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Under Sir David Willcocks, there is never an impure or intrusive tone and yet no want of energy, flavour or dynamic range either. The orchestrations have the unfailing touch of a composer fully... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2009 More…

Release Date: 27th Jul 2009
Catalogue No: ALBCD010
Label: Albion Records
Length: 55 minutes

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Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs of the Four Seasons

Work length1:35

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge, English Voices, Dmitri Ensemble
Sir David Willcocks

Prologue: To the ploughboy

Track length1:35

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Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, Spring

Work length7:47

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Spring: Early in the Spring

Track length2:15

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Spring: The Lark in the Morning

Track length2:45

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Spring: May Song

Track length2:47

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Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, Summer

Work length9:44

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Elisabeth Fleming (alto)

Summer: Summer is a-coming in and the Cuckoo

Track length3:18

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Summer: The Sprig of Thyme

Track length2:31

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Summer: The Sheep Shearing

Track length2:31

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Summer: The Green Meadow

Track length1:24

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Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, Autumn

Work length9:27

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Autumn: John Barleycorn

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Autumn: The Unquiet Grave

Track length4:42

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Autumn: An Acre of Land

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Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, Winter

Work length13:04

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Winter: Children's Christmas song

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Winter: Wassail song

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Winter: In Bethlehem city

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Winter: God bless the Master

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Vaughan Williams: In Windsor Forest (Arr. G. Foote for Women's Voices)

Work length13:35

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Catharine Rogers (soprano)
Choir of Clare College Cambridge, English Voices, Dmitri Ensemble
Sir David Willcocks

The Conspiracy

Track length1:46

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Falstaff and the Fairies

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Wedding Chorus

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Epilogue

Track length2:22

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Both the Folk Songs of the Four Seasons and this arrangement of In Windsor Forest are world premiere recordings. The Folk Songs of the Four Seasons is a substantial work by Vaughan Williams, over 40 minutes long, for women’s chorus and orchestra. It is the most significant of his works never to have been recorded in any format.

The Folk Songs of the Four Seasons was commissioned by the Women’s Institute and first performed in 1950. The work has a Prologue and four sections: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

The coupling is the rare arrangement for women’s voices, by Guthrie Foote and Vaughan Williams, of the Cantata In Windsor Forest based on choruses from the opera Sir John in Love.

This new Albion recording is issued to mark the 90th birthday of Sir David Willcocks on 30 December, 2009. Sir David is world famous for his recordings for EMI and for his work at King’s College, Cambridge and the Bach Choir. For Sir David to record another major Vaughan Williams disc at the age of almost 90 is remarkable in itself and will ensure national and international interest in this recording.

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November 2009

Under Sir David Willcocks, there is never an impure or intrusive tone and yet no want of energy, flavour or dynamic range either. The orchestrations have the unfailing touch of a composer fully engaged in his task and the recording does full justice to the generous, affectionate work which it has the honour to present on disc for the first time.

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