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An English classic, performed here by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with David Nolan on violin and Vernon Handley conducting.
(Picture: "The Cornfield", 1826, by John Constable)
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, for 2 string orchestras (1910)
BBC SO conducted by Andrew Davis
BBC MM83
Watch the same performance here live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY
Description by Mark Satola [-]
The first performance of Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis took place at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral on September 6, 1910. The program was primarily devoted to Sir Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, which may partly account for its relatively cool reception. But its treatment, unusual for its day, of the unusual source material may also have puzzled the audience.
Vaughan Williams encountered Tallis' hymn while editing The English Hymnal in 1906; it had first appeared in Archbishop Parker's Metrical Psalter in 1567, set to the words, "Why fumeth in fight?" The peculiar modal qualities of the tune, with its prominent flatted seventh, not only allowed the composer considerable harmonic freedom from the prevailing strictures of diatonicism and chromaticism, but also made possible the simultaneous sense of the ancient and the modern that is the work's hallmark.
The Tallis Fantasia is scored for two string orchestras, one functioning as a "distant" choir, and a solo string quartet. After five widely spaced chords and a few bars in which the theme is fragmentarily mused upon by pizzicato basses, cellos, and swaying middle strings, arco, Tallis' hymn tune is stated in its original harmony by violas and celli with tremolando accompaniment by the high strings, and is then repeated in a setting that exploits all of the harmonic and contrapuntal facilities of a large string section.
The string choirs then separate for a short section in which fragments of Tallis' theme in the first string orchestra are answered by distant chordal musings from the second orchestra. This serves not only as a brief development section but also introduces the solo string quartet, whose masterly counterpoint demonstrates Vaughan Williams' affinity for stringed instruments. As the rhapsodic meditation increases in intensity, the more modern aspects of the composition come into focus, with vaguely impressionistic harmonies mingling with the modal, leading to an impressive climax in which the two orchestras are unleashed in their full chordal power. The string quartet leads a final, luminous musing on Tallis' tune, and the Fantasia ends with a short coda in which the solo violin pronounces a brief benediction as the orchestra falls away.
Publisher info:
London: J. Curwen, 1921. Curwen Edition, 90722.
Reprinted:
Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999.
Copyright:
Public Domain - Non-PD EU
- published: 26 Jun 2015
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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
for Double Stringed Orchestra
David Nolan, Leader
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson
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- published: 19 Mar 2012
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I. Lento - Allegro risoluto - 00:00
II. Lento - 15:10
III. Scherzo [Nocturne]: Allegro vivace - Andantino - 31:27
IV. Andante con moto - Maestoso alla marcia [quasi lento] - Allegro - Andantino ma sostenuto - Tempo primo - Allegro - Lento - Epilogue: Andante sostenuto - Lento - 42:34
Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in the Gloucestershire village of Down Ampney in 1872, the son of a clergyman. His ancestry on both his father's and mother's side was of some intellectual distinction. His father was descended from a family eminent in the law, while his maternal grandfather was a Wedgwood and his grandmother a Darwin. On the death of his father in 1875 the family moved to live with his mother's father at Leith Hill Place in Surrey. As a child Vaughan Williams learned the piano and the violin, and received a conventional upper middle class education at Charterhouse, after which he delayed entry to Cambridge, preferring instead to study at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Hubert Parry and Walter Parratt, later Master of the Queen's Musick, both soon to be knighted. In 1892 he took up his place at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read History, but took composition lessons from Charles Wood. After graduation in both History and Music, he returned to the Royal College, where he studied composition with Stanford, and, perhaps more significant, became a friend of a fellow-student, Gustav Holst. The friendship with Holst was to prove of great importance in frank exchanges of views on one another's compositions in the years that followed.
In 1897 Vaughan Williams married and took the opportunity to visit Berlin, where he had lessons from Max Bruch and widened his musical experience. In England he turned his attention to the collection of folk-music in various regions of the country, an interest that materially influenced the shape of his musical language. In 1908 he went to Paris to take lessons, particularly in orchestration, from Ravel, and had by now begun to make a reputation for himself as a composer, not least with the first performance in 1910 of his first symphony, A Sea Symphony, setting words by Walt Whitman, and his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis in the same year. The even tenor of his life was interrupted by the war, when he enlisted at once in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a private. 1914 was also the year of the London Symphony and of his rhapsodic work for violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending. Three years later, after service in Salonica that seemed to him ineffective, he took a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery and was posted to France. There he was also able to make some use of his abilities as a musician.
After the war Vaughan Williams returned to the Royal College of Music, now as a professor of composition, a position he retained until 1938. In these years he came to occupy a commanding position in the musical life of the country, with a series of compositions that seemed essentially English, the apparent successor of Elgar, although his musical language was markedly different. The war of 1939 brought the challenge of composition for the cinema, with notable scores for The 49th Parallel in 1940 and a number of other films, culminating in 1949 in his music for the film Scott of the Antarctic, the basis of the seventh of his symphonies. Other works of the last decade of his life included two more symphonies, the opera The Pilgrim's Progress, a violin sonata and concertos for harmonica and for tuba, remarkable adventures for an octogenarian. He remained active until his death in 1958.
- published: 06 Apr 2014
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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England
- Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
for String Orchestra and Harp
Skaila Kanga, Harp
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson
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- published: 05 Jun 2013
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[Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with Alison Barlow, soprano on Classics for Pleasure.]
Vaughan Williams composed his third symphony, 'A Pastoral Symphony', after he returned to England from active service as an officer in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the Western Front. Earlier in the war, he had served as a stretcher-bearer in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France and Salonika.
'A Pastoral Symphony' has been described as "A distillation of English Folk-Song" and, though at one level the work can be seen as a meditation on the English countryside and on the lives of those who lived and worked within it, at a deeper level it is a response to RVW's experiences during the war of 1914-18 and an expression of his grief and loss. It is 'war music' but of a very unusual kind.
To accompany this darkly serene symphony, I've assembled a sequence of paintings which, I hope, reflect the music's constantly shifting mood and atmosphere. I haven't attempted to tell a story but to suggest certain ideas and associations which, to my ears, are prompted by the music. The country scenes represent not only Britain, but France, Belgium and the (in the scherzo) the United States..
I have chosen paintings by artists from The British Isles, France, Belgium, Italy, Canada and the USA:
First movement: Works by Edmund Wilkins Waite, George Vicat Cole, Joseph Farquharson, Julien Dupre, Emil Claus, Henry Yeend King, Jules Breton and Theodore Rousseau.
Second Movement: Works by Frederick Waters Watts, Henry Yeend King, Julien Dupre, Fortunino Matania, Emil Claus and Haydn Reynolds McKay.
Third Movement: Thomas Moran, G V Cole, Albert Goodwin, Gustave Dore, John Arnesby Brown, John Fabian Carlson.
Fourth Movement: Christopher Nevinson, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Rogers, GV Cole, Emil Claus, Julien Dupre, Ugo Matania, George Edmund Butler, H. Yeend King, Paul Nash, William Orpen, Alfred Bastien,
- published: 05 Apr 2014
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[SEE BELOW FOR A LIST OF ARTISTS FEATURED]
Vaughan Williams's great paean to the city of London, written shortly before the outbreak of the Great War of 1914-18.
