Composers Performers

Ralf Vaughan-Williams

Ralf Vaughan-Williams (1872–1958)

Great Britain · Late romanticism

3 Poems by Walt Whitman (1925)
`49th Parallel` - Film Score (1941)
A Song of Thanksgiving (originally Thanksgiving for Victory) for narrator, soprano, cchorus and orchestra (1944)
A Vision of Aeroplanes (1955)
Alister McAlpine`s Lament (1912)
`All people that on earth do dwell` (The Old Hundredth) (1953)
Alleluya, sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol) (W. Chatterton Dix -Prichard harm. RVW) (1906)
And all in the morning (trad. Eng. harm. RVW) (1919)
Anthem `O how amiable` (1934)
Arrangements of folk songs: Newfoundland - The Cuckoo (1934)
Arrangements of folk songs: Newfoundland - The Maiden`s Lament (1934)
Arrangements of folk songs: Newfoundland - The Morning Dew (1934)
Arrangements of folk songs: Voice & violin - Searching for Lambs (1913)
Arrangements of folk songs: Voice & violin - The Lawyer (1913)
Arrangements of folk songs: Voice, vlolln & plano - How cold the wind doth blow (or The Unquiet Grave) (1912)
Arrangements of folk songs: Wessex - `The Brewer` (1935)
Arrangements of folk songs: Wessex - Rolling in the Dew (1935)
Ballet `Job: A Masque for Dancing` (1931)
Ballet suite for flute and piano (1913)
Benedicite, for soprano, choir and orchestra (1929)
`Bitter Springs` - Film Score (1950)
Bucolic Suite (or Pastoral Suite) (1900-01)
Cantata `Dona Nobis Pacem` (1936)
Cantata `In Windsor Forest` (1929)
Cantata: A Cotswold Romance (Concert peformance version of Hugh the Drover (1951)
Charterhouse Suite (for strings) (1923)
`Coastal Command` Suite from the film (1943)
`Come down, 0 Love divine` (Down Ampney) 3.41 (trans. R. F. Littledale -v.4 arr. Williamson) (1906)
Concerto Accademico for violin and orchestra (1924-25)
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in a-moll (1944)
Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra (1954)
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra arr. by Joseph Cooper in collaboration with the composer (1946)
Concerto Grosso, for three groups of strings, each requiring different levels of technical skill (1950)
`Dawn Patrol` (1942)
Epithalamion (Edmund Spenser) for baritone, chorus, piano, solo flute and string orchestra (1957)
Fantasia (quasi variazione) on the Old 104th Psalm Tune for piano, chorus, and orchestra (1949)
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910-19)
Fantasia on Greensleeves (1934)
Five English Folk Songs (1913)
Five English Folk Songs (1913)
Five Mystical Songs - for baritone, chorus and orchestra (1911)
Five variants of `Dives and Lazarus` for Orchestra & Harp (1939)
Flourish for Glorious John (Barbirolli) for Orchestra (1957)
Folksong Arrangements: `An Acre of Land` (1934)
Folksong Arrangements: `Bushes and Briars` (1908)
Folksong Arrangements: `Ca` the Yowes` (1922)
Folksong Arrangements: `Early in the Spring` (1950)
Folksong Arrangements: `Greensleeves` (1934)
Folksong Arrangements: `John Dory` (1934)
Folksong Arrangements: `Loch Lomond` (1921)
Folksong Arrangements: `The Seeds of Love` (1923)
Folksong Arrangements: `The Turtle Dove` (1924)
Folksong Arrangements: `The Unquiet Grave` (1950)
Folksong Arrangements: `Ward, the Pirate` (1912)
Folksong Arrangements: Carols - `Joseph and Mary` (1920)
Folksong Arrangements: Carols - `The Saviour`s Love` (1920)
Folksong Arrangements: Carols - `The Truth Sent from Above` (1919)
Folksong Arrangements: East Anglia - `As I walked out` (1908)
Folksong Arrangements: East Anglia - `Bushes and Briars` (1908)
Folksong Arrangements: East Anglia - `Geordie` (1908)
Folksong Arrangements: East Anglia - `On Board a Ninety-Eight` (1908)
Folksong Arrangements: East Anglia - `The Captain`s Apprentice` (1908)
Folksong Arrangements: France - `Ballade de Jesus Christ` (1904)
Folksong Arrangements: France - `Chanson de quete` (1904)
Folksong Arrangements: France - `Reveillez-vous, Piccars` (1903)
Folksong Arrangements: Newfoundland - `She`s like the swallow` (1934)
Folksongs of the Four Seasons, Suite for Choir and Orchestra (1949)
`For all the saints` (Sine nomine) (William Walsham How) (1906)
Four Hymns : for tenor and piano (or strings) with viola obbligato (1914)
Four Last Songs (1954-58)
Four Poems by Fredegond Shove (1922)
Heroic Elegy and Triumphal Epilogue (1901)
`Hodie` - Christmas cantata for soloists, choir and orchestra (1954)
`Household Music` - 3 Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes for String Quartet (1940-41)
In the Fen Country (1904)
Joseph and Mary (trad. Eng. arr. RVW) (1920)
Magnificat (1932)
Masque `On Christmas Night` (1926)
Mass in g-moll for unaccompanied choir (1922)
`Merciless Beauty` - three rondels for tenor, two violins and cello (1921)
Motet `Lord, Thou hast been our refuge` (1921)
Motet `O clap your hands` (1920)
Motet `O taste and see` (1953)
Motet `O vos omnes` (1922)
Motet `Prayer to the Father of Heaven` (1948)
