Folk Songs of the Four Seasons

Composer: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph
  • Written in 1949, Folk Songs of the Four Seasons is a cantata for women’s chorus and orchestra comprising a sixteen folk songs collected by Vaughan Williams. The cantata is organized into four seasons, plus a prologue:
    • Prologue: To the Ploughboy
    • Spring
      Early in the Spring
      The Lark in the Morning
      May Song
    • Summer
      Summer is a-coming in
      The Cuckoo
      The Sprig of Thyme
      The Sheep Shearing
      The Green Meadow
    • Autumn
      John Barleycorn
      The Unquiet Grave
      An Acre of Land
    • Winter
      Children’s Christmas Song
      Wassail Song
      In Bethlehem City
      God bless the Master
  • In 1952, Roy Douglas arranged an orchestral suite version of the piece1

Sources

  1. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Folk Songs of the Four Seasons (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Cut IDs

27180