1st movment: Lento - Allegro risoluto 00:00
2nd movement: Lento: 14:00
3rd movement: Scherzo 24:43
4th movement Andante con moto - Maestoso all marcia 32:28
The performance is by the London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Roger Norrington on a wonderful Decca disc which also includes beautiful performances of the Tallis Fantasia and the Serenade to Music.
To accompany the music, I have used paintings of London which reflect the changing mood of the music as I hear it. Most of the paintings date from the early 20th century, though some are much later and a few somewhat earlier. They are listed below (work in progress: first three movements only.
FIRST MOVEMENT
00:10 George Hyde Pownell (1876-1932) Tower Bridge
00:59 David Roberts (1796-1864) St Paul's From the West
01:54 Marcus Ford (1914-1989) Tower Bridge
02:53 Edward Seago (1910-1974) Thames Embankment
03:25 Charles William Wyllie (1853-1923) Tower Bridge
04:13 William Logsdail (1859-1944) Bank of England
04:28 Anon (circa 1850) Snow Hill, Holborn
04:58 Rose Maynard Barton (1856-1929) Trafalgar Square
05:11 " " " " "
05:21 " " " " Fleet Street
05:33 William Logsdail Royal Exchange
05:44 Rose Maynard Barton Wesminster
05:44 Anders Zorn (1860-1920) 'Impressions of London'
06:03 Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) Blackman Street
06:24 Rose Maynard Barton
06:44 John O'Connor (1830-1899) Pentonville Road & St Pancras
06:56 Donald Maxwell (1877-1936) Lots Road Power Station
07:12 Sir George Clausen (1852-1944) 'Where the Guns Are Made'
07:32 Luther Hooper (1849-1932) 'Nocturn'
08:10 George Hyde Pownall (1876-1932) London Bridge
08:38 " " "
09:33 Edward Seago
10:27 Atkinson Grimshaw Hampstead
10:43 Unknown Street scene
11:01 Unknown High Holborn? Signed 'Smith'
11:27 John O'Connor Detail from picture at 06.44
11:43 Atkinson Grimshaw
11:54 " "
12:06 " " The Strand
12:24 Rose Maynard Barton London Bridge and Parliament
12:39 George Hyde Pownall St Pauls
12:50 Charles Dixon (1872-1934) Shipping on the Thames
13:10 William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931) 'Toil Glitter Grime & Wealth'
13:34 Charles Dixon Greenwich
SECOND MOVEMENT
14:00 John Atkinson Grimshaw
14:27 Abraham Pether (1756-1812)
14:53 John Atkinson Grimshaw
15:17 Unknown
15:38 John Atkinson Grimshaw
16:09 David Cressman (b1980) Battersea Power Station
16:31 George Hyde Pownall (1876-1932)
17:02 John Atkinson Grimshaw
17:26 Claude Monet (1840-1926)
18:00 John Atkinson Grimshaw
19:19 John Arnesby Brown (1866-1955)
19:48 Unknown
19:55 John Atkinson Grimshaw (sequence of 4 pictures)
21:34 Unknown
22:06 Frederick William Scarborough (1860-1930)
22:43 John Atkinson Grimshaw (sequence of 2 pictures)
THIRD MOVEMENT
Most pictures in this movement are paintings of Piccadilly and London's 'theatreland' at night by George Hyde Pownall. Other paintings featured are:
26:14 Unknown (Piccadilly Circus at night)
28:49 John Atkinson Grimshaw (Pall Mall)
30:32 John T Wood (Piccadilly and Regent Steet)
30:50 Giuseppe De Nittis (1846-1884) Westminster
31:21 John Atkinson Grimshaw: 2 pictures of Westminster
- published: 12 Jul 2013
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Roger Norrington conducts the London Philharmionic Orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams's 'Pastoral Symphony' which was completed and first performed in 1922. Its musical language is influenced by the English folk songs RVW collected in the early 1900s, though no actual songs are quoted in the work. It is one of RVW's most personal and intimate works and has come to be seen as a 'requiem' for those who suffered and died in the Great War of 1914-1918, in which Vaughan Williams served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and, later, as an officer in the Royal Artillery. A DECCA CD, coupled with the majesterial 5th Symphony in D.
- published: 03 Dec 2016
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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Manze perform Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 5 in D major.
One of Vaughan Williams's most tranquil works, begun just before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Source Info: www.bbc.co.uk
- published: 18 Aug 2012
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1st movement: Begins at 00:00
2nd movement: Begins at 20:55
3rd movement: Begins at 33:00
4th movement: Begins at 40:57
Felicity Lott, Jonathan Summers, Bernard Haitink and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of RVW's "A Sea Symphony". Much of the artwork accompanying the music is contemporary with Walt Whitman (1819-1892), whose verse is set in this work, or with Vaughan Williams himself (1872-1958). Some of the art is by living artists, notably Geoff Hunt (British) and Christopher Blossom (American). Other artists whose work appears here:
Andreas Achenbach
Ivan Aivazovsky
Albert Bierstadt
Frederick Edwin Church
Montague Dawson
Paul Gaugin
Winslow Homer
Frederick Judd-Waugh
Fitz Hugh Lane
Roy Lang
Edward Moran
Albert Julius Olsson
Edward Henry Potthast
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Charles Vickery
Langley Walter
- published: 10 Mar 2013
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (/ˌreɪf ˌvɔːn ˈwɪljəmz/ 12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century.
Vaughan Williams was born to a well-to-do family with strong moral views and a progressive social outlook. Throughout his life he sought to be of service to his fellow citizens, and believed in making music as available as possible to everybody. He wrote many works for amateur and student performance. He was musically a late developer, not finding his true voice until his late thirties; his studies in 1907–08 with the French composer Maurice Ravel helped him clarify the textures of his music and free it from Teutonic influences.
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Vaughan
Vaughan (/vɔːn/ VAWN; 2011 population 288,301) is a Canadian city in the Ontario region of York. It is north of Toronto. Vaughan was the fastest-growing municipality in Canada between 1996 and 2006, achieving a population growth rate of 80.2% according to Statistics Canada having nearly doubled in population since 1991. It is the fifth-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area, and the 17th largest city in Canada.
History
In the late pre-contact period, the Huron-Wendat people populated what is today Vaughan. The Skandatut ancestral Huron village overlooked the east branch of the Humber River (Pinevalley Drive) and was once home to approximately 2000 Huron in the sixteenth century. The site is located close to a Huron ossuary (mass grave) uncovered in Kleinburg in 1970, and one kilometre north of the Seed-Barker Huron site
The first European to pass through Vaughan was the French explorer Étienne Brûlé, who traversed the Humber Trail in 1615. However, it was not until the townships were created in 1792 that Vaughan began to see any settlements, as it was considered to be extremely remote and the lack of roads through the region made travel difficult. The township was named after Benjamin Vaughan, a British commissioner who signed a peace treaty with the United States in 1783.
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John Atkinson Grimshaw
John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was a Victorian-era artist, a "remarkable and imaginative painter" known for his city night-scenes and landscapes.
His early paintings were signed "JAG," "J. A. Grimshaw," or "John Atkinson Grimshaw," though he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw."
