On Wenlock Edge etc

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Ian Bostridge & Sarah Chang & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Bernard Haitink

On Wenlock Edge is a song cycle by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, composed in 1909. Scored for tenor, piano and string quartet, it sets English poetry in a style that combines modal harmonies, folk-influenced melodies and late-Romantic textures, and it represents an early instance of Vaughan Williams's engagement with folk-inflected art song within the development of early 20th-century British music.

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  1. 1.
    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
    16:24
  2. 2.
    Norfolk Rhapsody No.1
    11:35
  3. 3.
    The Lark Ascending
    13:37
  4. 4.
    In the Fen Country
    13:57
  5. 5.
    On Wenlock Edge: On Wenlock Edge
    3:51
  6. 6.
    On Wenlock Edge: From far, from eve and morning
    2:03
  7. 7.
    On Wenlock Edge: Is my team ploughing
    3:47
  8. 8.
    On Wenlock Edge: Oh, when I was in love with you
    0:44
  9. 9.
    On Wenlock Edge: Bredon Hill
    7:38
  10. 10.
    On Wenlock Edge: Clun
    3:28

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