Chamber Concerts-I
Music of R. Vaughan Williams
GEOFFREY DAMS (tenor)
ALFRED CAVE (violin)
ERNEST ELEMENT (violin)
FRANK VENTON (viola)
ARTHUR KENNEDY (viola)
HARRY STANIER (violoncello)
GEOFFREY DAMS
Four Hymns:
Lord ! Come away ! (Jeremy Taylor ) Who is this fair one ? (Isaac Watts)
Come Love, come Lord (
Richard Crashaw )
Evening Hymn (Robert Bridges) (Viola obbligato, ARTHUR KENNEDY)
FRED CAVE, ERNEST ELEMENT,
FRANK VENTON , AND HARRY STANIER
Quartet in G minor
1. Allegro moderato; 2. Minuet and trio; 3. Romance: Andante sostenuto ; 4. Finale : Rondo capriccioso
GEOFFREY DAMS
Songs of Travel (Part 2)
Let Beauty awake Youth and Love
In Dreams
The Infinite Shining Heavens
ALFRED CAVE, ERNEST ELEMENT,
FRANK VENTON , ARTHUR KENNEDY , AND HARRY
STANIER
Fantasy Quintet
1. Prelude; 2. Scherzo; 3. Alla Sarabanda ; 4. Burlesca
Ralph Vaughan Williams , born in 1872 at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, is a very distinguished Midland composer, perhaps the most distinguished not only of Midland but of British active musicians. A life-long enthusiast for folk music, as collector, editor and scholar, much of his work is coloured with an idiom which, in his hands, has taken the form of a music that is basically British.
All his music is stamped with a personal quality which has created a school of disciples-Vaughan Williams is a brilliant teacher with a record of many talented and successful pupils -but no immediate successor.
His better known works include an opera, Hugh the Drover, the ' London ' and ' Pastoral ' Symphonies, a Mass, A String Quartet, and many songs as beautiful as any in the English repertory. This programme is representative of that of his music which is acceptable to all music-loving listeners.