Clarinetist Jonathan Cohen Photo: (2013) Todd Rosenberg
Cellist May Mukle, 1919 Photo: Public Domain
The Six Studies in English Folk Song were written for the sisters May and Ann Mukle, cellist and pianist respectively, who gave the first performance in 1926.
Vaughan Williams wrote these six studies, not as simple transcriptions of songs, but as short fantasies based on them. And they fall nicely into the rich tradition of pastoral music that was written England following the horrors of the First World War.
Recorded by RNZ Concert in Auckland Concert Chamber, 27 October 2020
Producer: Tim Dodd; Sound engineer: Rangi Powick
