V2474. Heirs and Rebels, Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Gustav Holst, incl. Peter Dawson, Edgar Coyle, Robert Irwin, Stuart Robertson, Gerald Moore, George Thalben-Ball, Leslie Woodgate, Rae Jenkins, BBC Chorus, etc. (Poland) Albion ALBCD 027, accompanied with elaborate 24pp booklet featuring all texts. - 5060158190270

Vaughan Williams:

The Vagabond (from Songs of Travel) The roadside fire Bright is the Ring of Words (No. 8 from Songs of Travel) Silent Noon Linden Lea English Folk Song Suite Sea Songs For all the saints (Sine nomine) Wassail Song

Holst:

Lovely Kind, and Kindly Loving This have I done for my true love, H128, Op. 34 No. 1 Turn back, O man Suite No. 1 for Military Band A Moorside Suite Marching Song, Op. 22 No. 2 Wassail Song

“HEIRS AND REBELS is the title given to a book of letters between Holst and Vaughan Williams: ‘The heirs had come into their inheritance and the rebels had led a revolution of greater importance than they could guess’. The friendship between the two composers, perhaps the closest in musical history, was strong enough to withstand totally honest criticism, and Vaughan Williams was devastated by Holst's death in 1934. This release revives 78rpm recordings made by the composers' contemporaries which are now of both historical and musical interest.”

- Albion Records