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Williams: The Collectors Edition - The Masterpieces, the Greatest Artists by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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• Artist:Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Media:Audio CD
• Label: EMI
• Released: 28 April 2008
• Barcode: 5099920663629
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• • Behold the sea itself (chorus)
  • Today a rude brief recitative (baritone & chorus)
  • Flaunt out, O sea, your separate flags of nations (soprano & chorus)
  • Token of all brave captains (chorus)
  • A pennant universal (baritone, soprano & chorus)
  • On the beach, at night, alone (baritone & semi-chorus)
  • A vast similitude interlocks all (baritone & chorus)
  • III. Scherzo: The Waves (Allegro brillante)
  • O vast Rondure, swimming in Space (chorus)
  • Down from the gardens of Asia descending (chorus)
  • O we can wait no longer (baritone & soprano)
  • O thou transcendent (soprano, baritone & chorus)
  • Greater than stars or suns (chorus, soprano & baritone)
  • Sail forth (chorus, soprano & baritone)
  • O my brave Soul (soprano, baritone & chorus)
  • I. Lento - Allegro risoluto (molto pesante)
  • II. Lento
  • III. Scherzo (Nocturne): Allegro vivace
  • IV. Andante con moto - Maestoso alla marcia (quasi lento) - Allegro - Maestoso alla marcia (alla I) - Epilogue (Andante sostenuto)
  • I. Fantasia (Variazioni senza tema)
  • II. Scherzo alla marcia (per stromenti a fiato) (Allegro alla marcia)
  • III. Cavatina (per stromenti ad arco) (Lento espressivo)
  • IV. Toccata (Moderato maestoso)
  • I. Molto moderato
  • II. Lento moderato
  • III. Moderato pesante
  • IV. Lento [with soprano solo]
  • I. Allegro
  • II. Andante moderato
  • III. Scherzo (Allegro molto) -
  • IV. Finale (Allegro molto) con epilogo fugato (Con anima)
  • I. Rondo pastorale (Allegro moderato)
  • II. Minuet and Musette (Allegro moderato)
  • III. Finale: Scherzo (Presto - Lento - Presto)
  • I. Preludio (Moderato - Allegro - Tempo I)
  • II. Scherzo (Presto misterioso)
  • III. Romanza (Lento)
  • IV. Passacaglia (Moderato - Allegro - Tempo primo - Tempo del Preludio)
  • I. Allegro -
  • II. Moderato -
  • III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) -
  • IV. Epilogue (Moderato)
  • I. Moderato maestoso
  • II. Andante sostenuto
  • III. Scherzo (Allegro pesante)
  • IV. Andante tranquillo
  • Serenade to Music (choral version)
  • I. Prelude (Andante tranquillo) -
  • II. Scherzo ostinato (Presto)
  • III. Intermezzo (Homage to Henry Hall) (Andante con moto)
  • IV. Fantasia (Allegro)
  • I. Prelude (Andante maestoso)
  • II. Scherzo (Moderato)
  • III. Landscape (Lento)
  • IV. Intermezzo (Andante sostenuto)
  • V. Epilogue (Alla marcia moderato, non troppo allegro)
  • I. Overture
  • II. Entr'acte
  • III. March Past of the Kitchen Utensils
  • IV. Entr'acte
  • V. Ballet and Final Tableau
  • Prelude
  • Fugue
  • I. Toccata (Allegro moderato) -
  • II. Romanza (Lento) -
  • III. Fuga cromatica (Allegro) con
  • finale alla tedesca
  • I. Toccata (Allegro moderato) -
  • II. Romanza (Lento) -
  • III. Fuga cromatica (Allegro) con
  • finale alla tedesca
  • Introduction -
  • Saraband of the Sons of God
  • Scene II: Satan's Dance of Triumph
  • Scene III: Minuet of the Sons of Job and Their Wives
  • Scene IV: Job's Dream -
  • Scene V: Dance of the Three Messengers
  • Scene VI: Dance of Job's Comforters -
  • Elihu's Dance of Youth and Beauty -
  • Pavane of the Sons of the Morning
  • Galliard of the Sons of the Morning -
  • Altar Dance -
