Folk Songs of the Four Seasons Suite / Bucolic Suite / Dark Pastoral for Cello & Orchestra / Serenade in A Minor (1898)

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Guy Johnson & Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Martin Yates

This release is a collection of early orchestral and chamber works by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, dated 1898. The music is rooted in late Romantic and English folk-influenced idioms, with modal melodies and pastoral string textures, and it was written at the start of Vaughan Williams's career as he developed the voice he used in later works.

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  1. 1.
    Folk Songs of the Four Seasons: I. To the Ploughboy / May Song
    3:22
  2. 2.
    Folk Songs of the Four Seasons: II. To the Green Meadow / An Acre of Land
    1:58
  3. 3.
    Folk Songs of the Four Seasons: III. The Spring of Thyme / Lark in The Morning
    4:07
  4. 4.
    Folk Songs of the Four Seasons: IV. The Cuckoo
    1:44
  5. 5.
    Folk Songs of the Four Seasons: V. Wassail Song / Children's Christmas Song
    2:58
  6. 6.
    Bucolic Suite: I. Allegro
    3:47
  7. 7.
    Bucolic Suite: II. Andante
    6:04
  8. 8.
    Bucolic Suite: III. Intermezzo (Allegretto)
    3:53
  9. 9.
    Bucolic Suite: IV. Finale (Allegro)
    5:49
  10. 10.
    Dark Pastoral for Cello and Orchestra
    11:01
  11. 11.
    Serenade in A minor: I. Prelude
    4:21
  12. 12.
    Serenade in A minor: II. Scherzo
    3:48
  13. 13.
    Serenade in A minor: III. Intermezzo & Trio
    5:21
  14. 14.
    Serenade in A minor: IV. Romance
    8:57
  15. 15.
    Serenade in A minor: V. Finale
    3:59

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