Songs of Travel / On Wenlock Edge

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Sir Thomas Allen & Robert Tear & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Simon Rattle

Songs of Travel and On Wenlock Edge are song cycles by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, composed in 1904 and 1909 respectively. Both set English poetry for solo voice with piano and, for On Wenlock Edge, a string quartet, and they show Vaughan Williams's shift to folk-influenced melody, use of modal harmony, incorporation of traditional textures and a more direct musical language that shaped his later vocal and orchestral work.

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  1. 1.
    On Wenlock Edge꞉ On Wenlock Edge
    3:49
  2. 2.
    On Wenlock Edge꞉ From Far, From Eve And Morning
    2:00
  3. 3.
    On Wenlock Edge꞉ Is My Team Ploughing?
    3:35
  4. 4.
    On Wenlock Edge꞉ Oh, When I Was In Love With You
    0:45
  5. 5.
    On Wenlock Edge꞉ Bredon Hill (In Summertime On Bredon)
    7:08
  6. 6.
    On Wenlock Edge꞉ Clun
    3:07
  7. 7.
    Song Of Travel꞉ The Vagabond
    3:02
  8. 8.
    Song Of Travel꞉ Let Beauty Awake
    1:41
  9. 9.
    Song Of Travel꞉ The Roadside Fire
    2:20
  10. 10.
    Song Of Travel꞉ Youth And Love
    3:17
  11. 11.
    Song Of Travel꞉ In Dreams
    2:36
  12. 12.
    Song Of Travel꞉ The Infinite Shining Heavens
    2:06
  13. 13.
    Song Of Travel꞉ Whither Must I Wander?
    3:49
  14. 14.
    Song Of Travel꞉ Bright Is The Ring Of Words
    1:54
  15. 15.
    Song Of Travel꞉ I Have Trod The Upward And The Downward Slope
    2:04

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