List of compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Vaughan Williams c. 1921, portrait by E. O. Hoppe Vaughan-williams-hoppe.jpg
Vaughan Williams c. 1921, portrait by E. O. Hoppé

This is a list of compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams .

Contents

Operas

Incidental music

Ballets

Orchestral

Concerti

Choral

Hymn tunes and carols

Vaughan Williams was the musical editor [17] of the English Hymnal of 1906, and the co-editor with Martin Shaw of Songs of Praise of 1925 and the Oxford Book of Carols of 1928, all in collaboration with Percy Dearmer. In addition to arranging many pre-existing hymn tunes and creating hymn tunes based on folk songs, he wrote several original hymn tunes:

Vocal

Chamber

Keyboard

Film scores

Scores for radio

Band

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References

  1. The Death of Tintagiles
  2. Recorded in completion by James Francis Brown. Some ideas were used again in A London Symphony - see notes by Stephen Connock with Albion Records CD ALBCD016
  3. Recorded in edition by James Francis Brown. Opening clarinet melody was used again in A Sea Symphony, in The England of Elizabeth and in Symphony No. 9 - see notes by Stephen Connock with Albion Records CD ALBCD016
  4. There were two other Norfolk Rhapsodies from the same period: Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2 has been recorded in a completion by Stephen Hogger (Chandos CD 10001), but the score of the third was lost. See Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 for details.
  5. Some of the music was used again in An Oxford Elegy. Another impression for orchestra from the same period, Boldre Wood, has not survived - see notes by Stephen Connock with Albion Records CD ALBCD016
  6. see "YouTube videoclip" under External Links
  7. Stainer & Bell Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Garden of Proserpine
  8. Discovery announcement on Classic FM Website
  9. World Premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'A Cambridge Mass' Archived 2011-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
  10. "Vaughan Williams, Fairfield Hall, Croydon, review". The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 9 May 2021.
  11. Research by Alan Tongue
  12. Notes by Lewis Foreman with Naxos CD 8.557798
  13. Notes by Michael Kennedy with EMI CDM 7 69820 2
  14. "Ralph Vaughan Williams". Robert Burns choral settings. 25 February 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  15. Publisher Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-5383-6
  16. Nine Carols for male voices. Oxford University Press. July 1993. ISBN   978-0-19-385940-1 . Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  17. see "1956 audio interview" under External Links
  18. Notes by Stephen Connock included with Albion Records CD ALBCD002
  19. Written just before he went to study with Ravel. Score dated 11 January 1908. Manuscript discovered in 2000, among the papers of Richard Austin, the son of the baritone & composer Frederic Austin. FP Gloucester Three Choirs Festival, August 2001. Two further Nocturnes orch. by Anthony Payne 2014. Sources: "Ralph Vaughan Williams: Catalogue of Works" (PDF). Faber & Faber Music. February 2020. p. 4. Retrieved 28 September 2021., and "The 39th Delius Society AGM and social weekend" (PDF). Delius Society Journal. 130: 31–33. Autumn 2001. Retrieved 28 September 2021. A different setting of the poem appears in Three Poems by Walt Whitman of 1925.
  20. Notes by Michael Kennedy with Hyperion CD CDA 67381/2
  21. "Letter from Jean Stewart to Ralph Vaughan Williams" The Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  22. The music was based on folksongs and the film describes the work of the National Trust - see notes by Michael Kennedy with Chandos CD CHAN 10007
  23. The composer wrote more music than was actually used in the finished film: see notes by Michael Kennedy to Chandos CD 10007
  24. This was a short Central Office of Information film. The music was based on folksongs and incorporates parts of Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus: see notes by Michael Kennedy with Chandos CD CHAN 10244
  25. Notes with Chandos CD CHAN 10368
  26. Kennedy, Michael: A Catalogue of the Works of Vaughan Williams, OUP, 1964; revised edition, OUP, 1996
  27. Jerzy Chwialkowski: The Da Capo Catalog of Classical Music Compositions, Da Capo Press, 1996