Serenade to Music

~ Work

Relationships

lyricist:William Shakespeare (English poet and playwright)
composer:Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer) (in 1938)
other databases:https://www.classicalarchives.com/work/191664.html [info]
download score for free:imslp: Serenade to Music (Vaughan Williams, Ralph) [info]
Allmusic:https://www.allmusic.com/composition/mc0002369083 [info]
Wikidata:Q7453168 [info]
parts:1. Serenade to Music: Andantino
2. Serenade to Music: “How Sweet the Moonlight”
3. Serenade to Music: “Look How the Floor of Heaven…”
4. Serenade to Music: “Come, Ho! and Wake Diana With a Hymn”
5. Serenade to Music: “I Am Never Merry When I Hear Sweet Music”
6. Serenade to Music: “Music! Hark!”
7. Serenade to Music: “How Many Things by Season…”
8. Serenade to Music: “Soft Stillness and the night”

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1938-10-15Serenade to MusicNorman Allin, BBC Chorus, Isobel Baillie, Margaret Balfour, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Robert Easton, Roy Henderson, Mary Jarred, Parry Jones, Heddle Nash, Styles Allen, Elsie Suddaby, Frank Titterton, Eva Turner, Walter Widdop, Harold Williams, BBC Symphony Orchestra14:05
1953-09-19Serenade to MusicliveBBC Symphony Orchestra, Basil Cameron14:46
1969-11-05Serenade to MusicAlfreda Hodgson, Richard Angas, Kenneth Bowen, Norma Burrowes, John Carol Case, Bernard Dickerson, Meriel Dickinson, Wynford Evans, Marie Hayward, Sheila Armstrong, Gloria Jennings, Christopher Keyte, Susan Longfield, Shirley Minty, John Noble, Ian Partridge, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult13:15
1983-11Serenade to MusicLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley10:39
2001-04-01Serenade to MusicliveChoral Arts Society of Philadelphia, Donald Nally13:41
2010-08-03Serenade to MusicliveRebecca Afonwy-Jones, James Birchall, Marie Claire Breen, Gemma Brown, Owain Browne, Rónan Busfield, Stephen Chambers, Warren Gillespie, Beth Mackay, Ross McInroy, Emily Mitchell, Natalie Montakhab, Elin Pritchard, John Pumphrey, Lynda-Jane Workman, Michel de Souza, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles13:32
2011-03Serenade to MusicRochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Seaman12:33
2017-11-15 – 2017-11-16Serenade to MusicEmily D'Angelo, Tyler Duncan, Elmer Iseler Singers, Carla Huhtanen, Lawrence Wiliford, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Peter Oundjian14:31
2021-06-04 – 2021-06-05Serenade to Music: Andante sostenutoDennis Russell Davies, MDR-Sinfonieorchester, MDR-Rundfunkchor15:09
Serenade to MusicAtlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus, Nmon Ford, Kelley O'Connor, Jessica Rivera, Thomas Studebaker, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano13:05
Serenade to MusicLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult13:18
Serenade to MusicRalph Vaughan Williams12:52
Serenade to MusicLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult13:18
Serenade to MusicJohn Mark Ainsley, Sir Thomas Allen, Elizabeth Connell, John Connell, Arthur Davies, Maldwyn Davies, Anne Dawson, Martyn Hill, Gwynne Howell, Linda Kitchen, Diana Montague, Alan Opie, Jean Rigby, Amanda Roocroft, Sarah Walker, Catherine Wyn‐Rogers, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best13:45
Serenade to MusicLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult13:18
Serenade to MusicIndianapolis Symphonic Choir, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra13:26
Serenade to MusicLondon Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult13:17
Serenade to MusicliveAustralian Intervarsity Choral Festival Choir12:14
Serenade to MusicJoel Pitchon, The New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony, Kenneth Klein13:38
Serenade to MusicliveThe BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Charles Groves15:33
Serenade to MusicLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Roger Norrington14:14
Serenade to Music (choral version)Royal Festival Orchestra and Choir, Sir Adrian Boult11:58
Serenade to Music (orchestral version)Bradley Creswick, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox11:41
Serenade to Music (Shakespeare)Ralph Vaughan Williams12:44