V-W 2 Part Songs SATB FM

Arranged for unaccompanied SATB choir.

Ralph Vaughan Williams' settings of Shakespeare's Sonnet 71 and Ben Johnson's Echo's Lament for Narcissus are here published for the first time, and present a fascinating insight into the early development of one of Britain's greatest 20th Century composers.

Written when Vaughan Williams was a student at the Royal College of Music, studying under Charles Standford, the two songs are an excellent and contrasted pair - the first addressing genuine mourning; the second a delightful madrigalian parody - and both make important and exciting additions to the choral repertory.