Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Gerald Cockshott
Dorking
Dear Mr Cockshott
Thankyou for the 'Holly & Ivy' - I think your list of gramophone records very good1 - Though I think I shd like to add a few more both of the older & the younger school - Also I don't think you mention the Enigma Variations - also some choral works - Elgar Gerontius, Parry 'Blest Pair', Stanford 'Songs of the Fleet' & 'Revenge', Holst "Hymn of Jesus" & Britten's 'Boy was born' Ireland 'These things shall be' - what about some Grainger & ought not you to [be] in - & what about some Purcell & some madrigals?
I shall be free Jan 10, 11, & 12 & would gladly look at some of your work on one of those days
Yrs sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
P.S. choral music
Holst's "This have I done for my true love"
1. The purpose of the list is not clear - perhaps Cockshott compiled it for teaching his students.
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- Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934. Dream of Gerontius
- Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings, 1848-1918. Blest pair of Sirens
- Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934. Hymn of Jesus
- Stanford, Charles Villiers, 1852-1924. The Revenge
- Ireland, John, 1879-1962. These things shall be
- Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934. Part-songs, mixed voices, op. 34. This have I done for my true love
- Stanford, Charles Villiers, 1852-1924. Songs of the Fleet
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. A Boy was born
- Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934. Variations on an original theme
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