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  Vaughan Williams Chamber Works Soundclips

 
  VW and Adeline playing chamber music

Above: Vaughan Williams (viola), Adeline (cello) with friends, René and Nicholas Gatty approx 1904

  On Wenlock Edge
1942.
A cycle of six songs for tenor with string quartet and piano accompaniment. Settings from 'A Shropshire Lad' by A.E. Housman.
London Philharmonic, Ian Bostridge (tenor), Conductor Bernard Haitink.
©EMI

Left: A.E. Houseman
 
On Wenlock Edge
From far from eve and morning
Is my team ploughing
Oh when I was in love with you
Bredon Hill
Clin

  Phantasy Quintet
  For two violins, two violas & cello.
Nash Ensemble
©Hyperion
 
Prelude
Scherzo
Alla sarabande
Burlesca

  Songs of Travel
RL Stephenson To poems by Robert Louis Stephenson. Here orchestrated by RVW.
Thomas Allen (baritone), City of Birmingham Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
©HMV

Left: Robert Louis Stephenson
 
The Vagabond
Let beauty awake
Youth and love
Whither must I wander

  String Quartet No 2 in A minor (For Jean on her Birthday)
jean Stewart 1942.
Music Group of London. Hugh Bean (violin), Frances Mason (violin), Christopher Wellington (viola), Ian Jewel (viola), Eileen Croxford (cello), David Parkhouse (piano).
©EMI

Left: VW with Jean Stewart in 1945 and for whom the quartet was written.
 
Allegro
Andante moderato
Scherzo
Finale

  String Quartet No 1 in A minor
  1942.
Maggini Quartet, Garfield Jackson (viola).
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  Six Studies in English Folk Song
  1926
Music Group of London. Hugh Bean (violin), Frances Mason (violin), Christopher Wellington (viola), Ian Jewel (viola), Eileen Croxford (cello), David Parkhouse (piano).
©EMI
 
Adagio
Andante sostenuto
Larghetto
Lento
Andante tranquillo
Allegro vivace

  Violin Sonata in A minor'
1954
Music Group of London. Hugh Bean (violin), Frances Mason (violin), Christopher Wellington (viola), Ian Jewel (viola), Eileen Croxford (cello), David Parkhouse (piano).
©EMI

Left: Hugh Bean pictured at the RVW Society AGM shortly before his death.
 
Fantasia
Scherzo
Tema con variazioni

  Piano Quintet in C Minor
  1903. For violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano. One of the 'Early Works' composed before his studies with Ravel and which was withdrawn. After the passage of time and in view of the wide interest in the composer's early works, his widow Ursula in consultation with her advisers agreed to the release of selected compositions and their publication by Faber Music in the series 'Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Early Works'. See http://www.rvwsociety.com/earlychamberworks.htm
Nash Ensemble
©Hyperion
 
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  Romance and Pastorale
  1914. For violin and piano. Another of the 'Early Works' composed before his studies with Ravel and which was withdrawn. See http://www.rvwsociety.com/earlychamberworks.htm
Nash Ensemble
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