THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates
Dorking

Dec 22 [1943]

Dear Gerald

“Dies” is lovely¹ – we were all much moved last night – the nuisance was that it set me thinking of all my sins of omission. I still prefer the soprano – it gives a lightness of quality which the Tenor cannot have (I thought E. G.²  was very good all the same – though I thought he took No. 5 too quick).
My love to Joyce
Yrs

RVW

1. Finzi’s Dies natalis.
2. Eric Greene, who often sang the Evangelist in VW’s annual performances of the St Matthew Passion at Dorking.