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1. Fantasia on Greensleeves ...... 4:35 2. ...... 15:03 3. Mass in G minor - Agnus Dei...... 3:54 4. Phantasy Quintet - Prelude: Lento ma non troppo...... 4:06 5. The Wasps (Overture)...... 9:28 6. Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus...... 11:38 7. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis...... 15:17 8. Job: Scene IX - Epilogue...... 2:59 9. Mass in G minor - Sanctus - Osanna 1...... 2:33

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Fantasia on Greensleeves ...... 4:35 One of the leading English composers of his generation, Vaughan Williams was The Lark Ascending...... 15:03 a pupil of Parry, Charles Wood and Stanford, and later of Bruch and Ravel. In his work as a composer he went some way towards creating a specifically English Mass in G minor - Agnus Dei...... 3:54 musical idiom, influenced by his interest in folk-song, but colored by his own Phantasy Quintet - Prelude: Lento ma non troppo...... 4:06 personal vision and language. Vaughan Williams wrote nine , the The Wasps (Overture)...... 9:28 first of theseA Sea , with words taken from , the Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus...... 11:38 second “A London” Symphony and the third a “Pastoral” Symphony. The Sixth Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis...... 15:17 Symphony, completed in its first version in 1947, seemed to break new ground and was followed by a seventh, the . Job: Scene IX - Epilogue...... 2:59 Mass in G minor - Sanctus - Osanna 1...... 2:33 Compositions by Vaughan Williams for solo instrument and orchestra include the pastoral romance The Lark Ascending, for solo violin, and a Concerto accademico for solo violin and string orchestra. There is an attractive concerto for and two more unusual concertos, one for harmonica and the other for bass . uses a solo and is scored also for a small and chamber orchestra. He made direct use of folk-song in his three , his Fantasia on Greensleeves, for solo , harp and strings and in his English Folksong Suite for military band, among other works. His Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for two string orchestras returns to the 16th century for its musical inspiration.

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