Vaughan Williams, Ralph – Collected Songs Volume 1 Medium voice & piano

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Collected Songs Volume 1

Medium voice & piano

This three volume series comprises the bulk of the solo songs which Vaughan Williams published with Oxford University Press. The songs span his long life, ranging from the early ‘How can the Tree but Wither?’ (composed around 1896) to the Four Last Songs (from 1954-8, his final years). Many of the composer’s most popular songs are included, notably ‘Greensleeves’, ‘The Woodcutter’s Song’ (Seven Songs from ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’, no. 6), ‘The New Ghost’, and ‘The Water Mill’ (Four Poems by Fredegond Shove, nos. 3 and 4).

Greensleeves

Three songs from Shakespeare:

Take, O Take

When Icicles Hang by the Wall

Orpheus with his Lute

Three poems by Walt Whitman:

Nocturne

A Clear Midnight

Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

Four Last Songs:

Procris

Tired

Hands, Eyes, and Heart

Menelaus