Two Herefordshire Carols – arranged by Vaughan Williams (adapted for brass band by Paul Hindmarsh)

Description

Two English traditional carols collected and arranged by E. M. Leather and R . Vaughan Williams. They were sung to VW by Mrs. Esther Smith of Dilwyn, near Hereford. In 1920 his harmonisations were published in TheOxford Book of Carols, with different texts – Joseph and Mary, a traditional 17th century carol, and Coverdale’s Carol, translated from a 16th century German source by Miles Coverdale. Three verses of Coverdale’s Carol are folded within four of the more animated setting of Joseph and Mary. The arrangement is unfied by a short motif derived from the accompaniment to its second verse.
Copyright 1920, 2011 and 2022 by Stainer & Bell Ltd., 23 Gruneisen Road, London, N3 1DZ, www.stainer.co..uk

Recorded on Albion ALBCD053

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