Two English Folksongs

composer

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

1913

author of text

Anonymous

Folksongs from Sussex

Recordings

Vaughan Williams: Songs

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), The Nash Ensemble

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Details

No 1: Searching for lambs As I went out one May morning

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), The Nash Ensemble

Track 4 on CDA67168 [2'40]

English

No 2: The Lawyer A lawyer he went out one day

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), The Nash Ensemble

Track 5 on CDA67168 [1'42]

English

Two English Folksongs

1913 saw Vaughan Williams’s settings of the Two English Folksongs ‘Searching for lambs’ and ‘The Lawyer’—the latter having just appeared in Butterworth’s collection of Folksongs from Sussex. Both are in the key of A modal minor, and both are examples of the supreme sensitivity Vaughan Williams always showed when providing an effective setting for the folksongs he loved.

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