Songs of Travel

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & James Gilchrist & Philip Dukes & Anna Tilbrook

Songs of Travel is a song cycle by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, completed and first published in 1904. The cycle sets a sequence of poems for baritone and piano (later often performed with orchestral accompaniment) and is characterised by pastoral harmonies, modal inflections and lyrical vocal lines, marking a stage in Vaughan Williams's early mature output and engagement with the English song tradition.
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  1. 1.
    Songs of Travel: 1. The Vagabond
    3:07
  2. 2.
    Songs of Travel: 2. Let Beauty Awake
    1:56
  3. 3.
    Songs of Travel: 3. The Roadside Fire
    2:18
  4. 4.
    Songs of Travel: 4. Youth and Love
    3:29
  5. 5.
    Songs of Travel: 5. In Dreams
    2:32
  6. 6.
    Songs of Travel: 6. The Infinite Shining Heavens
    2:31
  7. 7.
    Songs of Travel: 7. Whither Must I Wander?
    4:12
  8. 8.
    Songs of Travel: 8. Bright Is the Ring of Words
    2:02
  9. 9.
    Songs of Travel: 9. I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
    2:20
  10. 10.
    Six Studies in English Folksong: I. Adagio
    1:35
  11. 11.
    Six Studies in English Folksong: II. Andante sostenuto
    1:18
  12. 12.
    Six Studies in English Folksong: III. Larghetto
    1:38
  13. 13.
    Six Studies in English Folksong: IV. Lento
    1:51
  14. 14.
    Six Studies in English Folksong: V. Andante tranquillo
    1:42
  15. 15.
    Six Studies in English Folksong: VI. Allegro vivace
    0:52
  16. 16.
    The Sky Above the Roof
    2:54
  17. 17.
    Orpheus with His Lute
    2:37
  18. 18.
    Silent Noon
    4:02
  19. 19.
    The Winter's Willow
    3:17
  20. 20.
    Romance
    6:43
  21. 21.
    Rhosymedre
    3:52
  22. 22.
    Four Hymns: I. Lord! Come Away!
    3:48
  23. 23.
    Four Hymns: II. Who Is This Fair One?
    4:01
  24. 24.
    Four Hymns: III. Come Love, Come Lord
    3:28
  25. 25.
    Four Hymns: IV. Evening Hymn
    3:10

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