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In Windsor Forest by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Booksplease Price: €18.15This cantata was adapted by the composer from music from his opera Sir John in Love. Comprising five choral songs, it features texts by Shakespeare (from 'Much Ado About Nothing') and his near... -
The Sons of Light by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Booksplease Price: €24.29for SATB and orchestra This three movement work was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in 1951 by a massed choir of 1150 school students under the direction of Sir Adrian Boult and accompanied by... -
Scott of the Antarctic by Ralph Vaughan Williams
RRP: €43.14Booksplease Price: €42.55The film 'Scott of the Antarctic' was produced by Ealing Studios and released in 1948. It recounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated second expedition to the Antarctic in 1910-1913. The film is... -
Serenade to Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Booksplease Price: €16.56for vocal soloists or SATB choir and orchestra or reduced orchestra Serenade to Music is sublime - one of the most stunningly beautiful musical creations of the 20th century. This choral meditation... -
Fantasia on Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Booksplease Price: €15.41This exquisite Fantasia on the timeless English folk song 'Greensleeves' was arranged for viola/cello and piano by Watson Forbes. It features sweeping expressive phrases reminiscent of the Fantasia... -
Flourish by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780195366051
Booksplease Price: €22.05This brief piece for wind band, composed in 1939 to open a pageant at the Royal Albert Hall, is simple but highly effective. It opens with a rousing brass fanfare, which gives way to a stirring,... -
Hodie (This Day) by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Booksplease Price: €27.58A cantata for soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists, SATB choir, and orchestra In this Christmas cantata Vaughan Williams uses and a wide range of musical styles to create a compelling, vivid, and... -
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams
RRP: €7.08Booksplease Price: €6.16for violin and mixed choir This innovative and imaginative choral arrangement of The Lark Ascending has the original solo violin part accompanied by mixed choir. It sensitively sets George... -
To the ploughboy by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193857940
Booksplease Price: €4.90for unison treble chorus with SA semi-chorus, and piano or orchestra or strings and piano This setting of the folk song To the Ploughboy is delightfully light-hearted and carefree, with its spirited... -
An Oxford Elegy by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193392052
Booksplease Price: €23.53for narrator, SATB chorus and chamber or string orchestra An Oxford Elegy combines adapted versions of The Scholar Gypsy and Thyrsis by Victorian poet Matthew Arnold. It conveys the story of an... -
Fantasia on Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193593077
Booksplease Price: €16.56This exquisite Fantasia on the timeless English folk song 'Greensleeves' was arranged for violin and piano by Michael Mullinar based on music from Vaughan Williams's opera Sir John in Love. It... -
Symphony No. 4 by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193519671
RRP: €118.11Booksplease Price: €112.30Described by Walton as the 'greatest symphony since Beethoven', Vaughan Williams's fourth symphony was composed in 1935 and is noted for its abrasively dissonant harmonic language, unlike much of the... -
A Vision of Aeroplanes by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193856783
Booksplease Price: €11.16for SATB and organ This motet is an compelling display of the more tempestuous side of Vaughan Williams's compositional style, with a spectacular organ part and turbulent vocal writing evoking the... -
John Barleycorn by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193860056
Booksplease Price: €5.68for SSA and piano This setting, which opens the Autumn section of the Vaughan Williams's cantata Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, uses a combination of pomp and wit to convey the gathering of the... -
Symphony No. 6 by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193379497
RRP: €35.40Booksplease Price: €35.05Vaughan Williams's 6th Symphony was composed immediately after the Second World War and its dramatic and at times violent musical language was long felt to be a comment on that conflict (though the... -
Symphony No. 8 by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193413306
RRP: €32.43Booksplease Price: €32.31Vaughan Williams wrote his Symphony No. 8 between 1953 and 1955, when he was in his eighties. It is his shortest symphony, and is considered by many to be his least serious. Aside from a few sombre... -
Symphony No. 9 by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193514126
RRP: €33.62Booksplease Price: €27.20Symphony No. 9 in E minor was the last symphony written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and was premiered by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent on 2nd April 1958. It is described... -
Symphony No. 5 by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193359420
Booksplease Price: €138.68Despite having been composed in the years 1938-43 when Europe was ravaged by war, this work radiates peace and serenity. It marks the peak of the lyrical modalism of works such as the Fantasia on a... -
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193519602
Booksplease Price: €23.53Vaughan Williams's famous romance for solo violin and orchestra is given new life in this beautiful arrangement. For the first time, violinists can perform the original solo line as part of a string... -
Flos campi by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193399433
Booksplease Price: €15.73for SATB wordless chorus, viola solo, and orchestra A suite for solo viola, wordless chorus (SATB), and small orchestra, Flos Campi is one of Vaughan Williams's most enigmatic pieces. Although the... -
