Posts tagged Vaughan Williams
Vaughan Williams
Concerto for oboe and strings (1944)
III. Finale (Scherzo)
Vaughan Williams
Phantasy Quintet (1935)
I. Prelude: Lento ma non troppo
II. Scherzo: Prestissimo
III. Alla Sarabanda: Lento
IV. Burlesca: Allegro moderato
Endellion Quartet
Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.
Vaughan Williams
Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise, they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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“Ravel was a pleasant visitor. Ralph enjoyed taking him sight-seeing, and was fascinated to find that he liked English food—the one thing the Cheyne Walk household had foreseen as a problem. But it was no problem at all: it appeared that steak and kidney pudding with stout at Waterloo station was Ravel’s idea of pleasurably lunching out.”
- Ursula Vaughan Williams, describing a visit by Ravel to England in 1909.
from A Ravel Reader, ed. A. Orenstein
Romance (1914) by Ralph Vaughan Williams
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The Romance for viola and piano was one of many pieces found in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ library after his death in 1958. It is probable that it was written and dedicated to the great English violist, Lionel Tertis, along with Vaughan Williams’ other pieces for viola, Flos Campi and the Suite for viola and small orchestra. The date of the composition is not known, but it is thought that it dates from around 1914. The piece is composed in arch form. It opens with soft, pentatonic murmurings from the piano, expanding into a rather melancholy and songful aria for the viola. The middle is somewhat restless and anguished, before closing in a similar manner to the beginning. The pentatonic modality is used throughout, though there are also stirring false relations and chromatic sections. Despite its relative brevity and content, the piece has, since its publication in 1961, gained a place in the modern viola repertoire.
— Wikipedia.org
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Six studies in English folksong (clarinet version)
Jonathan Cohler, clarinet
Judith Gordon, piano
I have played these before in their original incarnation with a cellist—such simple but artfully constructed and gorgeous music. The chicken noodle soup of the sound world.
But in the next world I shan’t be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in his medical corps uniform, ca. 1917.
Vaughan Williams - Piano Concerto
I. Toccata
Howard Shelley, piano
Royal Philharmonic Orch., Vernon Handley, cond.
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
BBC Symphony, Sir Andrew Davis, cond.
“Loch Lomond,” arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Freestate Men’s Chorus.
I am a die-hard devotee of the folksong arrangements of Percy Grainger, but I must admit that here the great Vaughan Williams does a tasteful and tasty job.
