V. Williams - English Folk Song Suite for Wind Quintet - 3. Folk Songs from Somerset Flute CDs Canada 28 August 1939

Canada 28 August 1939

"Rufford Park Poachers"

Title : Singapore Town

viola and continuo parts are wholly taken on by the flute

V. Williams - English Folk Song Suite for Wind Quintet - 3. Folk Songs from Somerset Flute CDs Canada 28 August 1939DESCRIPTION English Folk Song Suite, written in 1923 by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, is one of the most famous and best loved works for military band. It remains one of the few works for military band to be arranged for full orchestra. The orchestral arrangement was done by Vaughan Williams' student Gordon Jacob in 1924. Movement 1: March "Seventeen come Sunday" Movement 2: Intermezzo "My Bonny Boy" Movement 3: Folk Songs from Somerset