Vaughan Williams, Ralph - Merciless Beauty (voice and strings/pno)
On his return to civilian life after five years Army service in the First World War, Vaughan Williams revised some pre-war works, such as The Lark Ascending and his opera Hugh the Drover, and embarked on new compositions - the Pastoral Symphony, the one-act Bunyan episode The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains and the Mass in G minor - all of which have outwardly in common a serene tranquillity. But beneath the surface, especially of the symphony, is a requiem-like mood, a legacy of the war. This ambiguity can also be sensed in the three songs - or rondels - for voice and string trio which he called Merciless Beauty.The texts are attributed to Chaucer.
Merciless Beauty (voice and strings/pno)
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Voice and piano (classical)
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- EAN -
9780571516018 - Publication Date -
19/10/1995 - Instrumentation -
Voice and piano (classical) - Primary Composer|Arranger|Editor -
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