  • Scene IX: Epilogue
  • Serenade to Music (original version with 16 soloists)
  • I. March (Seventeen Come Sunday)
  • II. Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy)
  • III. March (Folk Songs from Somerset)
  • Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
  • Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
  • In the Fen Country
  • The Lark Ascending
  • Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
  • Sea Songs - March (military band)
  • I. March (Seventeen Come Sunday)
  • II. Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy)
  • III. March (Folk Songs from Somerset)
  • Dawn Patrol (from the film Coastal Command)
  • I. Intrada (Largo)
  • II. Burlesca ostinata (Allegro moderato)
  • III. Sarabande (Lento)
  • IV. Scherzo (Allegro: tempo di valse)
  • V. March (A la marcia) and Reprise
  • Romance in D flat for harmonica with strings and pianoforte
  • I. Prelude (Allegro moderato)
  • II. Romanza (Andante sostenuto)
  • III. Finale: Rondo alla tedesca (Allegro)
  • Serenade to Music (orchestral version)
  • The Poisoned Kiss - Overture
  • (Allegro moderato)
  • Pipe Dance
  • Bowl Dance
  • Morris Jig: 'Go and 'list for a sailor'
  • Folk Song: 'A Bold Young Farmer'
  • Folk Tune: 'The Jolly Thresherman'
  • Solo Jig
  • Easter
  • I got me flowers
  • Love bade me welcome
  • The Call [baritone only]
  • Antiphon [chorus only]
  • Prelude on an Old Carol Tune
  • The Running Set
  • Prelude: 49th Parallel
  • Sea Songs - March (sym. orch.)
  • Theme: Andante maestoso
  • Variation I: Poco tranquillo
  • Variation II: Tranquillo cantabile
  • Variation III: Allegro
  • Variation IV: Canon (Allegro)
  • Variation V: Moderato sostenuto
  • Variation VI: Tempo di valse
  • Variation VII: Arabesque (Andante sostenuto)
  • Variation VIII: Alla polacca
  • Variation IX: Adagio
  • Variation X: Fugato (Allegro moderato e risoluto)
  • Variation XI: Chorale
  • 1. Eventide (melody by W. H. Monk)
  • 2. Dominus regit me (melody by J. B. Dykes)
  • I. Allegro pesante
  • II. Adagio
  • III. Presto
  • 2. Rhosymedre (melody by J. D. Edwards, 1805-1885)
  • 3. Hyfrydol (melody by R. H. Prichard, 1811-1887)
  • I. Allegro moderato
  • II. Minuet and Trio (Tempo di minuetto)
  • III. Romance (Andante sostenuto)
  • IV. Finale: Rondo capriccioso (Allegro molto - Pochettino più mosso)
  • I. Fantasia (Allegro giusto)
  • II. Scherzo (Allegro furioso, ma non troppo)
  • III. Tema con variazioni
  • I. Prelude (Lento ma non troppo)
  • II. Scherzo (Prestissimo)
  • III. Alla sarabanda (Allegro moderato)
  • IV. Burlesca (Allegro moderato)
  • 1. Lovely on the Water (Adagio)
  • 2. Spurn Point (Andante sostenuto)
  • 3. Van Dieman's Land (Larghetto)
  • 4. She borrowed some of her mother's gold (Lento)
  • 5. The Lady and the Dragoon (Andante tranquillo)
  • 6. As I walked over London Bridge (Allegro vivace)
  • I. Prelude (Allegro appassionato)
  • II. Romance (Largo)
  • III. Scherzo (Allegro)
  • IV. Epilogue: Greetings from Joan to Jean (Andante sostenuto)
  • Toward the Unknown Region - A song for chorus and orchestra
  • I. 'Agnus Dei' (Lento) -
  • II. 'Beat! beat! drums!' (Allegro moderato) -
  • III. Reconciliation (Andantino) -
  • IV. Dirge for Two Veterans (Moderato alla marcia) -
  • V. 'The Angel of Death has been abroad' (L'istesso tempo) -
  • VI. 'O man greatly beloved'
  • Fantasia (quasi variazione) on the Old 104th
  • Magnificat
  • (Lento)
  • Go, for they call you, Shepherd
  • Here will I sit and wait
  • Screen'd is this nook
  • That sweet city
  • Come, let me read
  • Or in my boat I lie
  • And once, in winter
  • But what - I dream!
