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Oxford May Music Festival - How Sweet the Wind Doth Blow
Part of the Oxford May Music Festival 2023
Add to my Calendar 30-04-2023 14:00 30-04-2023 16:00 36 Oxford May Music Festival - How Sweet the Wind Doth Blow A concert exploring the huge scope of the musical world of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). We hear his songs alongside from those in his circle at the Royal College of Music: Rebecca Clarke, Thomas Dunhill, Gustav Holst and John Ireland, from his teachers Parry and Stanford and his own setting of How Cold the Wind Doth Blow, one of most memorable and poignant folk song arrangements, beautifully scored for voice, violin and piano. We also hear the music of his pupils Ina Boyle, Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams and conclude with two gems that had lain forgotten for many years: Vaughan Williams’s Two Vocal Duets, sumptuous settings of Walt Whitman’s poetry for soprano, baritone, violin and piano. SJE Arts - St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford DD/MM/YYYYDetails
SJE Arts - St John the Evangelist Church
109A Iffley Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX4 1EH
England
Programme
Gustav Holst – Jesu sweet, now will I sing, Op.35 no.1
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Searching for Lambs (arr. for singing violist)
John Ireland – Spleen
Rebecca Clarke – Three Old English Songs (arr. for singing viola)
Ralph Vaughan Williams – How Cold the Wind Doth Blow
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Seeds of Love
Gustav Holst – The heart worships
Thomas Dunhill – The Cloths of Heaven
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Sky Above the Roof
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Dirge for Fidele
Ralph Vaughan Williams – It was a Lover and his Lass
Rebecca Clarke – A Dream
Williams Grace – Slow, Slow , Fresh Fount
Charles Villiers Stanford – La bella dame sans merci
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lawyer
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – The Sound of Hidden Music
Elizabeth Machonchy – A Hymn to God the Father
Boyle Ina – The Last Invocation
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Last Invocation
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Love Song of Birds
Performers
Ailish Tynan – soprano
Nicky Spence – tenor
Jack Liebeck – violin
Will Vann – piano / organ
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Programme Note
A concert exploring the huge scope of the musical world of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). We hear his songs alongside from those in his circle at the Royal College of Music: Rebecca Clarke, Thomas Dunhill, Gustav Holst and John Ireland, from his teachers Parry and Stanford and his own setting of How Cold the Wind Doth Blow, one of most memorable and poignant folk song arrangements, beautifully scored for voice, violin and piano. We also hear the music of his pupils Ina Boyle, Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams and conclude with two gems that had lain forgotten for many years: Vaughan Williams’s Two Vocal Duets, sumptuous settings of Walt Whitman’s poetry for soprano, baritone, violin and piano.
