| Naxos | Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in the Gloucestershire village of Down Ampney in 1872, the son of a clergyman. His ancestry on both his father’s and mother’s side was of some intellectual distinction. His father was descended from a family eminent in the law, while his maternal grandfather was a Wedgwood and his grandmother a Darwin. On the death of his father in 1875 the family moved to live with his mother’s father at Leith Hill Place in Surrey. As a child Vaughan Williams learned the piano and the violin and received a conventional upper middle class education at Charterhouse, after which he delayed entry to Cambridge, preferring instead to study at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Hubert Parry and Walter Parratt, later Master of the Queen’s Musick, both soon to be knighted. In 1892 he took up his place at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read History, but took composition lessons from Charles Wood. After graduation in both History and Music, he returned to the Royal College, where he studied composition with Stanford, and, perhaps more significant, became a friend of a fellow-student, Gustav Holst. The friendship with Holst was to prove of great importance in frank exchanges of views on one another’s compositions in the years that followed. |
| Disc No: 8.557114 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: The English Song Series 3 | |
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| Order |
| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | It was a lover and his lass | The Duke Quartet Graham Johnson, piano Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor Simon Keenlyside, baritone | ||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | The lawyer | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | The splendour falls | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | The water mill | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Tired | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Silent noon | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Searching for lambs | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Nocturne | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Joy, Shipmate, Joy! | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Lord, come away | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Come Love, come Lord | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Five Mystical Songs - Easter | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Five Mystical Songs - I got me flowers | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Five Mystical Songs - Love bade me welcome | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Five Mystical Songs - The call | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Five Mystical Songs - Antiphon | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | On Wenlock Edge | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | From far, from eve and morning | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Is my team ploughing? | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Oh, when I was in love with you | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Bredon Hill | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Clun | |||
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Dirge for Fidele |