  • No, no, thou hast not felt
  • Runs it not here
  • Needs must I, with heavy heart
  • Soon will the high Midsummer pomps
  • He hearkens not!
  • Never more
  • Yes, thou art gone!
  • Despair I will not
  • Why faintest thou?
  • Whitsunday Hymn (No. 3 of Three Choral Hymns)
  • 1. Sicut Lilium inter spinas (Lento) -
  • 2. Jam enim hiems transiit (Andante con moto) -
  • 3. Quaesivi quem diligit anima mea (Lento - Allegro moderato) -
  • 4. En lectulum Salomonis (Moderato alla marcia) -
  • 5. Revertere, revertere Sulamitis! (Andante quasi lento) -
  • 6. Pone me ut signaculum (Moderato tranquillo)
  • I was in the spirit (Lento)
  • And I saw Heaven opened (Allegro)
  • And I saw an angel standing in the sun (Meno mosso)
  • Babylon the great is fallen (Lento)
  • Rejoice over her O Heavens (Allegro moderato)
  • And I saw a new heaven (Adagio)
  • Therefore are they before the throne of God (Poco meno largo)
  • And I saw a pure river
  • Holy, Holy, Holy (Andante sostenuto)
  • Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory (Poco animato)
  • 1. Ballad: The Tunning of Elinor Rumming
  • 2. Intermezzo: My Pretty Bess
  • 3. Burlesca: Epitaph on John Jayberd of Diss
  • 4. Romanza: Jane Scroop (Her Lament for Philip Sparrow)
  • 5. Scherzo: Jolly Rutterkin
  • Benedicite
  • Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'
  • This is the truth sent from above -
  • Come all you worthy gentlemen -
  • On Christmas night all Christians sing -
  • God bless the ruler of this house
  • I. Prologue: Nowell! Nowell!
  • II. Narration: Now the birth of Jesus Christ -
  • III. Song: It was the winter wild
  • IV. Narration: And it came to pass in those days
  • V. Choral: The blessed son of God
  • VI. Narration: And there were in the same country
  • VII. Song: The Oxen (Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock)
  • VIII. Narration: And the shepherds returned
  • IX. Pastoral: The shepherds sing
  • X. Narration: But Mary kept all these things
  • XI. Lullaby: Sweet was the song the Virgin sang
  • XII. Hymn: Bright portals of the sky
  • XIII. Narration: Now when Jesus was born
  • XIV. The March of the Three Kings: From kingdoms of wisdom -
  • XV. Choral: No sad thought his soul affright
  • XVI. Epilogue: In the beginning was the Word
  • This is the truth sent from above
  • Come all you worthy gentlemen
  • On Christmas night all Christians sing
  • God bless the ruler of this house
  • Yorkshire Wassail Song (We've been awhile a-wandering)
  • i. The Conspiracy (Shakespeare)
  • II. Drinking Song (John Still or William Stevenson)
  • III. Falstaff and the Fairies (Shakespeare, Ravenscroft and Lyly)
  • IV. Wedding Chorus (Ben Johnson)
  • V. Epilogue (attrib. Campion)
  • 1. The Vagabond
  • 2. Let beauty awake
  • 3. The Roadside Fire
  • 4. Youth and Love
  • 5. In Dreams
  • 6. The infinite shining heavens
  • 7. Whither must I wander
  • 8. Bright is the ring of words
  • 9. I have trod the upward and the downward slope
  • I. On Wenlock Edge
  • II. From far, from eve and morning
  • III. Is my team ploughing?
