Fantasia on Christmas Carols (arr Laughlin)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr. Tim Laughlin)
General Info
Year: 1912 / 2016/ / 2020
Duration: c. 12:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Solo baritone, chorus, and orchestra
Publisher: Tim Laughlin
Cost: Score and Parts - $74.95 | SATB Octavo - $4.75 | Score Only - $5.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Solo Baritone voice
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn (optional)
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon (optional)
A Clarinet I-II-III (B-flat parts avail.)
Bass Clarinet
Contrabass Clarinet (optional)
Alto Saxophone I-II
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
C Trumpet I-II-III (B-flat parts avail.)
F Horn I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Trombone III (bass)
Euphonium (optional)
Tuba
String Bass
Organ (optional)
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:
- Chimes (Tubular Bells)
- Glockenspiel (Orchestral Bells)
- Triangle
Chorus (SATB)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Fantasia on Christmas Carols is a 1912 work for baritone voice, chorus, and orchestra by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. It was first performed on September 12, 1912, at the Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral, conducted by the composer with the baritone James Campbell McInnes.
The single-movement work of roughly twelve minutes consists of the English folk carols "The truth sent from above," "Come all you worthy gentlemen," and the Sussex Carol ("On Christmas night all Christians sing"), all folk songs collected in southern England by Vaughan Williams and his friend Cecil Sharp a few years earlier. These are interposed with brief orchestral quotations from other carols, such as The First Nowell. The early work remains popular with choral societies, and is sometimes paired with his longer Christmas work Hodie of 1954.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- The Singing Hoosiers, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (Bloomington, Ind.) (Chris Albanese, conductor) - 4 December 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Folk Songs from Somerset (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
- My Bonny Boy (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
- Seventeen Come Sunday (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
All Wind Works
- Concerto for Bass Tuba (arr. Wick and Chambers) (1954/1992)
- Concerto Grosso (arr. Grechesky) (1924)
- Concerto in F minor for Tuba and Winds (arr. Hare) (1954/1992)
- England's Pleasant Land (arr. Noble) (1938/2017)
- English Folk Song Suite. See: Folk Song Suite
- English Folk Song Suite (arr. Villanueva) (1924/)
- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (arr. Bocook) (1910/2006)
- Fantasia on Christmas Carols (arr. Laughlin) (1912/2016/2020)
- Fantasia on Greensleeves (arr. Wagner) (1934/2011)
- Five English Folk Songs (arr. Feldman) (1913/2009)
- Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" (arr. Gregson) (1939/2004)
- Flourish for Glorious John (orch. Boyd) (1957/1998)
- Flourish for Wind Band (1939)
- Folk Song Suite (1924/2008)
- Folk Songs from Somerset (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
- The Golden Vanity (arr. Wagner) (1933/2009)
- I Vow to Thee, My Country (as setter; ed. Grechesky) (1921/1988)
- Lark Ascending, The (tr. Silvester) (1914/1925/2003)
- Linden Lea (arr. Wagner) (1902/2013)
- Linden Lea (arr. Stout) (1902/1984)
- The Lowlands of Scotland (arr. Daehn) (1912/2006)
- March Past of the Kitchen Utensils (arr. Erwin) (1909/2010)
- My Bonny Boy (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
- Norfolk Rhapsody (tr. Robert O'Brien) (1905)
- Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2 in D minor (tr. O'Toole) (1906/2014?)
- Overture to "The Wasps" (tr. Frank Hudson) (1909)
- Prelude, 49th Parallel (arr. van der Beek) (1960/2018)
- Prelude: 49th Parallel (arr. Noble) (1941/2014)
- Prelude: 49th Parallel (arr. Winkler) (1941/1960)
- Prelude from "49th Parallel" (tr. Osmon) (1941/1960/1987/2002)
- Prelude on Three Welsh Hymn Tunes (arr. Curnow) (1954/1982)
- Prelude: The New Commonwealth (arr. Grauer) (1940/2006)
- A Ralph Vaughan Williams Portrait (arr. Wagner) (2018)
- Rhosymedre (tr. Beeler) (1920/1972)
- Rhosymedre (tr. Johnston) (1920/2011)
- Rhosymedre (tr. Baldwin) (1920/)
- The Running Set (arr. Daehn) (1933/2007)
- The Running Set (tr. Silvester) (1933)
- Scherzo alla Marcia (1956)
- Sea Songs (1924)
- Sea Songs (arr. Longfield) (1924/2006)
- Seventeen Come Sunday (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
- Sine Nomine (arr. Cacavas) (1906/1998)
- Sine Nomine (arr. Houseknecht) (1906/1960)
- Sine Nomine (arr. Reed) (1906/1976)
- Songs of Travel (arr. Patterson) (1901-4)
- Three Dorset Songs (arr. Stotter) (1902-1903/2003)
- Three Studies in English Folk Song (arr. Harbinson) (1927/1999/2003)
- Toccata Marziale (1924)
- Toccata Marziale (ed. Battisti) (1924/2005)
- Variations for Wind Band (trans. Hunsberger) (1957/1988/1997)
- A Vaughan Williams Christmas (arr. Wagner) (1999)
- Wassail (arr. Smith)
Resources
- Wikipedia. Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Accessed 26 September 2023