Nocturne and Scherzo for Violin and Piano (1906)
Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 in E minor (1905-06)
Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2 in D minor (1906)
O little town of Bethlehem (Forest Green) (1906)
Old King Cole, ballet for orchestra and optional chorus (1923)
Opera `Hugh the Drover, or Love in the Stocks` (1910-14)
Opera `Riders to the Sea` (1925-32)
Opera `Sir John in Love` (1924-28)
Opera `The Poisoned Kiss` (1936)
Oratorio `Sancta Civitas` (1923-25)
Oxford Elegy for Narrator, Chorus and Orchestra (1949)
Partita for Double String Orchestra (1938)
Parts of Works
Phantasy Quintet (1912)
Piano concerto in C (1926-31)
Prelude 49th Parallel (1940-41)
Prelude and Fugue in C minor (1921-30)
Prelude on an Old Carol Tune (1950)
Quintet for Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Cello and Piano in D-dur (1898)
Quintet for Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass & Piano in c-moll (1903-05)
Romance and Pastorale for Violin and Piano (1912-14)
Romance for viola and piano (1914)
Romance in D flat for harmonica with strings and pianoforte (1951)
Romanza for Cello and Orchestra (1954)
`Scott of the Antarctic` - Film score (1948)
Sea Songs - March (1923)
Serenade to Music (choir version) (1938)
Serenade to Music (orchestra version) (1938-39)
Sinfonia Antarctica (Symphony No. 7) for full orchestra, soprano soloist, and women`s chorus (1949-52)
Six Studies in English Folk Song (1926)
Six Studies in English Folk-Song for cello (clarinet/violin/viola) and piano (1926)
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Minor (1952)
Song `Come away, death` (William Shakespeare `Twelfth Night`) (1909)
Song `Down among the dead men` (Anon. Traditional) (1912)
Song `Heart`s Music` (Thomas Campion) (1954)
Song `Linden Lea` (1901)
Song `Mannin Veen` Manx Melody (Dear Mona - Stranger, if thou seekest ease) (1912)
Song `Orpheus With His Lute` (1904)
Song `Rest` (Christina Rossetti) (1902)
Song `The winter is gone` (Anon. Traditional) (1912)
Song Cycle `Along the Field` (1927)
Song Cycle `On Wenlock Edge` for tenor, piano and string quartet (1909)
Song Cycle `The House of Life` (1904)
Songs of Travel (1901-04)
String Quartet in C (1898)
String Quartet No. 1 in g-moll (1908)
String Quartet No. 2 in a-moll (1942-43)
Suite `Flos Campi` for viola, chorus and orchestra (1925)
Suite for Viola and Orchestra (1931)
Suite of Six Short Pieces, for piano (1921)
Suite on themes English Folk Songs (1923)
Suite Portraits of the Tudors for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1936)
Symphonic Poem `In the Fen Country` (1904)
Symphony № 2, A London Symphony (1912-33)
Symphony No.1 `A Sea Symphony` for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus, and orchestra (1903-23)
Symphony No.3 A Pastoral for full orchestra with soprano (or tenor) voice (1921)
Symphony No.4 f-moll (1931-34)
Symphony No.5 D-dur (1938-51)
Symphony No.6 e-moll (1944-47)
Symphony No.8 in d-moll (1953-55)
Symphony No.9 in e-moll (1956-57)
Te Deum in G-dur (1928)
Ten Blake Songs, song cycle for high voice and oboe , written for film The Vision of William Blake (1957)
The Bridal Day (1938-39)
`The Death of Tintagiles` Incidental music to the play by Maurice Maeterlinck (1913)
`The Dim Little Island` - Film score (1949)
The England of Elizabeth - Film score (1957)
The England of Elizabeth: Three Portraits 1. Explorer (Drake) 2. Poet (Shakespeare) 3. Queen (Elizabeth I) (1955)
`The First Nowell` : nativity play adapted from medieval pageants by Simona Pakenham; score completed by Roy Douglas (1958)
`The Lark Ascending` - Romance for Violin and Orchestra (1914)
`The Loves of Joanna Godden` (1947)
`The New Ghost` (Shove) (1922)
`The People`s Land` (1943)
`The Pilgrim`s Progress` (b): opern scene `The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains` (1921)
`The Pilgrim`s Progress` (d): `A Bunyan Sequence` for three speakers, treble solo, chorus & orchestra (1942)
`The Pilgrim`s Progress` (e): Opera (1951-52)
`The Running Set` : Traditional Dance Tunes for orchestra (1933)
The Strory of a Flemish Farm - Orchestral Suite (1943)
`The Truth from Above` (trad. Eng. harm. RVW) (1919)
`The Water Mill` (Fredegond Shove) (1922)
Three Choral Hymns (1929)
Three Elizabethan Part Songs (1896)
Three Impressions for Orchestra (1903-07)
Three Preludes for Organ founded on Welsh hymn tunes (1920)
Three Shakespeare Songs (1951)
`Toward the Unknown Region`, song for choir and orchestra (1906)
Treatment of Folk Songs: Wessex - The Ploughman (1934)
Two English Folk Songs (1935)
Two Hymn-Preludes for little orchestra (1936)
Two Organ Preludes founded on Welsh Folk Songs (1956)
Valiant-For-Truth (1940)
Variation on the theme of Christmas carols for baritone, chorus and orchestra (1912)
Variations for Orchestra (1957)
`Wasps` - Arlstophanlc Suite (1909)
Whitsunday Hymn (Three Choral Hymns) (1929)
Yorkshire Wassall Song (We`ve been awhile a·wandering) (1919)