  • IV. Oh, when I was in love with you
  • V. Bredon Hill
  • VI. Clun
  • O, clap your hands
  • Kyrie
  • Gloria
  • Credo
  • Sanctus - Osanna I - Benedictus - Osanna II
  • Agnus Dei
  • All people that on earth do dwell (Old Hundredth)
  • O taste and see
  • Te Deum in G
  • For all the saints (Sine nomine)
  • 1. Bryn Calfaria (melody by W. Owen, 1814-1893)
  • 2. Rhosymedre (melody by J. D. Edwards, 1805-1885)
  • 3. Hyfrydol (melody by R. H. Prichard, 1811-1887)
  • The Truth from Above
  • O little town of Bethlehem (v.3 arr. Ledger)
  • Joseph and Mary
  • And all in the morning
  • Alleluya, sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol) [last verse omitted]
  • Come down, O Love divine (Down Ampney)
  • All people that on earth do dwell (The Old Hundredth)
  • Lord! Come away (J. Taylor)
  • Who is this fair one? (I. Watts)
  • Come Love, come Lord (R. Crashaw)
  • Evening Hymn (translated R. Bridges)
  • Your eyën two
  • So hath your beauty
  • Since I from love
  • 3. The New Ghost
  • 4. The Water Mill
  • 1. Infant Joy
  • 2. A Poison Tree
  • 3. The Piper
  • 4. London [oboe tacet]
  • 5. The Lamb
  • 6. The Shepherd [oboe tacet]
  • 7. Ah, Sunflower!
  • 8.Cruelty has a human heart
  • 9. The Divine Image [oboe tacet]
  • 10. Eternity
  • I. On Wenlock Edge
  • II. From far, from eve and morning
  • III. Is my team ploughing?
  • IV. Oh, when I was in love with you
  • V. Bredon Hill
  • VI. Clun
  • I. Love-Sight
  • II. Silent Noon
  • III. Love's Minstrels
  • IV. Heart's Haven
  • V. Death in Love
  • VI. Love's Last Gift
  • I. The Vagabond
  • II. Let beauty awake
  • III. The Roadside Fire
  • IV. Youth and Love
  • V. In Dreams
  • VI. The infinite shining heavens
  • VII. Whither must I wander
  • VIII. Bright is the ring of words
  • IX. I have trod the upward and the downward slope
  • Linden Lea - A Dorset song
  • Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
  • A Clear Midnight
  • Orpheus with his lute (first setting)
  • Hands, Eyes and Heart
  • Rest
  • 4. The Call (soloist in v.1 Philip Martin)
  • Linden Lea - A Dorset song
  • 1. The Dark Eyed Sailor
  • 2. The Spring Time of the Year
  • 3. Just as the tide was flowing
  • 4. The Lover's Ghost (Well met, my own true love)
  • 5. Wassail Song
  • Bushes and Briars
  • Loch Lomond (1995 Digital Remaster)
  • John Dory
  • Greensleeves
  • Ward, the Pirate
  • Ca' the Yowes
  • The Unquiet Grave
  • The Seeds of Love
  • Early in the Spring
  • The Turtle Dove
  • An Acre of Land
  • Bushes and Briars (men's voices)
  • 5. Wassail Song (transcr. for men's voices)
  • The Captain's Apprentice
  • As I walked out
  • Bushes and Briars (voice & piano)
  • Geordie
  • On Board a Ninety-Eight
  • The Ploughman
  • The Brewer
  • Rolling in the Dew
  • The Truth Sent from Above
  • Joseph and Mary (voice & piano)
  • The Saviour's Love
  • Réveillez-vous, Piccars
  • Chanson de quête
  • Ballade de Jésus Christ
  • She's like the swalllow
  • The Morning Dew
  • The Maiden's Lament
  • The Cuckoo
  • The Lawyer
  • Searching for Lambs
  • How cold the wind doth blow (or The Unquiet Grave)
  • A Song of Thanksgiving
  • I. Prologue (chorus)
  • II. Wake now (baritone and chorus)
  • III. The Calling of the Bride (chorus)
  • IV. The Minstrels (chorus)
  • V. Procession of the Bride (chorus)
  • VI. The Temple Gates (chorus)
  • VII. The Bell Ringers (chorus)
  • VIII. The Lover's Song (baritone and chorus)
  • IX. The Minstrel's Song (baritone and chorus)
  • X. Song of the Winged Loves (chorus)
  • XI. Prayer to Juno (baritone and chorus)
  • Where is she?
