Folksong and music from The Golden Age of English music that so inspired Vaughan Williams.

Summertown Choral Society's third commission: music by Andrew Gant including an original composition, a folk song setting and a variation on a theme by Thomas Tallis.

Vaughan Williams collected over 800 folk songs; he enjoyed "the ever present chance of picking up some rare old ballad or an exquisitely beautiful melody, worthy, within its smaller compass, of a place beside the finest compositions of the greatest composers". He rediscovered Elizabethan and Tudor music, commenting that "They produced poetry and music that has never been surpassed". His circle included Gustav Holst, "the greatest influence on my music" and Hubert Parry whose "Blest Pair of Sirens" he described as "the finest musical work that has come out of these Islands". "For people have come to find a special message in our music which that of other nations, however skilled and imaginative, cannot give them" (RVW).