Job: A Masque for Dancing

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Vernon Handley

Job: A Masque for Dancing is a ballet score by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, composed in 1930 and first performed in 1931. The music combines Vaughan Williams's pastoral, folk-inflected orchestral language with neoclassical dance forms and vivid orchestration to depict programmatic scenes inspired by William Blake, representing a development in his ballet and orchestral writing toward more dramatic, pictorial textures.

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene I. Introduction, Pastoral Dance, Satan's Appeal to God, Saraband of the Sons of God
    10:41
  2. 2.
    Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene II. Satan's Dance of Triumph
    3:33
  3. 3.
    Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene III. Minuet of the Sons of Job and their Wives / Scene IV: Job's Dream / Scene V: Dance of the Three Messengers
    14:31
  4. 4.
    Job, A Masque for Dancing: Scene VI. Dance of Job's Comforters / Scene VII: Elihu's Dance of Youth / Scene VIII: Galliard of the Sons of the Morning / Scene IX: Epilogue
    19:36

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