Ralph Vaughan Williams
4 Last Songs
for SATB and piano or orchestra
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
4 Last Songs
for SATB and piano or orchestra
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB) and Piano
- Optional Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB) and Orchestra
- Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Editor Jonathan Wikeley
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Piano Score
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Order no. 9780193564169
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Description:
Jonathan Wikeley's choral arrangement of Vaughan Williams's Four Last Songs offers a new way to engage with these beautiful late works. The texts are by Ursula Vaughan Williams, and the set begins and ends with two poems that were inspired by Greek mythology. The opening song, 'Procris', and the closing song, 'Menelaus', have flowing piano accompaniments that remain unchanged from the original solo voice versions. The two songs in the middle, 'Tired' and 'Hands, Eyes, and Heart', are unaccompanied in this arrangement, with a double-choir texture that incorporates the original chordal piano line in a way that is consistent with Vaughan Williams's own double-choir writing.
The songs are available in their original form, for solo voice and piano accompaniment, in the first volume of Collected Songs by Vaughan Williams.
The songs are available in their original form, for solo voice and piano accompaniment, in the first volume of Collected Songs by Vaughan Williams.