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Composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Artist(s):
Clare College Cambridge Choir
Dmitri Ensemble

Conductor:
David Willcocks

Background: Both the Folk Songs of the Four Seasons and this arrangement of In Windsor Forest are world premiere recordings. The Folk Songs of the Four Seasons is a substantial work by Vaughan Williams, over 40 minutes long, for women’s chorus and orchestra. It is the most significant of his works never to have been recorded in any format.

The Folk Songs of the Four Seasons was commissioned by the Women’s Institute and first performed in 1950. The work has a Prologue and four sections: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

The coupling is the rare arrangement for women’s voices, by Guthrie Foote and Vaughan Williams, of the Cantata In Windsor Forest based on choruses from the opera Sir John in Love.

CATALOGUE NR: ALBCD010
RECORD LABEL: Albion Records
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.75
RELEASE DATE: 27-Jul-2009

COMPOSER: Ralph Vaughan Williams
TITLE: Folk Songs of the Four Seasons
TRACKS: Folk Songs of the Four Seasons : Prologue. Spring : Early in the Spring - For three voices unaccompanied / The Lark in the Morning - For two voices / May Song - Full chorus with semi-chorus. Summer : Summer is a-coming in and The Cuckoo - Full chorus / The Sprig of Thyme - Full chorus / The Sheep Shearing - For two voices unaccompanied / The Green Meadow - Unison all voices. Autumn : John Barleycorn - Full chorus with semi-chorus / The Unquiet Grave - For three voices unaccompanied / An Acre of Land - Unison all voices. Winter : Children's Christmas Song - In two-part harmony / Wassail Song - Unison with descant / In Bethlehem City - For three voices unaccompanied / God Bless the Master - Unison with descant. In Windsor Forest (world premiere of this arrangement for women's voices by Guthrie Foote) : The Conspiracy - Sigh no more ladies / Falstaff and the Fairies - Round about in a fair ring-a / Wedding Chorus - See the Chariot at hand / Epilogue - Whether men do laugh or weep.
CONDUCTOR: David Willcocks
ARTISTS: Clare College Cambridge Choir   Dmitri Ensemble    

- Dec-2009 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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