Flos Campi
Flos Campi (Flower of the Field). Suite by Vaughan Williams for solo va., mixed ch. (wordless), and small orch. F.p. London 1925 (soloist Lionel Tertis). Each of the 6 movts. is prefaced by a Latin quotation from The Song of Solomon.
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