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Vaughan Williams' Keyboard Works
Music for 1 or 2 Pianofortes
Background InformationPrelude on "Rhosymedre"
"The most popular of his Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn-Tunes for organ, this work has achieved an independent life in Arnold Foster's arrangment for strings. Either form is wonderful, although I give the edge to the original. It strikes me that VW is one of the few composers who successfully learned from Bach how to compose an organ prelude. It invites thriving comparison to such monuments as "Wachet auf," "Jesu, joy of man's desiring," and "Sheep may safely graze." I cannot find a current listing in the Schwann, although (predictably) EMI had put out a performance with Marriner and the ASMF which they withdrew. My favorite performance, no longer available, is by organist Timothy Farrell on British RCA Gold Seal." -- Steve Schwartz Recommended Recording:Timothy Farrell, organ. British RCA Gold Seal (lp) GL 25016
* Vally Lasker was a very competent pianist and a member of staff at St. Paul's Girls' School, which had also employed Gustav Holst. She arranged several of Vaughan Williams' works for Piano. |
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