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On Wenlock Edge

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On Wenlock Edge

Song cycle for tenor, piano, and string quartet by Vaughan Williams (text by A E Housman), first performed in London on 15 November 1909. A version with string orchestra was performed in London on 24 January 1924.



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Although written in 1908, Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge, a setting of six poems from A.
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Mark Padmore, the outstanding English tenor of his generation, joined the Nash Ensemble for On Wenlock Edge, Vaughan Williams's setting of AE Housman's unsettling poems from A Shropshire Lad.
 
 
 
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