Life
John Atkinson Grimshaw was born 6 September 1836 in Leeds. In 1856 he married his cousin Frances Hubbard (1835–1917). In 1861, at the age of 24, to the dismay of his parents, he left his job as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway to become a painter. He first exhibited in 1862, mostly paintings of birds, fruit and blossom, under the patronage of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He became successful in the 1870s and rented a second home in Scarborough, which became a favourite subject.
Several of his children, Arthur E. Grimshaw (1864–1913), Louis H. Grimshaw (1870–1944), Wilfred Grimshaw (1871–1937) and Elaine Grimshaw (1877–1970) became painters.
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Thomas Tallis
Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 23 November 1585 by the Julian calendar still then in use in England) was an English composer who occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music, and is considered one of England's greatest composers. He is honoured for his original voice in English musicianship. No contemporary portrait of Tallis survives: that painted by Gerard Vandergucht (illustration), dates from 150 years after Tallis died, and there is no reason to suppose that it is a likeness. In a rare existing copy of his black letter signature, the composer spelled his last name "Tallys."
Life
Early years
Little is known about Tallis's early life, but there seems to be agreement that he was born in the early 16th century, toward the close of the reign of Henry VII. Little is also known about Tallis's childhood and his significance with music at that age. However, there are suggestions that he was a Child (boy chorister) of the Chapel Royal, St. James' Palace, the same singing establishment which he later joined as a Gentleman. His first known musical appointment was in 1532, as organist of Dover Priory (now Dover College), a Benedictine priory in Kent. His career took him to London, then (probably in the autumn of 1538) to Waltham Abbey, a large Augustinian monastery in Essex which was dissolved in 1540. Tallis was paid off and also acquired a volume and preserved it; one of the treatises in it, by Leonel Power, prohibits consecutive unisons, fifths, and octaves.
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14:55Vaughan Williams ~ The Lark Ascending
Vaughan Williams ~ The Lark AscendingVaughan Williams ~ The Lark Ascending
The World Rose: http://richardbrittain.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/the-world-rose An English classic, performed here by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with David Nolan on violin and Vernon Handley conducting. (Picture: "The Cornfield", 1826, by John Constable) -
17:02Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis {One of the best performances ever!!}
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis {One of the best performances ever!!}Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis {One of the best performances ever!!}
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, for 2 string orchestras (1910) BBC SO conducted by Andrew Davis BBC MM83 Watch the same performance here live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY Description by Mark Satola [-] The first performance of Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis took place at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral on September 6, 1910. The program was primarily devoted to Sir Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, which may partly account for its relatively cool reception. But its treatment, unusual for its day, of the unusual source material may also have puzzled the audience. Vaughan Williams encountered Tallis' hymn while editing The English Hymnal in 1906; it had first appeared in Archbishop Parker's Metrical Psalter in 1567, set to the words, "Why fumeth in fight?" The peculiar modal qualities of the tune, with its prominent flatted seventh, not only allowed the composer considerable harmonic freedom from the prevailing strictures of diatonicism and chromaticism, but also made possible the simultaneous sense of the ancient and the modern that is the work's hallmark. The Tallis Fantasia is scored for two string orchestras, one functioning as a "distant" choir, and a solo string quartet. After five widely spaced chords and a few bars in which the theme is fragmentarily mused upon by pizzicato basses, cellos, and swaying middle strings, arco, Tallis' hymn tune is stated in its original harmony by violas and celli with tremolando accompaniment by the high strings, and is then repeated in a setting that exploits all of the harmonic and contrapuntal facilities of a large string section. The string choirs then separate for a short section in which fragments of Tallis' theme in the first string orchestra are answered by distant chordal musings from the second orchestra. This serves not only as a brief development section but also introduces the solo string quartet, whose masterly counterpoint demonstrates Vaughan Williams' affinity for stringed instruments. As the rhapsodic meditation increases in intensity, the more modern aspects of the composition come into focus, with vaguely impressionistic harmonies mingling with the modal, leading to an impressive climax in which the two orchestras are unleashed in their full chordal power. The string quartet leads a final, luminous musing on Tallis' tune, and the Fantasia ends with a short coda in which the solo violin pronounces a brief benediction as the orchestra falls away. Publisher info: London: J. Curwen, 1921. Curwen Edition, 90722. Reprinted: Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999. Copyright: Public Domain - Non-PD EU -
16:17Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas TallisRalph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for Double Stringed Orchestra David Nolan, Leader London Philharmonic Orchestra Bryden Thomson ---------------------- -
1:01:37Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 2 (1913)
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 2 (1913)Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 2 (1913)
I. Lento - Allegro risoluto - 00:00 II. Lento - 15:10 III. Scherzo [Nocturne]: Allegro vivace - Andantino - 31:27 IV. Andante con moto - Maestoso alla marcia [quasi lento] - Allegro - Andantino ma sostenuto - Tempo primo - Allegro - Lento - Epilogue: Andante sostenuto - Lento - 42:34 Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in the Gloucestershire village of Down Ampney in 1872, the son of a clergyman. His ancestry on both his father's and mother's side was of some intellectual distinction. His father was descended from a family eminent in the law, while his maternal grandfather was a Wedgwood and his grandmother a Darwin. On the death of his father in 1875 the family moved to live with his mother's father at Leith Hill Place in Surrey. As a child Vaughan Williams learned the piano and the violin, and received a conventional upper middle class education at Charterhouse, after which he delayed entry to Cambridge, preferring instead to study at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Hubert Parry and Walter Parratt, later Master of the Queen's Musick, both soon to be knighted. In 1892 he took up his place at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read History, but took composition lessons from Charles Wood. After graduation in both History and Music, he returned to the Royal College, where he studied composition with Stanford, and, perhaps more significant, became a friend of a fellow-student, Gustav Holst. The friendship with Holst was to prove of great importance in frank exchanges of views on one another's compositions in the years that followed. In 1897 Vaughan Williams married and took the opportunity to visit Berlin, where he had lessons from Max Bruch and widened his musical experience. In England he turned his attention to the collection of folk-music in various regions of the country, an interest that materially influenced the shape of his musical language. In 1908 he went to Paris to take lessons, particularly in orchestration, from Ravel, and had by now begun to make a reputation for himself as a composer, not least with the first performance in 1910 of his first symphony, A Sea Symphony, setting words by Walt Whitman, and his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis in the same year. The even tenor of his life was interrupted by the war, when he enlisted at once in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a private. 1914 was also the year of the London Symphony and of his rhapsodic work for violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending. Three years later, after service in Salonica that seemed to him ineffective, he took a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery and was posted to France. There he was also able to make some use of his abilities as a musician. After the war Vaughan Williams returned to the Royal College of Music, now as a professor of composition, a position he retained until 1938. In these years he came to occupy a commanding position in the musical life of the country, with a series of compositions that seemed essentially English, the apparent successor of Elgar, although his musical language was markedly different. The war of 1939 brought the challenge of composition for the cinema, with notable scores for The 49th Parallel in 1940 and a number of other films, culminating in 1949 in his music for the film Scott of the Antarctic, the basis of the seventh of his symphonies. Other works of the last decade of his life included two more symphonies, the opera The Pilgrim's Progress, a violin sonata and concertos for harmonica and for tuba, remarkable adventures for an octogenarian. He remained active until his death in 1958. -
