In 1908 Vaughan Williams composed the Nocturnes for Baritone and Orchestra – each a setting of his favourite poet Walt Whitman – though these works were believed to be unfinished. The manuscript of an earlier Nocturne a fully orchestrated setting of Whispers of Heavenly Death came to light in 2000. Now Faber Music is proud to announce the publication of the Three Nocturnes which se…

Three Elizabethan Partsongs: Sweet Day

These wonderful songs are settings of texts from Shakespeare's The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The three pieces were originally composed for The British Federation of Music Festivals National Competitive Festival June 1951. Scored for SSATB a cappella though this edition also includes a Piano reduction for rehearsal purposes.

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Boldly reimagined and completed by Martin Yates, The Future, a substantial non finito draft of a major choral setting of words by Matthew Arnold, dates from 1908, immediately after Toward the Unknown Region, and in the crucial year of Vaughan Williams’s three-month tutelage with Ravel in Paris. Urgent ecological concerns – strikingly relevant today no less than in the V…

Ralph Vaughan Williams' Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2 for large Orchestra.Vaughan Williams originally wrote three Norfolk Rhapsodies with the intention of turning them into a three-movement Norfolk Symphony. This the second rhapsody is a telescoped slow movement and scherzo which has been completed and edited by Stephen Hogger. The first has long been in the repertoire but numbers two and three have …

A third volume of collected Ralph Vaughan Williams songs for Medium voice and Piano accompaniment.

This is the first in a set of three wonderful volumes which comprise the bulk of solo songs which Vaughan Williams published with Oxford University Press. Arranged for Medium Voice and Piano Accompaniment.

Recently discovered among the composer's papers these three short pieces extend the idioms of the major works into the intimate world of the keyboard. The first piece is a study in sarabande rhythm; the second Molto lento a frosty evocation of Winter. A rousing Pezzo ostinato - a favourite form completes the collection. Performers of intermediate grade and beyond will relish the chance to play…

Number two of Three Elizabethan Part-Songs arranged for SSA by W.R. Pasfield.

SATB unaccompaniedNo. 2 of Three Elizabethan Part Songs. Text from Shakespeare's Othello.