THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates
Dorking

Nov 13 [1946]

Dear Frank

Pianoforte Concerto

Would you kindly ask your librarian to insert into the last movement “alla tedesca” 27 bars rest into each part before fig [50].
I think it can be quite easily done in the way I have suggested on the enclosed slip.
I think it had better be done in pencil since if the work is ever wanted again with one pfte the extra bars will not be used.¹
Yrs sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

1.  This refers to the new solo passage inserted in the two-piano version of the Piano Concerto, Catalogue of Works 1931/3, between figs 49 and 50 in the finale which is referred to in Catalogue of Works, p.140.