Ralph Vaughan Williams' Flos Campi for SATB wordless chorus Viola solo and Orchestra. Study score.This work is one of Vaughan Williams's most enigmatic pieces. Although the six movements all borrow their titles from the Old Testament's Song of Solomon the Chorus never articulates a single word. Instead it serves as a section of the Orchestra creating an elegant vocal texture and backdrop to the Viola's haunting solo lines.Flos Campi was premiered in October 1925 by the violist Lionel Tertis singers from the RCM and the Queen's Hall Orchestra directed by Sir Henry Wood.

This is the first publication of Ralph Vaughan Williams's early work for orchestra Bucolic Suite which was completed in November 1900 and first performed by the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra in March 1902. This attractive work is cast in four movements - Allegro Andante Intermezzo Finale - and already shows evidence of the composer's emerging musical style and sure grasp of orchestral techniques. This new edition has been carefully prepared from the original manuscript by Julian Rushton and comes with full textual commentary. This publication will be welcomed by all aficionados of Vaughan Williams's music.

This study score marks the first publication of a previously little-known early work for chamber orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams. He started composing Harnham Down in 1904 completing the work in 1907. The score has been edited by James Francis Brown and includes an introduction by the editor.

Hardback-Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 8 for Orchestra. Full score. Orchestration: 2 fl 2 ob 2 cl 2 bn(opt 3rd) 2 hn 2 tpt 3 tbn timp 4 perc [opt 5th] 2 hp cel str. Vaughan Williams wrote Symphony No. 8 between 1953 and 1955 while in his eighties. It is his shortest symphony and considered by many to be his least serious. Aside from a few sombre moments the symphony is optimistic in mood and displays Vaughan Williams' love for exotic and colourful combinations of instruments with a percussion section that he said employs 'all the 'phones and 'spiels known to the composer'. Forthis newly engraved edition editor David Lloyd-Jones has consulted all extant sources and materials to create a score matching the composer's intentions. The full score is completed with Textual Notes and Preface and accompanying orchestral parts are available on hire.

Hardback-Ralph Vaughan Williams's 6th Symphony was composed immediately after the Second World War and its dramatic and at times violent musical language was long felt to be a comment on that conflict (though the composer denied it had any programmatic intent). Its power and invention were immediately recognized and it has remained part of the concert repertoire ever since. For this newly engraved edition editor David Lloyd-Jones has consulted all extant sources and materials to create a score matching the composer's intentions.

Paperback-Jointly commissioned by The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust and Oxford University Press 'A Road All Paved With Stars' is a single-movement work incorporating the finest music of Vaughan Williams's opera The Poisoned Kiss.

Described by Walton as the 'greatest symphony since Beethoven' Vaughan Williams's fourth symphony is noted for its abrasively dissonant harmonic language.This new scholarly edition edited by David Matthews will replace the existing 1935 OUP edition. The preliminary text will include a preface sources and editorial method and detailed textual notes.

Originally intended as the first piece in a cycle of four impressions entitled 'In the New Forest' Burley Heath was written in 1902 but never finished.The manuscript represents a 168-bar fragment which James Francis Brown the editor of this edition has completed by inserting a recapitulation of the initial material. Marking the first publication of this previously little-known early work this edition also contains an introduction by the editor.

The one-act ballet Job has been described as one of Vaughan Williams's mightiest achievements. It is a work which in a full production combines painting literature music and dance. The work was inspired by William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job and includes quotations from the King James Bible.The result is a musical masterpiece combining the ancient and the modern: Vaughan Williams's earlier style is in evidence including tranquil pastoral melodies but the work also anticipates the composer's later style. This new scholarly edition edited by Julian Rushton will replace the existing OUP edition from 1934 and will includedetailed preliminary matter comprising a preface sources and editorial method and detailed textual notes.