Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade Ralph Vaughan Williams - Various Artists

• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958): Flourish for 3 Trumpets:
• 1 Williams: Flourish for 3 Trumpets 00:35
• Serenade to Music (Arr. D. Briggs for Organ):
• 2 Williams: Serenade to Music (Arr. D. Briggs for Organ) 14:49
• She's Like the Swallow:
• 3 Williams: She's Like the Swallow 02:26
• The Winter’s Gone and Past:
• 4 Williams: The Winter’s Gone and Past 02:46
• I Will Give My Love an Apple:
• 5 Williams: I Will Give My Love an Apple 01:28
• 4 Cambridge Flourishes for 4 Trumpets:
• 6 Williams: 4 Cambridge Flourishes for 4 Trumpets: Flourish Nos. 1 & 2 00:59
• For All the Saints Who from Their Labours Rest:
• 7 Williams: For All the Saints Who from Their Labours Rest 07:08
• 4 Cambridge Flourishes for 4 Trumpets:
• 8 Williams: 4 Cambridge Flourishes for 4 Trumpets: Flourishes Nos. 3 & 4 00:58
• Aristophanic Suite from "The Wasps":
• 9 Williams: Aristophanic Suite from "The Wasps": III. March-Past of the Kitchen Utensils (Arr. D. Briggs for Organ) 04:04
• Suite for Four Hands on One Pianoforte:
• 10 Williams: Suite for Four Hands on One Pianoforte: I. Prelude 04:13
• 11 Williams: Suite for Four Hands on One Pianoforte: II. Minuet (First Version) 02:03
• 12 Williams: Suite for Four Hands on One Pianoforte: III. Sarabande 01:58
• 13 Williams: Suite for Four Hands on One Pianoforte: IV. Gigue 01:05
• Household Music, 3 Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes:
• 14 Williams: Household Music, 3 Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes: Var. 3, Aberystwyth (Arr. H. Byard for Organ) 06:10
• Pezzo Ostinato (Arr. L. Rhodes for Organ):
• 15 Williams: Pezzo Ostinato (Arr. L. Rhodes for Organ) 03:25
• 5 Mystical Songs:
• 16 Williams: 5 Mystical Songs: No. 4, The Call (Arr. H. Byard for Organ) 02:09
• 2 Herefordshire Carols (Arr. P. Hindmarsh for Brass Band):
• 17 Williams: 2 Herefordshire Carols (Arr. P. Hindmarsh for Brass Band) 04:27
• Traditional:
• 18 Traditional: Dives and Lazarus (Arr. R.V. Williams for Choir) 03:58
• Ralph Vaughan Williams: Randolph:
• 19 Williams: Randolph 02:05
• Total Runtime 01:06:46

Info for Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade

We celebrate the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams, on Wednesday 12 October 2022, with this unique compilation album.

The album takes its name from Serenade to Music, transcribed here for organ by David Briggs and recorded on the Willis organ of Truro Cathedral. David also gives us quite an astonishing transformation of the March Past of the Kitchen Utensils from The Wasps.

We hear premiere recordings of a Flourish for Three Trumpets and Four 'Cambridge' Flourishes for Four Trumpets, played by members of Tredegar Town Band, and we hear the whole band later in an arrangement of Two Carols made by Paul Hindmarsh using Vaughan Williams's harmonies. There are three folk songs from Albion's Complete Folk Songs series, but these are new recordings for this album, each of the three soloists singing a folk song previously recorded by one of the others.

Lynn Arnold and Charles Matthews reprise the early Suite for Four Hands on One Pianoforte, with the original version of the Minuet. Charles Matthews goes on to play organ arrangements of three works by Vaughan Williams. We conclude with a hymn tune that Vaughan Williams named after his cousin and best man, Ralph Wedgwood, known to his friends as Randolph, set to words that Vaughan Williams salvaged from a Moody and Sankey hymn: God be with you till we meet again.

Serenade is a mixed bag of an album, and is both a celebration of a great anniversary and a further contribution to Albion's rich harvest of lesser-known works and new (and old) arrangements.

David Briggs, organ
Mary Bevan, soprano
Nicky Spence, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone
Lynn Arnold, piano
Charles Matthews, harpsichord, organ
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann, conductor
Tredegar Town Band
Ian Porthouse, conductor

No biography found.

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