13:29Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England - Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" for String Orchestra and Harp Skaila Kanga, Harp London Philharmonic Orchestra Bryden Thomson ---------------------- -
35:24Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3 'Pastoral'
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3 'Pastoral'Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3 'Pastoral'
[Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with Alison Barlow, soprano on Classics for Pleasure.] Vaughan Williams composed his third symphony, 'A Pastoral Symphony', after he returned to England from active service as an officer in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the Western Front. Earlier in the war, he had served as a stretcher-bearer in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France and Salonika. 'A Pastoral Symphony' has been described as "A distillation of English Folk-Song" and, though at one level the work can be seen as a meditation on the English countryside and on the lives of those who lived and worked within it, at a deeper level it is a response to RVW's experiences during the war of 1914-18 and an expression of his grief and loss. It is 'war music' but of a very unusual kind. To accompany this darkly serene symphony, I've assembled a sequence of paintings which, I hope, reflect the music's constantly shifting mood and atmosphere. I haven't attempted to tell a story but to suggest certain ideas and associations which, to my ears, are prompted by the music. The country scenes represent not only Britain, but France, Belgium and the (in the scherzo) the United States.. I have chosen paintings by artists from The British Isles, France, Belgium, Italy, Canada and the USA: First movement: Works by Edmund Wilkins Waite, George Vicat Cole, Joseph Farquharson, Julien Dupre, Emil Claus, Henry Yeend King, Jules Breton and Theodore Rousseau. Second Movement: Works by Frederick Waters Watts, Henry Yeend King, Julien Dupre, Fortunino Matania, Emil Claus and Haydn Reynolds McKay. Third Movement: Thomas Moran, G V Cole, Albert Goodwin, Gustave Dore, John Arnesby Brown, John Fabian Carlson. Fourth Movement: Christopher Nevinson, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Rogers, GV Cole, Emil Claus, Julien Dupre, Ugo Matania, George Edmund Butler, H. Yeend King, Paul Nash, William Orpen, Alfred Bastien, -
45:51Ralph Vaughan Williams: "A London Symphony"
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "A London Symphony"Ralph Vaughan Williams: "A London Symphony"
[SEE BELOW FOR A LIST OF ARTISTS FEATURED] Vaughan Williams's great paean to the city of London, written shortly before the outbreak of the Great War of 1914-18. 1st movment: Lento - Allegro risoluto 00:00 2nd movement: Lento: 14:00 3rd movement: Scherzo 24:43 4th movement Andante con moto - Maestoso all marcia 32:28 The performance is by the London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Roger Norrington on a wonderful Decca disc which also includes beautiful performances of the Tallis Fantasia and the Serenade to Music. To accompany the music, I have used paintings of London which reflect the changing mood of the music as I hear it. Most of the paintings date from the early 20th century, though some are much later and a few somewhat earlier. They are listed below (work in progress: first three movements only. FIRST MOVEMENT 00:10 George Hyde Pownell (1876-1932) Tower Bridge 00:59 David Roberts (1796-1864) St Paul's From the West 01:54 Marcus Ford (1914-1989) Tower Bridge 02:53 Edward Seago (1910-1974) Thames Embankment 03:25 Charles William Wyllie (1853-1923) Tower Bridge 04:13 William Logsdail (1859-1944) Bank of England 04:28 Anon (circa 1850) Snow Hill, Holborn 04:58 Rose Maynard Barton (1856-1929) Trafalgar Square 05:11 " " " " " 05:21 " " " " Fleet Street 05:33 William Logsdail Royal Exchange 05:44 Rose Maynard Barton Wesminster 05:44 Anders Zorn (1860-1920) 'Impressions of London' 06:03 Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) Blackman Street 06:24 Rose Maynard Barton 06:44 John O'Connor (1830-1899) Pentonville Road & St Pancras 06:56 Donald Maxwell (1877-1936) Lots Road Power Station 07:12 Sir George Clausen (1852-1944) 'Where the Guns Are Made' 07:32 Luther Hooper (1849-1932) 'Nocturn' 08:10 George Hyde Pownall (1876-1932) London Bridge 08:38 " " " 09:33 Edward Seago 10:27 Atkinson Grimshaw Hampstead 10:43 Unknown Street scene 11:01 Unknown High Holborn? Signed 'Smith' 11:27 John O'Connor Detail from picture at 06.44 11:43 Atkinson Grimshaw 11:54 " " 12:06 " " The Strand 12:24 Rose Maynard Barton London Bridge and Parliament 12:39 George Hyde Pownall St Pauls 12:50 Charles Dixon (1872-1934) Shipping on the Thames 13:10 William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931) 'Toil Glitter Grime & Wealth' 13:34 Charles Dixon Greenwich SECOND MOVEMENT 14:00 John Atkinson Grimshaw 14:27 Abraham Pether (1756-1812) 14:53 John Atkinson Grimshaw 15:17 Unknown 15:38 John Atkinson Grimshaw 16:09 David Cressman (b1980) Battersea Power Station 16:31 George Hyde Pownall (1876-1932) 17:02 John Atkinson Grimshaw 17:26 Claude Monet (1840-1926) 18:00 John Atkinson Grimshaw 19:19 John Arnesby Brown (1866-1955) 19:48 Unknown 19:55 John Atkinson Grimshaw (sequence of 4 pictures) 21:34 Unknown 22:06 Frederick William Scarborough (1860-1930) 22:43 John Atkinson Grimshaw (sequence of 2 pictures) THIRD MOVEMENT Most pictures in this movement are paintings of Piccadilly and London's 'theatreland' at night by George Hyde Pownall. Other paintings featured are: 26:14 Unknown (Piccadilly Circus at night) 28:49 John Atkinson Grimshaw (Pall Mall) 30:32 John T Wood (Piccadilly and Regent Steet) 30:50 Giuseppe De Nittis (1846-1884) Westminster 31:21 John Atkinson Grimshaw: 2 pictures of Westminster -
36:00Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3 "Pastoral"
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3 "Pastoral"Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3 "Pastoral"
Roger Norrington conducts the London Philharmionic Orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams's 'Pastoral Symphony' which was completed and first performed in 1922. Its musical language is influenced by the English folk songs RVW collected in the early 1900s, though no actual songs are quoted in the work. It is one of RVW's most personal and intimate works and has come to be seen as a 'requiem' for those who suffered and died in the Great War of 1914-1918, in which Vaughan Williams served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and, later, as an officer in the Royal Artillery. A DECCA CD, coupled with the majesterial 5th Symphony in D. -
43:44Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major - BBC Proms 2012 (Andrew Manze conductors)
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major - BBC Proms 2012 (Andrew Manze conductors)Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major - BBC Proms 2012 (Andrew Manze conductors)
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Manze perform Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 5 in D major. One of Vaughan Williams's most tranquil works, begun just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Source Info: www.bbc.co.uk -
1:11:18R. Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
R. Vaughan Williams: A Sea SymphonyR. Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
1st movement: Begins at 00:00 2nd movement: Begins at 20:55 3rd movement: Begins at 33:00 4th movement: Begins at 40:57 Felicity Lott, Jonathan Summers, Bernard Haitink and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of RVW's "A Sea Symphony". Much of the artwork accompanying the music is contemporary with Walt Whitman (1819-1892), whose verse is set in this work, or with Vaughan Williams himself (1872-1958). Some of the art is by living artists, notably Geoff Hunt (British) and Christopher Blossom (American). Other artists whose work appears here: Andreas Achenbach Ivan Aivazovsky Albert Bierstadt Frederick Edwin Church Montague Dawson Paul Gaugin Winslow Homer Frederick Judd-Waugh Fitz Hugh Lane Roy Lang Edward Moran Albert Julius Olsson Edward Henry Potthast Joseph Mallord William Turner Charles Vickery Langley Walter
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1992, role: actor , character name: Councillor
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1988, role: actor , character name: 1st Preacher
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1988, role: actor , character name: Morgan
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Vaughan Williams ~ The Lark Ascending
The World Rose: http://richardbrittain.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/the-world-rose An English classic, performed here by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with David Nolan on violin and Vernon Handley conducting. (Picture: "The Cornfield", 1826, by John Constable)
published: 01 Sep 2010 -
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis {One of the best performances ever!!}
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, for 2 string orchestras (1910) BBC SO conducted by Andrew Davis BBC MM83 Watch the same performance here live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY Description by Mark Satola [-] The first performance of Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis took place at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral on September 6, 1910. The program was primarily devoted to Sir Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, which may partly account for its relatively cool reception. But its treatment, unusual for its day, of the unusual source material may also have puzzled the audience. Vaughan Williams encountered Tallis' hymn while editing The English Hymnal in 1906; it had first appeared in Archbishop Parker's Metrical Psalter in ...
