Ten Blake Songs
Song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ten Blake Songs is a song cycle for tenor or soprano voice and oboe composed over the Christmas period of 1957 by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), for the 1958 film The Vision of William Blake by Guy Brenton for Morse Films.[1] The first nine songs are from Songs of Innocence and of Experience by the English poet and visionary William Blake (1757–1827); the tenth (Eternity) is from Several Questions Answered (No1 & No2) from the poet's notebook . The cycle is dedicated to the tenor Wilfred Brown and the oboist Janet Craxton. It was first performed in concert and broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 8 October 1958, shortly after the composer's death.[2][3][4]
The songs are:
- "Infant Joy" (Innocence)
- "A Poison Tree" (Experience)
- "The Piper" (Innocence, titled "Introduction")
- "London" (Experience)
- "The Lamb" (Innocence)
- "The Shepherd" (Innocence)
- "Ah! Sun-flower" (Experience)
- "Cruelty Has a Human Heart" (Experience, titled 'A Divine Image')
- "The Divine Image" (Innocence)
- "Eternity" (Several Questions Answered, closing words)
References
- ^ Liner notes on LP Contour Red Label (Pickwick Records) CC 7577.
- ^ Satola, Mark. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Blake Songs (10) for voice & oboe at AllMusic. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ "Ten Blake Songs: Song Cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)". The LiederNet Archive. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ 10 Blake Songs (Vaughan Williams, Ralph): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
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- Hugh the Drover
- Sir John in Love
- The Poisoned Kiss
- Riders to the Sea
- The Pilgrim's Progress
- Job: A Masque for Dancing
- A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1)
- A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
- Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)
- Symphony No. 4 in F minor
- Symphony No. 5 in D major
- Symphony No. 6 in E minor
- Sinfonia antartica (Symphony No. 7)
- Symphony No. 8 in D minor
- Symphony No. 9 in E minor
- In the Fen Country
- Norfolk Rhapsodies
- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
- Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
- The Story of a Flemish Farm
- Concerto Grosso
- The Lark Ascending
- Flos Campi
- Piano Concerto
- Suite for Viola and Orchestra
- Oboe Concerto
- Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
- Tuba Concerto
- Romance for viola and piano
- Six Studies in English Folk Song
- A Cambridge Mass
- Five Mystical Songs
- Fantasia on Christmas Carols
- O clap your hands
- Mass in G minor
- Sancta Civitas
- Magnificat
- Five Tudor Portraits
- Dona nobis pacem
- Serenade to Music
- An Oxford Elegy
- Folk Songs of the Four Seasons
- Three Shakespeare Songs
- O taste and see
- Hodie
- Songs of Travel
- On Wenlock Edge
- Four Hymns
- Ten Blake Songs
- Four Last Songs
- The Wasps
- The First Nowell
- 49th Parallel (1940 drama film)
- Coastal Command (1942 film)
- The Flemish Farm (1943 war film)
- Stricken Peninsula (1945 propaganda film)
- The Loves of Joanna Godden (1946 historical drama film)
- Scott of the Antarctic (1948 film)
- Bitter Springs (1950 film)
- The England of Elizabeth (1955 documentary)
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