performing edition of complete incidental music and settings of text from the play by Aristophanes for vocal soloists, male chorus and orchestra, originally used for stage production and now, with nar...
This Festival Piece is a grand and stately choral work, with music by Vaughan Williams, based on the melody of the traditional English Hymnal Sine Nomine. Adapted and arranged for TTBB Choir and Piano...
Chanticleer is name given to a crowing cockerel, and the liveliness of this movement reflects the title. This piece is suitable for Advent and Christmas programmes. Offprinted from the Advent cantata...
Cecilia, Busy Like a Bee is a reflective setting of a text adapted from the Divine Office for St Cecilia's Day. The influence of plainchant is particularly apparent in the soprano solo, and McDowall i...
TTBB and piano, or orchestra, or piano and strings, adapted from the opera Sir John in Love. Orchestral material available on hire.
One of the cornerstones of the concert band repertoire, this three movement suite (March: Seventeen come Sunday; Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy; March: Folk Songs from Somerset) was composed in 1923 and rec...
Vaughan Williams arrived in Paris in 12th December 1907 so that he could have lessons with Maurice Ravel. This is the first of his works to demonstrate the effects of these lessons which, as he wrote...
A heartfelt and subtly beautiful tribute to the dead of the First World War, Vaughan Williams' Third Symphony is amongst his most powerful works. Misunderstood at its premiere in 1922, the haunting 35...
Vaughan 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 mo...
From the collection 'Folk Songs from Sussex' (1912). Collected by W. Percy Merrick. For Solo Voice, with Piano accompaniment and optional Violin obligato.