published: 26 Jun 2015 -
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for Double Stringed Orchestra David Nolan, Leader London Philharmonic Orchestra Bryden Thomson ----------------------
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Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 2 (1913)
I. Lento - Allegro risoluto - 00:00 II. Lento - 15:10 III. Scherzo [Nocturne]: Allegro vivace - Andantino - 31:27 IV. Andante con moto - Maestoso alla marcia [quasi lento] - Allegro - Andantino ma sostenuto - Tempo primo - Allegro - Lento - Epilogue: Andante sostenuto - Lento - 42:34 Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in the Gloucestershire village of Down Ampney in 1872, the son of a clergyman. His ancestry on both his father's and mother's side was of some intellectual distinction. His father was descended from a family eminent in the law, while his maternal grandfather was a Wedgwood and his grandmother a Darwin. On the death of his father in 1875 the family moved to live with his mother's father at Leith Hill Place in Surrey. As a child Vaughan Williams learned the piano and the violin, ...
published: 06 Apr 2014 -
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England - Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" for String Orchestra and Harp Skaila Kanga, Harp London Philharmonic Orchestra Bryden Thomson ----------------------
published: 05 Jun 2013 -
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3 'Pastoral'
[Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with Alison Barlow, soprano on Classics for Pleasure.] Vaughan Williams composed his third symphony, 'A Pastoral Symphony', after he returned to England from active service as an officer in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the Western Front. Earlier in the war, he had served as a stretcher-bearer in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France and Salonika. 'A Pastoral Symphony' has been described as "A distillation of English Folk-Song" and, though at one level the work can be seen as a meditation on the English countryside and on the lives of those who lived and worked within it, at a deeper level it is a response to RVW's experiences during the war of 1914-18 and an expression of his grief and loss. It is 'war music' but o...
published: 05 Apr 2014 -
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "A London Symphony"
[SEE BELOW FOR A LIST OF ARTISTS FEATURED] Vaughan Williams's great paean to the city of London, written shortly before the outbreak of the Great War of 1914-18. 1st movment: Lento - Allegro risoluto 00:00 2nd movement: Lento: 14:00 3rd movement: Scherzo 24:43 4th movement Andante con moto - Maestoso all marcia 32:28 The performance is by the London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Roger Norrington on a wonderful Decca disc which also includes beautiful performances of the Tallis Fantasia and the Serenade to Music. To accompany the music, I have used paintings of London which reflect the changing mood of the music as I hear it. Most of the paintings date from the early 20th century, though some are much later and a few somewhat earlier. They are listed below (work in progress: first t...
published: 12 Jul 2013 -
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3 "Pastoral"
Roger Norrington conducts the London Philharmionic Orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams's 'Pastoral Symphony' which was completed and first performed in 1922. Its musical language is influenced by the English folk songs RVW collected in the early 1900s, though no actual songs are quoted in the work. It is one of RVW's most personal and intimate works and has come to be seen as a 'requiem' for those who suffered and died in the Great War of 1914-1918, in which Vaughan Williams served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and, later, as an officer in the Royal Artillery. A DECCA CD, coupled with the majesterial 5th Symphony in D.
published: 03 Dec 2016 -
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major - BBC Proms 2012 (Andrew Manze conductors)
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Manze perform Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 5 in D major. One of Vaughan Williams's most tranquil works, begun just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Source Info: www.bbc.co.uk
published: 18 Aug 2012 -
R. Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
1st movement: Begins at 00:00 2nd movement: Begins at 20:55 3rd movement: Begins at 33:00 4th movement: Begins at 40:57 Felicity Lott, Jonathan Summers, Bernard Haitink and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of RVW's "A Sea Symphony". Much of the artwork accompanying the music is contemporary with Walt Whitman (1819-1892), whose verse is set in this work, or with Vaughan Williams himself (1872-1958). Some of the art is by living artists, notably Geoff Hunt (British) and Christopher Blossom (American). Other artists whose work appears here: Andreas Achenbach Ivan Aivazovsky Albert Bierstadt Frederick Edwin Church Montague Dawson Paul Gaugin Winslow Homer Frederick Judd-Waugh Fitz Hugh Lane Roy Lang Edward Moran Albert Julius Olsson Edward Henry Po...
published: 10 Mar 2013
Vaughan Williams ~ The Lark Ascending
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:55
- Updated: 01 Sep 2010
- views: 2853575
The World Rose: http://richardbrittain.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/the-world-rose
An English classic, performed here by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Dav...
The World Rose: http://richardbrittain.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/the-world-rose
An English classic, performed here by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with David Nolan on violin and Vernon Handley conducting.
(Picture: "The Cornfield", 1826, by John Constable)
https://wn.com/Vaughan_Williams_~_The_Lark_Ascending
The World Rose: http://richardbrittain.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/the-world-rose
An English classic, performed here by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with David Nolan on violin and Vernon Handley conducting.
(Picture: "The Cornfield", 1826, by John Constable)
- published: 01 Sep 2010
- views: 2853575
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis {One of the best performances ever!!}
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 17:02
- Updated: 26 Jun 2015
- views: 271560
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, for 2 string orchestras (1910)
BBC SO conducted by Andrew Davis
BBC MM83
Watch the same performance here live: https://w...
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, for 2 string orchestras (1910)
BBC SO conducted by Andrew Davis
BBC MM83
Watch the same performance here live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY
Description by Mark Satola [-]
The first performance of Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis took place at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral on September 6, 1910. The program was primarily devoted to Sir Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, which may partly account for its relatively cool reception. But its treatment, unusual for its day, of the unusual source material may also have puzzled the audience.
Vaughan Williams encountered Tallis' hymn while editing The English Hymnal in 1906; it had first appeared in Archbishop Parker's Metrical Psalter in 1567, set to the words, "Why fumeth in fight?" The peculiar modal qualities of the tune, with its prominent flatted seventh, not only allowed the composer considerable harmonic freedom from the prevailing strictures of diatonicism and chromaticism, but also made possible the simultaneous sense of the ancient and the modern that is the work's hallmark.
