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KISSING HER HAIR




Twenty early songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Kissing Her Hair, is a collection of early Vaughan Williams songs. One, Rondel, from which the title is gained, is unpublished and unrecorded; it is serenely beautiful and is as it was written when the composer was only 22. It will change perceptions of the quality of music Vaughan Williams was composing at this early age.

Sarah Fox, Soprano
Andrew Staples, Tenor
Iain Burnside, Piano



MUSIC IN THE HEART




A commemorative Album marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams on 26th August 1958.

CD 1
SERENADE TO MUSIC
LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Ralph Vaughan Williams, conductor
(Recorded live at the Royal Concert on 22 November 1951 in the Royal Festival Hall, London)

THE PILGRIM'S JOURNEY (arranged by Roy Douglas)
Louis Bové (soprano), Clifford Scott (tenor), John Peck (baritone), Arnold Ostlund Jr. (organ)
Plymouth Choir
Henry Pfohl
(Recorded live in the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims on Sunday 4 April 1965)

CD 2
THE TEACHINGS OF STANFORD AND PARRY - A talk by RVW
(edited from a broadcast on 17 November 1955)

Excerpt from the Funeral Service of Ralph Vaughan Williams
(Westminster Abbey, Friday September 19th 1958 at 11.30am)