Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy (1968) Willcocks

Ralph Vaughan Williams
An Oxford Elegy

John Westbrook, narration
Cecil Aronowitz, viola
King's College Choir, Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks, conductor
The Jacques Orchestra

Recorded on July 30/31, 1968
in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

It came to our attention that no high quality version of this recording, a longtime favorite, was on YouTube. So here it is.

Vaughan Williams originally intended to write an operatic adaptation of "The Scholar Gipsy" based upon Malcolm Arnold's "Thyrsis" poem. He composed the Elegy between 1947-49, and it got its public premiere in 1952.

Wistful and melancholy, it seems to yearn for his youthful days in the company of Holst and Butterworth of bygone days.

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