The Tallis Fantasia is scored for two string orchestras, one functioning as a "distant" choir, and a solo string quartet. After five widely spaced chords and a few bars in which the theme is fragmentarily mused upon by pizzicato basses, cellos, and swaying middle strings, arco, Tallis' hymn tune is stated in its original harmony by violas and celli with tremolando accompaniment by the high strings, and is then repeated in a setting that exploits all of the harmonic and contrapuntal facilities of a large string section.
The string choirs then separate for a short section in which fragments of Tallis' theme in the first string orchestra are answered by distant chordal musings from the second orchestra. This serves not only as a brief development section but also introduces the solo string quartet, whose masterly counterpoint demonstrates Vaughan Williams' affinity for stringed instruments. As the rhapsodic meditation increases in intensity, the more modern aspects of the composition come into focus, with vaguely impressionistic harmonies mingling with the modal, leading to an impressive climax in which the two orchestras are unleashed in their full chordal power. The string quartet leads a final, luminous musing on Tallis' tune, and the Fantasia ends with a short coda in which the solo violin pronounces a brief benediction as the orchestra falls away.
Publisher info:
London: J. Curwen, 1921. Curwen Edition, 90722.
Reprinted:
Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999.
Copyright:
Public Domain - Non-PD EU
https://wn.com/Vaughan_Williams_Fantasia_On_A_Theme_By_Thomas_Tallis_One_Of_The_Best_Performances_Ever
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, for 2 string orchestras (1910)
BBC SO conducted by Andrew Davis
BBC MM83
Watch the same performance here live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY
Description by Mark Satola [-]
The first performance of Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis took place at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral on September 6, 1910. The program was primarily devoted to Sir Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, which may partly account for its relatively cool reception. But its treatment, unusual for its day, of the unusual source material may also have puzzled the audience.
Vaughan Williams encountered Tallis' hymn while editing The English Hymnal in 1906; it had first appeared in Archbishop Parker's Metrical Psalter in 1567, set to the words, "Why fumeth in fight?" The peculiar modal qualities of the tune, with its prominent flatted seventh, not only allowed the composer considerable harmonic freedom from the prevailing strictures of diatonicism and chromaticism, but also made possible the simultaneous sense of the ancient and the modern that is the work's hallmark.
The Tallis Fantasia is scored for two string orchestras, one functioning as a "distant" choir, and a solo string quartet. After five widely spaced chords and a few bars in which the theme is fragmentarily mused upon by pizzicato basses, cellos, and swaying middle strings, arco, Tallis' hymn tune is stated in its original harmony by violas and celli with tremolando accompaniment by the high strings, and is then repeated in a setting that exploits all of the harmonic and contrapuntal facilities of a large string section.
The string choirs then separate for a short section in which fragments of Tallis' theme in the first string orchestra are answered by distant chordal musings from the second orchestra. This serves not only as a brief development section but also introduces the solo string quartet, whose masterly counterpoint demonstrates Vaughan Williams' affinity for stringed instruments. As the rhapsodic meditation increases in intensity, the more modern aspects of the composition come into focus, with vaguely impressionistic harmonies mingling with the modal, leading to an impressive climax in which the two orchestras are unleashed in their full chordal power. The string quartet leads a final, luminous musing on Tallis' tune, and the Fantasia ends with a short coda in which the solo violin pronounces a brief benediction as the orchestra falls away.
Publisher info:
London: J. Curwen, 1921. Curwen Edition, 90722.
Reprinted:
Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999.
Copyright:
Public Domain - Non-PD EU
- published: 26 Jun 2015
- views: 271560
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 16:17
- Updated: 19 Mar 2012
- views: 1249661
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
for Double Stringed Orchestra
David Nolan, Leader
London Philharmonic Orchest...
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
for Double Stringed Orchestra
David Nolan, Leader
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson
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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
for Double Stringed Orchestra
David Nolan, Leader
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson
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- published: 19 Mar 2012
- views: 1249661
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 2 (1913)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:01:37
- Updated: 06 Apr 2014
- views: 118854
I. Lento - Allegro risoluto - 00:00
II. Lento - 15:10
III. Scherzo [Nocturne]: Allegro vivace - Andantino - 31:27
IV. Andante con moto - Maestoso alla marcia [q...
I. Lento - Allegro risoluto - 00:00
II. Lento - 15:10
III. Scherzo [Nocturne]: Allegro vivace - Andantino - 31:27
IV. Andante con moto - Maestoso alla marcia [quasi lento] - Allegro - Andantino ma sostenuto - Tempo primo - Allegro - Lento - Epilogue: Andante sostenuto - Lento - 42:34
Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in the Gloucestershire village of Down Ampney in 1872, the son of a clergyman. His ancestry on both his father's and mother's side was of some intellectual distinction. His father was descended from a family eminent in the law, while his maternal grandfather was a Wedgwood and his grandmother a Darwin. On the death of his father in 1875 the family moved to live with his mother's father at Leith Hill Place in Surrey. As a child Vaughan Williams learned the piano and the violin, and received a conventional upper middle class education at Charterhouse, after which he delayed entry to Cambridge, preferring instead to study at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Hubert Parry and Walter Parratt, later Master of the Queen's Musick, both soon to be knighted. In 1892 he took up his place at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read History, but took composition lessons from Charles Wood. After graduation in both History and Music, he returned to the Royal College, where he studied composition with Stanford, and, perhaps more significant, became a friend of a fellow-student, Gustav Holst. The friendship with Holst was to prove of great importance in frank exchanges of views on one another's compositions in the years that followed.
In 1897 Vaughan Williams married and took the opportunity to visit Berlin, where he had lessons from Max Bruch and widened his musical experience. In England he turned his attention to the collection of folk-music in various regions of the country, an interest that materially influenced the shape of his musical language. In 1908 he went to Paris to take lessons, particularly in orchestration, from Ravel, and had by now begun to make a reputation for himself as a composer, not least with the first performance in 1910 of his first symphony, A Sea Symphony, setting words by Walt Whitman, and his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis in the same year. The even tenor of his life was interrupted by the war, when he enlisted at once in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a private. 1914 was also the year of the London Symphony and of his rhapsodic work for violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending. Three years later, after service in Salonica that seemed to him ineffective, he took a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery and was posted to France. There he was also able to make some use of his abilities as a musician.
