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Ralph Vaughan Williams Ten Blake Songs (1958) Lois Winter, soprano; Marvin Morgenstern, violin; John Goberman, cello; John Langstaff, baritone; Ronald Roseman, oboe; Hiroko Yajima, violin Three Song Cycles Desto Records DC-6482, no date [with "Merciless Beauty" and "Along the Field." According to the liner notes, the composer--shortly before his death at 86 in 1958--agreed to the commission on the understanding that "the songs must not include 'that horrible little lamb--a poem I hate.' He wrote nine songs in four days, and one morning said in a rage, 'I was woken up by a tune for that beastly little lamb, and it's rather a good tune.' So the tenth Blake song was written."