HYMNS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - CARDIFF FESTIVAL CHOIR

Since his student days Ralph Vaughan Williams had been delving into the roots of English music through a study of folksong and Elizabethan and Jacobean music.. He believed passionately in preserving such material saying in lectures given in 1902-3 that ‘the collector of folk songs gives them back again to the world…will they not, perhaps, once more make their way back to the mouths of the people?’ He was aware that for many people music sung in church was their one experience of practical music making each week ‘and it was all too unworthy both of their faith and of music itself’ (RVW Ursula Vaughan Williams OUP 1964).

Total time: 69:14

With Vaughan Williams and the Cardiff Festival Choir comes a strength of a different kind. This derives partly from the performers, but largely from RVW who,…having to find harmonies for tunes, did so in a way that suited their character…The Choir perform with spirit,…the women…with unfailing beauty of tone” (Gramophone)

• For All the Saints (Tune: Sine Nomine) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• Come Down O Love Divine (Down Ampney) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• At the Name of Jesus Every Knee Shall Bow (Kings Weston) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• The King of Love My Shepherd is (St Columba) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• Welcome, Day of the Lord (Salve Festa Dies) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• Saviour Again, to Thy Dear Name We Raise (Magda) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• Teach Me, My God and King (Sandys) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• Rest of the Weary (Fortunatus) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• Fierce Raged the Tempest Over the Deep (White Gates) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• He Who Would Valiant Be (Monks Gate) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• Into the Wood the Master Went (Mantegna) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• Firmly I Believe and Truly (Shipston) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• God be With You Till We Meet Again (Randolph) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• I Vow to Thee My Country (Abinger) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• England Arise the Long Long Night is Over (Guildford) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• It is A Thing Most Wonderful (Herongate) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• The Night is Come Like to the Day (Oakley) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• Servants of the Great Adventure (Marathon) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• All Creatures of Our God and King (St Francis) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• Servants of God, or Sons (Cumnor) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Famous Men) Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor
• Jesus Christ is Risen Today (Easter Hymns Ralph Vaughan Williams Cardiff Festival Choir: Arwel Hughes, conductor