After the war Vaughan Williams returned to the Royal College of Music, now as a professor of composition, a position he retained until 1938. In these years he came to occupy a commanding position in the musical life of the country, with a series of compositions that seemed essentially English, the apparent successor of Elgar, although his musical language was markedly different. The war of 1939 brought the challenge of composition for the cinema, with notable scores for The 49th Parallel in 1940 and a number of other films, culminating in 1949 in his music for the film Scott of the Antarctic, the basis of the seventh of his symphonies. Other works of the last decade of his life included two more symphonies, the opera The Pilgrim's Progress, a violin sonata and concertos for harmonica and for tuba, remarkable adventures for an octogenarian. He remained active until his death in 1958.
https://wn.com/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams_Symphony_No._2_(1913)
I. Lento - Allegro risoluto - 00:00
II. Lento - 15:10
III. Scherzo [Nocturne]: Allegro vivace - Andantino - 31:27
IV. Andante con moto - Maestoso alla marcia [quasi lento] - Allegro - Andantino ma sostenuto - Tempo primo - Allegro - Lento - Epilogue: Andante sostenuto - Lento - 42:34
Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in the Gloucestershire village of Down Ampney in 1872, the son of a clergyman. His ancestry on both his father's and mother's side was of some intellectual distinction. His father was descended from a family eminent in the law, while his maternal grandfather was a Wedgwood and his grandmother a Darwin. On the death of his father in 1875 the family moved to live with his mother's father at Leith Hill Place in Surrey. As a child Vaughan Williams learned the piano and the violin, and received a conventional upper middle class education at Charterhouse, after which he delayed entry to Cambridge, preferring instead to study at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Hubert Parry and Walter Parratt, later Master of the Queen's Musick, both soon to be knighted. In 1892 he took up his place at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read History, but took composition lessons from Charles Wood. After graduation in both History and Music, he returned to the Royal College, where he studied composition with Stanford, and, perhaps more significant, became a friend of a fellow-student, Gustav Holst. The friendship with Holst was to prove of great importance in frank exchanges of views on one another's compositions in the years that followed.
In 1897 Vaughan Williams married and took the opportunity to visit Berlin, where he had lessons from Max Bruch and widened his musical experience. In England he turned his attention to the collection of folk-music in various regions of the country, an interest that materially influenced the shape of his musical language. In 1908 he went to Paris to take lessons, particularly in orchestration, from Ravel, and had by now begun to make a reputation for himself as a composer, not least with the first performance in 1910 of his first symphony, A Sea Symphony, setting words by Walt Whitman, and his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis in the same year. The even tenor of his life was interrupted by the war, when he enlisted at once in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a private. 1914 was also the year of the London Symphony and of his rhapsodic work for violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending. Three years later, after service in Salonica that seemed to him ineffective, he took a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery and was posted to France. There he was also able to make some use of his abilities as a musician.
After the war Vaughan Williams returned to the Royal College of Music, now as a professor of composition, a position he retained until 1938. In these years he came to occupy a commanding position in the musical life of the country, with a series of compositions that seemed essentially English, the apparent successor of Elgar, although his musical language was markedly different. The war of 1939 brought the challenge of composition for the cinema, with notable scores for The 49th Parallel in 1940 and a number of other films, culminating in 1949 in his music for the film Scott of the Antarctic, the basis of the seventh of his symphonies. Other works of the last decade of his life included two more symphonies, the opera The Pilgrim's Progress, a violin sonata and concertos for harmonica and for tuba, remarkable adventures for an octogenarian. He remained active until his death in 1958.
- published: 06 Apr 2014
- views: 118854
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 13:29
- Updated: 05 Jun 2013
- views: 457267
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England
- Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
for String Orchestra and Harp
Skaila Kanga, Harp
London Philharmonic Orche...
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England
- Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
for String Orchestra and Harp
Skaila Kanga, Harp
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson
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https://wn.com/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams_Five_Variants_Of_Dives_And_Lazarus
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England
- Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
for String Orchestra and Harp
Skaila Kanga, Harp
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson
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- published: 05 Jun 2013
- views: 457267
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3 'Pastoral'
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 35:24
- Updated: 05 Apr 2014
- views: 142121
[Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with Alison Barlow, soprano on Classics for Pleasure.]
Vaughan Williams composed his third ...
[Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with Alison Barlow, soprano on Classics for Pleasure.]
Vaughan Williams composed his third symphony, 'A Pastoral Symphony', after he returned to England from active service as an officer in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the Western Front. Earlier in the war, he had served as a stretcher-bearer in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France and Salonika.
'A Pastoral Symphony' has been described as "A distillation of English Folk-Song" and, though at one level the work can be seen as a meditation on the English countryside and on the lives of those who lived and worked within it, at a deeper level it is a response to RVW's experiences during the war of 1914-18 and an expression of his grief and loss. It is 'war music' but of a very unusual kind.
To accompany this darkly serene symphony, I've assembled a sequence of paintings which, I hope, reflect the music's constantly shifting mood and atmosphere. I haven't attempted to tell a story but to suggest certain ideas and associations which, to my ears, are prompted by the music. The country scenes represent not only Britain, but France, Belgium and the (in the scherzo) the United States..
I have chosen paintings by artists from The British Isles, France, Belgium, Italy, Canada and the USA:
First movement: Works by Edmund Wilkins Waite, George Vicat Cole, Joseph Farquharson, Julien Dupre, Emil Claus, Henry Yeend King, Jules Breton and Theodore Rousseau.
Second Movement: Works by Frederick Waters Watts, Henry Yeend King, Julien Dupre, Fortunino Matania, Emil Claus and Haydn Reynolds McKay.
Third Movement: Thomas Moran, G V Cole, Albert Goodwin, Gustave Dore, John Arnesby Brown, John Fabian Carlson.
Fourth Movement: Christopher Nevinson, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Rogers, GV Cole, Emil Claus, Julien Dupre, Ugo Matania, George Edmund Butler, H. Yeend King, Paul Nash, William Orpen, Alfred Bastien,
https://wn.com/Vaughan_Williams_Symphony_No_3_'Pastoral'
[Vernon Handley conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with Alison Barlow, soprano on Classics for Pleasure.]
Vaughan Williams composed his third symphony, 'A Pastoral Symphony', after he returned to England from active service as an officer in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the Western Front. Earlier in the war, he had served as a stretcher-bearer in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France and Salonika.
'A Pastoral Symphony' has been described as "A distillation of English Folk-Song" and, though at one level the work can be seen as a meditation on the English countryside and on the lives of those who lived and worked within it, at a deeper level it is a response to RVW's experiences during the war of 1914-18 and an expression of his grief and loss. It is 'war music' but of a very unusual kind.
To accompany this darkly serene symphony, I've assembled a sequence of paintings which, I hope, reflect the music's constantly shifting mood and atmosphere. I haven't attempted to tell a story but to suggest certain ideas and associations which, to my ears, are prompted by the music. The country scenes represent not only Britain, but France, Belgium and the (in the scherzo) the United States..
I have chosen paintings by artists from The British Isles, France, Belgium, Italy, Canada and the USA:
First movement: Works by Edmund Wilkins Waite, George Vicat Cole, Joseph Farquharson, Julien Dupre, Emil Claus, Henry Yeend King, Jules Breton and Theodore Rousseau.
Second Movement: Works by Frederick Waters Watts, Henry Yeend King, Julien Dupre, Fortunino Matania, Emil Claus and Haydn Reynolds McKay.
Third Movement: Thomas Moran, G V Cole, Albert Goodwin, Gustave Dore, John Arnesby Brown, John Fabian Carlson.
Fourth Movement: Christopher Nevinson, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Rogers, GV Cole, Emil Claus, Julien Dupre, Ugo Matania, George Edmund Butler, H. Yeend King, Paul Nash, William Orpen, Alfred Bastien,
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: "A London Symphony"
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- Duration: 45:51
- Updated: 12 Jul 2013
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Vaughan Williams's great paean to the city of London, written shortly before the outbreak of the Great War of 1914-18...
