Chamber Soundclips :: Ralph Vaughan Williams Society

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.
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	From far from eve and morning
	From far from eve and morning
	Is my team ploughing
	Oh when I was in love with you
	Bredon Hill
	Clun

Above left: A.E. Houseman

Phantasy Quintet

For two violins, two violas & cello.
Nash Ensemble
©Hyperion

	Prelude
	Scherzo
	Alla sarabande
	Burlesca

Songs of Travel

Poems by Robert Louis Stephenson. Here orchestrated by RVW.

Thomas Allen (baritone), City of Birmingham Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
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	The Vagabond
	Let beauty awake
	Youth and love
	Whither must I wander

Above left: Robert Louis Stephenson

String Quartet No 2 in A minor (For Jean on her Birthday)

1942.

Music Group of London. Hugh Bean (violin), Frances Mason (violin), Christopher Wellington (viola), Ian Jewel (viola), Eileen Croxford (cello), David Parkhouse (piano).
©EMI

	Allegro
	Andante moderato
	Scherzo
	Finale

Above left: VW with Jean Stewart in 1945 and for whom the quartet was written.

String Quartet No 1 in G minor

1942.

Maggini Quartet, Garfield Jackson (viola).
NAXOS

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	Finale

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

	Fantasia
	Scherzo
	Tema con variazioni

Above left: Hugh Bean pictured at the RVW Society AGM shortly before his death.

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 One of the 'Early Works' composed before his studies with Ravel and which was withdrawn.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'.

Nash Ensemble
©Hyperion

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