for SATB and piano or orchestra Jonathan Wikeley's choral arrangement of Vaughan Williams's Four Last Songs offers a new way to engage with these beautiful late works. The texts are by Ursula Vaughan Williams, and the set begins and ends with two poems that were inspired by Greek mythology. The opening song, 'Procris', and the closing song, 'Menelaus', have flowing piano accompaniments that remain unchanged from the original solo voice versions. The two songs in the middle, 'Tired' and 'Hands, Eyes and Heart', areunaccompanied in this arrangement, with a double choir texture that incorporates the original chordal piano line in a way consistent with Vaughan Williams's own double choir writing. The songs are available in their original form, for solo voice and piano accompaniment, in the first volume of Collected Songs byVaughan Williams. These choral arrangements are compatible with Anthony Payne's orchestration, which is available from the Music Hire Library.

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