Songs of Travel

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Songs of Travel is a song cycle of nine songs for baritone voice composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with words by Robert Louis Stevenson.

He wrote it with piano accompaniment. His assistant Roy Douglas later orchestrated the piano part. The orchestral version has often been recorded, but not always with Douglas acknowledged as its orchestrator.

Notable performers of this cycle include Bryn Terfel and Sir Thomas Allen.

[edit] Song Listing

1. The Vagabond
2. Let Beauty Awake
3. The Roadside Fire
4. Youth and Love
5. In Dreams
6. The Infinite Shining Heavens
7. Whither Must I Wander?
8. Bright Is the Ring of Words (occasionally performed by sopranos)
9. I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope (only to be performed in public after the eight other songs)