Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Merciless Beauty (voice and strings/pno) / Faber Music

Setting: Voice and piano

Length: 16 pages

Publisher: Faber Music

Item number: 0571516017

ISMN: 9780571516018 / 978-0571516018

Hangszer/letét: Ének és zongora

Terjedelem: 16 oldal

Kiadó: Faber Music

Katalógusszám: 0571516017

On his return to civilian life after five years' Army service in the First World War, Vaughan Williams revised some pre-war works, such as The Lark Ascending and his opera Hugh the Drover, and embarked on new compositions - the Pastoral Symphony, the one-act Bunyan episode The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains and the Mass in G minor - all of which have outwardly in common a serene tranquillity. But beneath the surface, especially of the symphony, is a requiem-like mood, a legacy of the war. This ambiguity can also be sensed in the three songs - or rondels - for voice and string trio which he called Merciless Beauty.The texts are attributed to Chaucer.