Merciless Beauty (Vaughan Williams) - from CDA67168 - Hyperion Records

Track(s) taken from CDA67168

The beneficent influence of folksong can be felt in Merciless Beauty, settings of three rondels by Geoffrey Chaucer. Composed in 1921, they were first performed by Steuart Wilson (tenor) at a recital in the Aeolian Hall on 4 October that year.

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Recording details: October 1999
All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: September 2000
Total duration: 6 minutes 22 seconds

Merciless Beauty

composer

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

1921

author of text

Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400)

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), The Nash Ensemble

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Your eyën two [2'35] English

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So hath your beauty [2'35] English

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Since I from love [1'12] English

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