Five Mystical Songs

Description

The Five Mystical Songs were written between 1906 and 1911. The work sets four poems by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593–1633), from his 1633 collection The Temple: Sacred Poems (“Easter” is divided into two parts). While Herbert was a priest, Vaughan Williams himself was an atheist at the time (though he later settled into a “cheerful agnosticism”), though this did not prevent his setting of verse of an overtly religious inspiration. The work received its first performance on 14 September 1911, at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, with Vaughan Williams conducting.

Contents:

• 1. Easter

• 2. I Got Me Flowers

• 3. Love Bade Me Welcome

• 4. The Call

• 5. Antiphon

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