The Music
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958)
To celebrate the 150th year of his birth …
Toward The Unknown Region (1907), a remarkable marriage of music and Walt Whitman’s text which established Vaughan Williams as an important English composer.
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Mass in g minor (1921), a distinctly English and deeply spiritual mass in five unaccompanied movements.
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Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Vier Quartette, Op. 92 (1884), a setting of four secular poems by Goethe, Daumer, Allmers, and Hebbel, demonstrating Brahms’s mastery of lyrical melody in depicting romantic moods.