Ralph Vaughan Williams set a traditional English folk song of parting, fidelity and promised return—as surely as summer will return again next year.
Evensong “Turtle Dove”
Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged the English folk song “The Turtle Dove” in 1919, setting a traditional song of parting, fidelity and promised return. Collected from oral tradition in southern England, its simple farewell becomes something larger in Vaughan Williams’s hands: an expression of distance, memory and enduring affection.
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