Vaughan Williams 5th Symphony is a set work on the new AQA A-Level Music Syllabus. This new large format study score has been produced after feedback from teachers.It is newly engraved easy to read and has space for students to make notesIt corrects misprints included in the previous editionsIt includes a preface by Vaughan Williams scholar Michael Kennedy on the history of the work
Reduction for oboe and piano-You won't find many better 20th Century Woodwind Concertos than this one. In fact this is the only one that Vaughan Williams ever wrote. This wonderful version is for solo Oboe with a Piano Reduction by Michael Millinar.
These wonderful songs are settings of texts from Shakespeare's The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The three pieces were originally composed for The British Federation of Music Festivals National Competitive Festival June 1951. Scored for SSATB a cappella though this edition also includes a Piano reduction for rehearsal purposes.
For soprano soloist and SATB with organ introduction. Composed for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and performed at the moment of Communion. This piece is also available in an SSA arrangement (N3512).
for vocal soloists or SATB choir and orchestra or reduced orchestra Also available for full orchestra only. This tender and much-loved work was composed in 1938 in honour of Sir Henry Wood. It was written for 16 soloists and orchestra but may also be sung by four soloists and chorus, or by mixed-voice chorus. This beautifully presented edition includes an introduction by Michael Kennedy. Forces o…
for unison treble chorus with SA semi-chorus and piano or orchestra or strings and piano Part of the cantata Folk Songs of the Four Seasons. Instrumental material is available on hire.
Vaughan Williams's famous romance for solo violin and orchestra is given new life in this beautiful arrangement which features the original solo line as part of a string sextet. Perfect as a rehearsal tool in preparation a larger-scale orchestral concert the arrangement is also ideal for performance in a chamber recital.
Hardback-A new edition by Peter Horton of Vaughan Williams's much-loved symphony published as part of the 2008 celebrations of 50th anniversary of his death. Contains an introduction by Michael Kennedy and textual notes.
Paperback-Vaughan Williams fist encountered the old English folk song Dives and Lazarus when he was 21 and here presents five variants that are in his own words 'not exact replicas of traditional tunes but rather reminiscences of various versions in my own collection and those of others'.The work was premiered in Carnegie Hall as part of the 1939 New York World's Fair and is a wonderful exampl…
Vaughan Williams's famous romance for solo violin and orchestra is given new life in this beautiful arrangement which features the original solo line as part of a string sextet. Perfect as a rehearsal tool in preparation a larger-scale orchestral concert the arrangement is also ideal for performance in a chamber recital.
This engaging work was composed in 1929 and premiered the following year by its dedicatee the legendary Spanish cellist Pablo Casals. The five folk songs on which the work is founded are 'Salisbury Plain' 'The Long Whip' 'Low down in the broom' 'Bristol Town' and 'I've been to France'. This arrangement for solo Viola and Orchestra is compatible with the original Orchestral accompaniment mate…
A setting of a poem by Ursula Wood later to become Ursula Vaughan Williams. The dedication reads 'To the memory of Charles Villiers Stanford and his Blue Bird'.
Originally intended as the first piece in a cycle of four impressions entitled 'In the New Forest' Burley Heath was written in 1902 but never finished.The manuscript represents a 168-bar fragment which James Francis Brown the editor of this edition has completed by inserting a recapitulation of the initial material. Marking the first publication of this previously little-known early work this…
The SSA arrangement of a motet setting of Psalm 34:8. The original SATB version was composed for the Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in June 1953. This arrangement is for unaccompanied voices but has a four-bar introduction for Organ.
A cantata for soprano and baritone soloists SATB and orchestra Drawing upon the Bible sections from the Mass and poems by Walt Whitman this is a powerful evocation of the destruction and death brought about through war and violence with an overarching message of peace and reconciliation. Materials for the full orchestral version and an accompaniment for strings and piano are available on hir…
Vaughan Williams's famous romance for solo violin and orchestra is given new life in this beautiful arrangement which features the original solo line as part of a string sextet. Perfect as a rehearsal tool in preparation a larger-scale orchestral concert the arrangement is also ideal for performance in a chamber recital.
Paperback-Vaughan Williams' hauntingly beautiful The Lark Ascending is one of his most endearingly 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 delicate orchestral textures demonstrates the composer's mastery of the pastoral idiom.This edition of the full…
A touching and dramatic motet by the immensly gifted composer Vaughan Williams. Composed for the dediation service of the Battle of Britain Chapel in Westminster Abbey on July 10th 1947. He has wonderfully set this biblical text for STB Soloists and SATB Unaccompanied.
Paperback-Vaughan Williams fist encountered the old English folk song Dives and Lazarus when he was 21 and here presents five variants that are in his own words 'not exact replicas of traditional tunes but rather reminiscences of various versions in my own collection and those of others'.The work was premiered in Carnegie Hall as part of the 1939 New York World's Fair and is a wonderful exampl…
in E-minor-This scholarly edition replaces the original 1958 edition and includes detailed preliminary matter comprising a preface sources and editorial method and detailed textual notes.
Paperback-Vaughan Williams fist encountered the old English folk song Dives and Lazarus when he was 21 and here presents five variants that are in his own words 'not exact replicas of traditional tunes but rather reminiscences of various versions in my own collection and those of others'.The work was premiered in Carnegie Hall as part of the 1939 New York World's Fair and is a wonderful exampl…