  • Where is the bit of new rope? [fig. 12]
  • Wait, Nora [4 bars after fig. 22]
  • You didn't give him his bit of bread? [2 bars before 28]
  • Bartley will be lost now [fig. 35]
  • They are all gone now [2 bars after fig. 42]
  • (Allegro vivacissimo) - Buy, buy, buy (Cheap-Jack)
  • Cold blows the wind on Cotsail (Showman)
  • As I was a-walking (Ballad Seller)
  • Show me a richer man (John)
  • Here come the Morris men (Chorus)
  • Life must be full of care (Aunt Jane)
  • Sweet little linnet that longs to be free (Hugh)
  • Horse-hoofs, horse-hoofs, thunder down the valleys (Hugh)
  • In the night-time I have seen you riding (Mary)
  • Mary! Mary! (Constable)
  • Oh! the devil and Bonyparty (Showman)
  • Yes, I! (Hugh)
  • Are you ready? Go! (Showman)
  • The drover's won! (Showman)
  • I tell you there's a price on this man's head (Constable)
  • (Lento moderato) - Past four o'clock (Ballad Seller)
  • Gaily! I go to die (Hugh)
  • Hugh! ... Mary! (Mary/Hugh)
  • Sweet little home (Mary)
  • Where's she gone to? (Constable)
  • Here, queen uncrowned (Mary)
  • A trollop from the stocks (John)
  • Dropped from the ranks on a winter's night (Sergeant)
  • March away, John! (Chorus)
  • O foolish girl, o radiant soul! (Hugh)
  • Oh! the sky shall be our roof (Hugh/Mary)
  • (Allegro vivace) - What-hoa! (Shallow, Evans, Slender, Page)
  • How now, Master Shallow (Falstaff, Shallow, Slender, Bardolph, Pistol, Page, Nym)
  • O heavens, this is mistress Anne Page (Slender, Page, Falstaff, Shallow, Evans, Simple, Anne)
  • Ahem ... I had rather than forty shillings (Anne, Slender)
  • Weep eyes, break heart (Anne)
  • Do but look on her eyes (Fenton, Anne)
  • I see I cannot get thy father's love (Fenton, Anne, Page)
  • Vere is dat knave Rugby? (Caius, Rugby, Simple, Mrs Quickly)
  • I will myself marry Anne Page (Caius, Mrs Quickly, Rugby, Fenton)
  • Master Fenton, I'll be sworn she loves you (Mrs Quickly, Fenton, Bardolph, Nym, Pistol, Host)
  • Back and side go bare (Bardolph, Nym, Pistol, Host, Falstaff)
  • I spy entertainment in her (Falstaff, Pistol, Nym, Bardolph, Host)
  • Wilt thou revenge? (Pistol Nym, Ford)
  • Love my wife? I will be patient (Ford)
  • When daises pied and violets blue (Mrs Ford, Mrs Page, Ford)
  • (Allegro moderato e maestoso)
  • Thine own true knight (Mrs Page, Mrs Ford)
  • Ask me no reason why I love you (Mrs Ford, Mrs Page, Mrs Quickly)
  • Sigh no more, ladies (Mrs Quickly, Mrs Page, Mrs Ford)
  • (Maestoso)
  • Bardolph, Bardolph, I say! (Falstaff, Bardolph)
  • Give your worship good morrow (Mrs Quickly, Falstaff)
  • O that joy so soon should waste! (Falstaff)
  • There's one Master Brook below (Bardolph, Falstaff, Ford)
  • I have long loved her (Ford, Falstaff)
  • The dew that lies on roses (Falstaff, Ford)
  • Vere is mine host of de Garter? (Caius, Host, Slender, Shallow, Page, Ford)
  • (Maestoso)
  • (Andante moderato)
  • Yet hear me speak (Fenton, Host, Chorus, Anne)
  • Beauty clear and fair (Fenton, Chorus, Anne)
  • Fair and fair and twice so fair (Chorus, Fenton, Anne, Host)
  • But listen, good mine host (Anne, Chorus, Host, Fenton)
  • I mun be married a-Sunday (Host, Chorus, Anne, Fenton)
  • (Lento) - When we sat down in Papylon (Evans, Simple)
  • How now, Master Parson?
