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Fantasia on Christmas Carols is a 1912 work for baritone, chorus, and orchestra by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. [ 1 ] It was first performed on September 12, 1912 at the Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral ; it was conducted by the composer with the baritone Campbell McInnes .
Like several of Vaughan Williams's other works, the Fantasia draws on the music of the English Renaissance. [9] Tallis's tune is in the Phrygian mode, characterised by intervals of a flat second, third, sixth and seventh; [4] the pattern is reproduced by playing the white notes of the piano starting on E. [10]
The carol has been arranged by a number of composers. Vaughan Williams' setting is found in his Eight Traditional English Carols. [6] Several years earlier, Vaughan Williams had included the carol in his Fantasia on Christmas Carols, first performed at the 1912 Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral. [7]
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910, rev. 1913 and 1919) Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (1934) [6] (for string orchestra and harp; arranged by Ralph Greaves from Vaughan Williams's treatment of folk tunes in his opera Sir John in Love) Two Hymn Tune Preludes (1936) for small orchestra: 1. Eventide; 2. Dominus regit me
Vaughan Williams c. 1920. Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (/ ˌ r eɪ f v ɔː n ˈ w ɪ l j ə m z / ⓘ RAYF vawn WIL-yəmz; [1] [n 1] 12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer. . His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty yea
Vaughan Williams later used the carol to open his Fantasia on Christmas Carols of 1912. [7] Gerald Finzi, with permission from Vaughan Williams and Mrs Leather, also used the melody as the basis of his 1925 choral work The Brightness of This Day, substituting the text for a poem by George Herbert. [8]
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Hodie (This Day) is a cantata by Ralph Vaughan Williams.Composed between 1953 and 1954, it is the composer's last major choral-orchestral composition, and was premiered under his baton at Worcester Cathedral, as part of the Three Choirs Festival, on 8 September 1954.