On Wenlock Edge

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & James Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook & Fitzwilliam String Quartet

On Wenlock Edge is a song cycle by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, composed in 1909 and first published in 1910. It sets poems by A. E. Housman for tenor with piano and string quartet, combining modal, folk-influenced melodies and English pastoral harmonies within chamber textures and representing an early exploration by Vaughan Williams of intimate, text-centred vocal writing in his career.
First released: July 2007

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    On Wenlock Edge: On Wenlock Edge
    3:33
  2. 2.
    On Wenlock Edge: From Far, From Eve and Morning
    2:02
  3. 3.
    On Wenlock Edge: Is My Team Ploughing
    3:48
  4. 4.
    On Wenlock Edge: Oh, When I Was in Love With You
    0:41
  5. 5.
    On Wenlock Edge: Bredon Hill
    7:33
  6. 6.
    On Wenlock Edge: Clun
    3:27
  7. 7.
    The Curlew
    22:19
  8. 8.
    Elegiac Sonnet
    7:47
  9. 9.
    Ludlow & Teme: When Smoke Stood up From Ludlow
    3:04
  10. 10.
    Ludlow & Teme: Far in a Western Brookland
    4:11
  11. 11.
    Ludlow & Teme: 'Tis time I think
    1:11
  12. 12.
    Ludlow & Teme: Ludlow Fair
    2:17
  13. 13.
    Ludlow & Teme: On the Idle Hill of Summer
    2:58
  14. 14.
    Ludlow & Teme: When I Was One and Twenty
    1:26
  15. 15.
    Ludlow & Teme: The Lent Lily
    3:10

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