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  Vaughan Williams and Whitsuntide singers

Above: RVW singing with the Whitsuntide Singers outside Chichester Cathedral. Holst was conducting.

  The Sky Above the Roof
Paul Verlaine 1908. For voice and piano. Text from the poem Le ciel est pardessus le toit by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896).
Ruth Golden: Soprano. Levering Rothfuss: Piano
©Koch 3-7168-2 H1

Left: Paul Verlaine
 
The Sky Above the Roof

  The House of Life
Rosetti Words by D.G. Rossetti. A cyle of six sonnets.

Left: Gabriel Rossetti
 
Silent noon

  Songs of Travel
Stephenson Words by Robert Louis Stephenson.
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Sir Simon Rattle, Thomas Allen (baritone).
©HMV

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

  Linden Lea
VW on bike An original song. Written in 1901. Subtitled 'A Doset Folk Song'.
The extract here arranged for choir by William Barnes.
Choirmaster Brian Kay.
London Philharmonic, Conductor Richard Hickox
©CHANDOS

Left: VW on his bike. He often collected folk songs by touring public houses on his bicycle.
 
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  Four Poems by Fredegond Shove
  Music Group of London, Ian Partridge (tenor), Jennifer Partridge (piano).
©EMI
 
The Water Mill

  Ten Blake Songs
Blake The extract here is 'Infant Joy'.
For oboe and voice
Music Group of London, Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (oboe).
©EMI
 
Infant Joy
 
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