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Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs of the Four Seasons

7/27/2009, 19 Tracks, 55:21

Featuring

  • Sir David Willcocks
  • Elisabeth Fleming
  • Catharine Rogers
  • Dmitri Ensemble
  • Choir of Clare College Cambridge
  • English Voices
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Performer Biography

Sir David Willcocks, a conductor on this album, began his musical training with piano lessons at age six and cello at age seven.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Sir David Willcocks, a conductor on this album, is famous for his arrangements of Christmas carols, co-editing many volumes with John Rutter that are now essential for Christmas.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Ralph Vaughan Williams, the composer, quoted the folk song "John Barleycorn" in his English Folk Song Suite for military band in 1924 and in the music for the 1943 film The People's Land.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Sir David Willcocks, a conductor on this album, was a chorister at Westminster Abbey for five years and later won a musical scholarship to Clifton College, Bristol.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Ralph Vaughan Williams, the composer, included the carol "Wassail Song" in his Five English Folk Songs of 1913.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album includes the world premiere recording of the arrangement for women's voices of "In Windsor Forest" by Guthrie Foote.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Sir David Willcocks, a conductor on this album, served in the infantry during World War II and received the Military Cross in November 1944.

Source: Booklet

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