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The Five Mystical Songs are a musical composition by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), written between 1906 and 1911. [1] The work sets four poems ("Easter" divided into two parts) by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593–1633), from his 1633 collection The Temple: Sacred Poems. While ...
Vaughan Williams chose verses 1,2,5–8 (in the King James Version numbering) from Psalm 47, [2] a psalm calling to exalt God as the King of "all the earth" with hands, voices and instruments. [2] The Hebrew original mentions the shofar, which is given as trumpet in English. [7] He set the text in one movement in B-flat major, marked Allegro.
Old King Cole (1923) for orchestra and optional chorus; On Christmas Night (1926): masque adapted from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; Job: A Masque for Dancing (1930) . The Voice out of the Whirlwind, Motet for mixed choir and organ or orchestra; adapted from "Galliard of the Sons of the Morning" from Job
Vaughan Williams in 1955. The Symphony No. 9 in E minor was the last symphony written by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.He composed it during 1956 and 1957, and it was given its premiere performance in London by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent on 2 April 1958, in the composer's eighty-sixth year.
Following the composition of Five Mystical Songs in 1911, Vaughan Williams began to compose a smaller scale piece, which was completed in 1914. However, World War I delayed the presentation of the song cycle until 1920.
The single-movement work of roughly twelve minutes consists of the English folk carols "The truth sent from above", "Come all you worthy gentlemen" and the Sussex Carol ("On Christmas night all Christians sing"), all folk songs collected in southern England by Vaughan Williams and his friend Cecil Sharp a few years earlier. [2]
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus is a work for harp and string orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The composition is based on the folk tune " Dives and Lazarus ", one of the folk songs quoted in Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite .
Songs of Travel is a song cycle of nine songs originally written for baritone voice composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with poems drawn from the Robert Louis Stevenson collection Songs of Travel and Other Verses. A complete performance of the entire cycle lasts between 20 and 24 minutes. They were originally written for voice and piano.