RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Vaughan Williams Collection™ brings together a series of newly-edited editions of his incidental music published by Promethean Editions. Recognised as one of the major musical figures of his time, Ralph Vaughan Williams began his career as a folk song collector, music editor of The English Hymnal and founding conductor of the Leith Hill Festival, and went on to generate a vast musical output that includes song settings, symphonies, chamber music, opera and choral music. Ralph Vaughan Williams’ incidental music for Gilbert Murray’s English translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris is edited and arranged for orchestra by Alan Tongue. Vaughan Williams was brought into the production of three Greek plays by the dancer Isadora Duncan, with the public performance taking place at London’s Royal Court Theatre on Friday 31 May 1912. A preview of the production, appearing in The Globe, remarked of Vaughan Williams’ musical settings: “they are an attempt at something new, and something which is neither German nor French. This music is no experiment in style. It would seem, rather, as though the composer had disclaimed all styles and all schools, and found direct inspiration in the material of the poet’s inspiration, and the result is something of undeniable beauty.”
Ralph Vaughan Williams Iphigenia in Tauris
THE VAUGHAN WILLIAMS COLLECTION™
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust in the publication of this edition. ISMN 979-0-67452-291-5
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