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English Folk Song Suite
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) | Samuel Brady, Conductor

I. March
II.  Intermezzo
III. Folk Songs from Somerset


Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in 1872 in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire and is one of England’s most well-known symphonists. He was among the first composers to go into the countryside of England and notate their folk songs and carols in order to preserve them. His English Folk Song Suite is a collection of those folk songs; the March contains “Seventeen Come Sunday,” “Pretty Caroline,” and “Dives and Lazarus,” the Intermezzo contains  “My Bonny Boy” and “Green Bushes,” and Folk Songs from Somerset contains “Blow Away the Morning Dew,” “High Germany,” “Whistle, Daughter, Whistle,” and “John Barleycorn”.