The Wasps Overture by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780571541546
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.18Vaughan Williams' Overture to his 1909 incidental music for Aristophanes' comedy The Wasps buzzes noisily into life with stinging trills and scales. The musical swarm subsides to give way the... -
Flos campi by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193399426
Booksplease Price: €28.62for SATB wordless chorus, viola solo, and orchestra A suite for solo viola, wordless chorus (SATB), and small orchestra, Flos Campi is one of Vaughan Williams's most enigmatic pieces. Although the... -
Symphony No. 9 by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193514119
RRP: €145.78Booksplease Price: €139.52Symphony No. 9 in E minor was the last symphony written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and was premiered by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent on 2nd April 1958. It is described... -
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193519619
Booksplease Price: €26.26Vaughan Williams's famous romance for solo violin and orchestra is given new life in this beautiful arrangement, which features the original solo line as part of a string sextet. Perfect as a... -
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193519626
RRP: €43.14Booksplease Price: €42.20Vaughan Williams's famous romance for solo violin and orchestra is given new life in this beautiful arrangement. For the first time, violinists can perform the original solo line as part of a string... -
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193519633
RRP: €51.77Booksplease Price: €50.16Vaughan Williams's famous romance for solo violin and orchestra is given new life in this beautiful arrangement, which features the original solo line as part of a string sextet. Perfect as a... -
The Water Mill by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193544666
Booksplease Price: €4.90This well-known song by Vaughan Williams is arranged here for mixed voices, with additional lower voice parts by Alan Bullard. The pastoral imagery in the lyrics is beautifully brought to life by the... -
Symphony No. 4 by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193404748
Booksplease Price: €30.65Described by Walton as the 'greatest symphony since Beethoven', Vaughan Williams's fourth symphony was composed in 1935 and is noted for its abrasively dissonant harmonic language, unlike much of the... -
The Wasps Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780571542529
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.94Vaughan Williams composed his incidental music for Aristophanes’ comedy The Wasps in 1909. This new edition of the 25-minute orchestral suite incorporates extensive notes on the score. Highlights... -
Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams
RRP: €22.55Booksplease Price: €20.88for soprano and baritone soloists, SATB, and full orchestra or string orchestra with piano Drawing upon the Bible, sections from the Mass, and poems by Walt Whitman, this is a powerful musical... -
Fantasia on Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193853522
Booksplease Price: €18.93for piano duet This exquisite Fantasia on the timeless English folk song 'Greensleeves' was arranged by for piano duet by Hubert Foss based on music from Vaughan Williams's opera Sir John in Love... -
Symphony No. 5 by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193368248
Booksplease Price: €23.53Despite having been composed in the years 1938-43 when Europe was ravaged by war, this work radiates peace and serenity. It marks the peak of the lyrical modalism of works such as the Fantasia on a... -
Symphony No. 8 by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193413290
RRP: €130.84Booksplease Price: €125.62Vaughan Williams wrote Symphony No. 8 between 1953 and 1955 while in his eighties. It is his shortest symphony and considered by many to be his least serious. Aside from a few sombre moments, the... -
Fat Knight by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193519718
RRP: €43.14Booksplease Price: €42.55Originally the title for Vaughan Williams's opera Sir John in Love, Fat Knight was conceived as a seven-movement orchestral suite that drew upon the opera and had, as its central character,... -
Concerto for bass tuba and orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €24.31The Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra was composed in 1953-4 to mark the 50th anniversary of the formation of the LSO and was written for the orchestra's principal tuba player, Philip Catelinet... -
Serenade in A minor (1898) by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193379565
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €40.76This is the first publication of Vaughan Williams's earliest substantial work for orchestra, composed 1897-8 and premiered in April 1901. This attractive work already shows evidence of the composer's... -
Ralph Vaughan Williams and Adrian Boult by Nigel Simeone
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €51.09The first detailed study of the working relationship and productive friendship between Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Adrian Boult (1889-1983). From 1918 onwards, Boult became one of... -
The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams by Michael Kennedy 9780198163305
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €66.63This is the authoritative account of Vaughan Williams's musical life - the story of a great composer's career, and at the same time the story of music in England over half a century and more. Kennedy... -
Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193850682
Booksplease Price: €66.89for soprano and baritone soloists, SATB, and orchestra Drawing upon the Bible, sections from the Mass, and poems by Walt Whitman, this is a powerful musical evocation of the destruction and death... -
String Quartet in A minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193592742
Booksplease Price: €69.44This quartet was written upon the request of Jean Stewart, a friend of Vaughan Williams's and professional viola player, and in light of this the viola part is prominent throughout. The first three...