  • Peace, I say! (Shallow, Page, Slender, Evans, Host, Caius, Simple, Rugby, Ford)
  • When I was a bachelor (Host, Omnes except Slender and Ford)
  • (Allegro)
  • What, John! What, Robert! (Mrs. Ford, Mrs Page, John & Robert, Mrs Quickly)
  • Alas my love, you do me wrong (Mrs Ford, Falstaff)
  • Have I caught my heavenly jewel (Falstaff, Mrs Ford)
  • Mistress Ford! Mistress Ford! (Mrs Quickly, Falstaff, Mrs Ford, Mrs Page)
  • When I was a bachelor (Chorus of Men, Mrs Ford, Ford, Robert, Mrs Page)
  • Nay, follow him gentleman (Page, Mrs Page, Mrs Ford, Ford, Evans, Caius, Slender, Shallow, Host, Pistol, Bardolph, Nym)
  • Mistress Page! ... Mistress Page! (Ford, Page, Mrs Page, Host, Chorus)
  • (Andante piacevole)
  • Pardon me, wife (Ford, Mrs Ford, Page, Mrs Page, Evans)
  • There is an old tale goes (Mrs Page, Page, Mrs Ford, Ford)
  • Trib, fairies, trib ... Round about in a fair ring-a (Evans, Chorus, Mrs Page, Page, Caius, Slender, Evans, Mrs Ford)
  • (Lento moderato [Greensleeves])
  • (Vivace)
  • The Windsor bell hath struck twelve (Falstaff, Mrs Ford, Mrs Page, Chorus of Fairies)
  • Oo Oo! ... Fairies black, grey, green and white (Chorus of Fairies, Anne, Falstaff, Mrs Quickly)
  • Dances of the Fairies (Allegro pesante) - But stay, I smell a man of middle earth (Evans, Falstaff, Host, Pistol, Chorus, Bardolph, Nym, Mrs Quickly)
  • Pinch him, pinch him black and blue (Chorus of Fairies, Falstaff)
  • (Moderato) - ay, do not fly (Page, Mrs Page, Ford, Mrs Ford, Host, Nym, Bardolph, Pistol, Mrs Quickly, Evans, Falstaff, Shallow, Slender, Simple, Caius) (That shld be 'Nay'...)
  • See the chariot at hand (Chorus, Fenton, Page, Anne, Falstaff, Ford, Mrs Page, Mrs Ford)
  • Whether men do laugh or weep (Falstaff, omnes)
  • Dance (Presto)
  • Prologue: Bunyan in Prison
  • Scene 1: The Pilgrim meets Evangelist
  • Scene 2: The House Beautiful
  • Nocturne (Intermezzo)
  • Scene 1: The Arming of the Pilgrim
  • Scene 2: The Pilgrim meets Apollyon
  • Buy! What will ye buy?
  • I buy the truth
  • Scene 2: The Pilgrim in Prison
  • Scene 1: The Pilgrim meets Mister By-Ends
  • Entr'acte
  • Who so dwelleth
  • The Lord is my Shepherd
  • Scene 3: The Pilgrim reaches the End of his Journey
  • Epilogue
  • Act III Scene 1
  • Act I Nocturne
  • Act IV Scene 1
  • Act IV Scene 2
  • Act II Scene 1