Piano arrangement by Michael Mullinar.
A capricious, lyrical, and nostalgic work, it is often considered to be Vaughan Williams’s most successful work in this form.
The first movement is pastoral in feeling.
The second movement begins with a minuet, light and staccato in nature with a middle section featuring a musette’s characteristic long-held drone played by the oboe with the melody in the strings.
The third movement is a scherzo and two trios.
