Vaughan Williams composed three Norfolk Rhapsodies in 1905 and 1906, basing them on folk tunes he had collected around the Wash. But only the first of them has remained in the repertory, relished as one of the composer's fondest and most ravishing explorations of the folk tradition. The score of Norfolk Rhapsody No.3 was destroyed, Norfolk Rhapsody No.1 survived and now Edition Zeza released No.2. It opens with a quiet slow introduction, builds to a faster, louder climax and then subsides to the mood in which it began.