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Vaughan Williams: 5 Tudor Portraits by David Willcocks released in 1993. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Vaughan Williams bought an the recently published Henderson edition of Skelton, thoroughly enjoyed the raciness and tenderness of the poetry, and decided to workset some of it to overmusic. Poet and composer were made for each other, for Skelton seems ‘modern’ in so many respects, while Vaughan Williams was equally at thehome in Skelton’s ...
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Find release reviews and credits for Vaughan Williams: 5 Tudor Portraits - David Willcocks on AllMusic - 1993
Five Tudor Portraits (1935), by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is a work scored for contralto (or mezzo-soprano), baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra. It sets several poems, or extracts from poems, by the 15th/16th-century poet John Skelton, portraying five characters with a mixture of satire, compassion, acerbity and earthy humour.
Five Tudor Portraits / Benedicite / Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus ~ Release by Vaughan Williams; Harper, Bainbridge, Case, Bach Choir, New Philharmonia & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks (see all versions of this release, 1 available)
