Song Society and the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society

The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

Christopher Morris

Orlando Gibbons

Prelude on song 13

Hodie

This Day

for 5 soloists, womens' chorus and orchestra This one act opera, from a play by J.M. Synge, is the story of a family's lament for sons lost at sea off the Donegal coast. It's notable for the orchestral portraits of the sea and the wind, which ultimately lead to the Sinfonia Antartica, and many think it Vaughan Wililams's finest theatrical work.

Riders to the Sea

Walt Whitman

For Soli and Double Chorus

Communion Service in G Minor

Newly engraved edition of VW's masterpiece for strings. Instrumenation: solo string quartet, double string orchestra, 15 minutes ISMN 979-0-58042-003-9

Study Score

Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

Percy Dearmer

Songs of Praise for Boys and Girls

Songs of Praise was first published in 1925, and is still an immensely popular hymnbook, particularly in schools. The compilation falls into two parts: Book 1 contains hymns grouped by subject and theme, together with a selection of verses, canticles and doxologies; Book 2 contains general hymns listed alphabetically by first line.

Songs of Praise

Eight Traditional English Carols

A. L. Lloyd

This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside � but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land � as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man�s relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

English Folk Songs

Michael Mullinar

for violin and piano An accessible arrangement to violinists and welcome addition to the repertoire for advanced beginners.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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