Hardback-Ralph Vaughan Williams's 6th Symphony was composed immediately after the Second World War and its dramatic and at times violent musical language was long felt to be a comment on that conflict (though the composer denied it had any programmatic intent). Its power and invention were immediately recognized and it has remained part of the concert repertoire ever since. For this newly engraved…
Ralph Vaughan Williams' Benedicite for soprano solo mixed chorus (or women's voices) and large orchestra or strings organ and/or piano Orchestral material and the arrangement for women's voices are available on hire. Standard notation and solfa.
A Little Piano Book is a delightful collection of six simple pieces for solo piano composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. These six pieces were first published in three volumes in 1934 under the title Six Teaching Pieces For Pianoforte. They were published together as A Little Piano Book in 1984.
The one-act ballet Job has been described as one of Vaughan Williams's mightiest achievements. It is a work which in a full production combines painting literature music and dance. The work was inspired by William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job and includes quotations from the King James Bible.The result is a musical masterpiece combining the ancient and the modern: Vaughan Willia…
Vaughan Williams began this work - his earliest known piece for a solo instrument with orchestra - in 1896 shortly after returning to the Royal College of Music to study composition with Stanford and completed it in 1904. After his death the manuscript was donated to the British Library and it was here that the pianist Mark Bebbington rediscovered it in 2010 subsequently recording it for Somm…
Vaughan Williams wrote his Symphony No. 8 between 1953 and 1955 when he was in his eighties. It is his shortest symphony and is considered by many to be his least serious. Aside from a few sombre moments the symphony is optimistic in mood and displays Vaughan Williams's love for exotic and colourful combinations of instruments with a percussion sections that he said employs 'all the 'phones …
The 1948 film 'Scott of the Antarctic' is well-known for its Vaughan Williams score which he later reworked to create Sinfonia Antartica. Vaughan Williams's original score for the film is now presented in its full unedited form allowing listeners to hear the full grandeur of the composer's original.
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
Originally the title for Vaughan Williams's opera Sir John in Love Fat Knight was conceived as a seven-movement orchestral suite that drew upon the opera and had as its central character Shakespeare's Falstaff. Vaughan Williams never completed the work and left only a two-piano score the basis of this realisation.
Vaughan Williams began this work - his earliest known piece for a solo instrument with orchestra - in 1896 shortly after returning to the Royal College of Music to study composition with Stanford and completed it in 1904. After his death the manuscript was donated to the British Library and it was here that the pianist Mark Bebbington rediscovered it in 2010 subsequently recording it for Somm…
Paperback-Jointly commissioned by The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust and Oxford University Press 'A Road All Paved With Stars' is a single-movement work incorporating the finest music of Vaughan Williams's opera The Poisoned Kiss.
William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982) was a British organist, composer and pedagogue. He started playing the organ at an early age, becoming a well-known recitalist by the age of 14. He studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, where he himself later taught. His best known work is the orchestral tone poem Aurora , but he also wrote many popular Organ works, which are now experi…
Arranged here for Organ the Centenary Collection celebrates the life and works of the British organist and composer William Lloyd Webber. Born in 1914 by the age of 14 Lloyd Webber had already become awell-known Organ recitalist giving frequent performances at many important churches and cathedrals throughout Great Britain. He won an Organ scholarship to Mercer's School later winning a further…
This three volume series comprises the bulk of the solo songs which Vaughan Williams published with Oxford University Press. The songs span his whole long career until his death in 1958. The majority are suitable for medium voice.
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\' arrangement of the traditional tune The Turtle Dove is for Baritone solo and mixed chorus. A Piano accompaniment is provided for rehearsal purposes.
Reduction for viola and piano-This work was inspired by Lionel Tertis who was the Viola soloist for a performance of Vaughan Williams' Flos Campi in 1925. Tertis' talent led the composer to write this Suite for him in 1934 which comprises eight short pieces. This edition features a Piano reduction of the original orchestral score.The solo viola part is also included on a separate insert.