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Vaughan Williams's great paean to the city of London, written shortly before the outbreak of the Great War of 1914-18.
1st movment: Lento - Allegro risoluto 00:00
2nd movement: Lento: 14:00
3rd movement: Scherzo 24:43
4th movement Andante con moto - Maestoso all marcia 32:28
The performance is by the London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Roger Norrington on a wonderful Decca disc which also includes beautiful performances of the Tallis Fantasia and the Serenade to Music.
To accompany the music, I have used paintings of London which reflect the changing mood of the music as I hear it. Most of the paintings date from the early 20th century, though some are much later and a few somewhat earlier. They are listed below (work in progress: first three movements only.
FIRST MOVEMENT
00:10 George Hyde Pownell (1876-1932) Tower Bridge
00:59 David Roberts (1796-1864) St Paul's From the West
01:54 Marcus Ford (1914-1989) Tower Bridge
02:53 Edward Seago (1910-1974) Thames Embankment
03:25 Charles William Wyllie (1853-1923) Tower Bridge
04:13 William Logsdail (1859-1944) Bank of England
04:28 Anon (circa 1850) Snow Hill, Holborn
04:58 Rose Maynard Barton (1856-1929) Trafalgar Square
05:11 " " " " "
05:21 " " " " Fleet Street
05:33 William Logsdail Royal Exchange
05:44 Rose Maynard Barton Wesminster
05:44 Anders Zorn (1860-1920) 'Impressions of London'
06:03 Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) Blackman Street
06:24 Rose Maynard Barton
06:44 John O'Connor (1830-1899) Pentonville Road & St Pancras
06:56 Donald Maxwell (1877-1936) Lots Road Power Station
07:12 Sir George Clausen (1852-1944) 'Where the Guns Are Made'
07:32 Luther Hooper (1849-1932) 'Nocturn'
08:10 George Hyde Pownall (1876-1932) London Bridge
08:38 " " "
09:33 Edward Seago
10:27 Atkinson Grimshaw Hampstead
10:43 Unknown Street scene
11:01 Unknown High Holborn? Signed 'Smith'
11:27 John O'Connor Detail from picture at 06.44
11:43 Atkinson Grimshaw
11:54 " "
12:06 " " The Strand
12:24 Rose Maynard Barton London Bridge and Parliament
12:39 George Hyde Pownall St Pauls
12:50 Charles Dixon (1872-1934) Shipping on the Thames
13:10 William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931) 'Toil Glitter Grime & Wealth'
13:34 Charles Dixon Greenwich
SECOND MOVEMENT
14:00 John Atkinson Grimshaw
14:27 Abraham Pether (1756-1812)
14:53 John Atkinson Grimshaw
15:17 Unknown
15:38 John Atkinson Grimshaw
16:09 David Cressman (b1980) Battersea Power Station
16:31 George Hyde Pownall (1876-1932)
17:02 John Atkinson Grimshaw
17:26 Claude Monet (1840-1926)
18:00 John Atkinson Grimshaw
19:19 John Arnesby Brown (1866-1955)
19:48 Unknown
19:55 John Atkinson Grimshaw (sequence of 4 pictures)
21:34 Unknown
22:06 Frederick William Scarborough (1860-1930)
22:43 John Atkinson Grimshaw (sequence of 2 pictures)
THIRD MOVEMENT
Most pictures in this movement are paintings of Piccadilly and London's 'theatreland' at night by George Hyde Pownall. Other paintings featured are:
26:14 Unknown (Piccadilly Circus at night)
28:49 John Atkinson Grimshaw (Pall Mall)
30:32 John T Wood (Piccadilly and Regent Steet)
30:50 Giuseppe De Nittis (1846-1884) Westminster
31:21 John Atkinson Grimshaw: 2 pictures of Westminster
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[SEE BELOW FOR A LIST OF ARTISTS FEATURED]
Vaughan Williams's great paean to the city of London, written shortly before the outbreak of the Great War of 1914-18.
1st movment: Lento - Allegro risoluto 00:00
2nd movement: Lento: 14:00
3rd movement: Scherzo 24:43
4th movement Andante con moto - Maestoso all marcia 32:28
The performance is by the London Philharmonic conducted by Sir Roger Norrington on a wonderful Decca disc which also includes beautiful performances of the Tallis Fantasia and the Serenade to Music.
To accompany the music, I have used paintings of London which reflect the changing mood of the music as I hear it. Most of the paintings date from the early 20th century, though some are much later and a few somewhat earlier. They are listed below (work in progress: first three movements only.
FIRST MOVEMENT
00:10 George Hyde Pownell (1876-1932) Tower Bridge
00:59 David Roberts (1796-1864) St Paul's From the West
01:54 Marcus Ford (1914-1989) Tower Bridge
02:53 Edward Seago (1910-1974) Thames Embankment
03:25 Charles William Wyllie (1853-1923) Tower Bridge
04:13 William Logsdail (1859-1944) Bank of England
04:28 Anon (circa 1850) Snow Hill, Holborn
04:58 Rose Maynard Barton (1856-1929) Trafalgar Square
05:11 " " " " "
05:21 " " " " Fleet Street
05:33 William Logsdail Royal Exchange
05:44 Rose Maynard Barton Wesminster
05:44 Anders Zorn (1860-1920) 'Impressions of London'
06:03 Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) Blackman Street
06:24 Rose Maynard Barton
06:44 John O'Connor (1830-1899) Pentonville Road & St Pancras
06:56 Donald Maxwell (1877-1936) Lots Road Power Station
07:12 Sir George Clausen (1852-1944) 'Where the Guns Are Made'
07:32 Luther Hooper (1849-1932) 'Nocturn'
08:10 George Hyde Pownall (1876-1932) London Bridge
08:38 " " "
09:33 Edward Seago
10:27 Atkinson Grimshaw Hampstead
10:43 Unknown Street scene
11:01 Unknown High Holborn? Signed 'Smith'
11:27 John O'Connor Detail from picture at 06.44
11:43 Atkinson Grimshaw
11:54 " "
12:06 " " The Strand
12:24 Rose Maynard Barton London Bridge and Parliament
12:39 George Hyde Pownall St Pauls
12:50 Charles Dixon (1872-1934) Shipping on the Thames
13:10 William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931) 'Toil Glitter Grime & Wealth'
13:34 Charles Dixon Greenwich
SECOND MOVEMENT
14:00 John Atkinson Grimshaw
14:27 Abraham Pether (1756-1812)
14:53 John Atkinson Grimshaw
15:17 Unknown
15:38 John Atkinson Grimshaw
16:09 David Cressman (b1980) Battersea Power Station
16:31 George Hyde Pownall (1876-1932)
17:02 John Atkinson Grimshaw
17:26 Claude Monet (1840-1926)
18:00 John Atkinson Grimshaw
19:19 John Arnesby Brown (1866-1955)
19:48 Unknown
19:55 John Atkinson Grimshaw (sequence of 4 pictures)
21:34 Unknown
22:06 Frederick William Scarborough (1860-1930)
22:43 John Atkinson Grimshaw (sequence of 2 pictures)
THIRD MOVEMENT
Most pictures in this movement are paintings of Piccadilly and London's 'theatreland' at night by George Hyde Pownall. Other paintings featured are:
26:14 Unknown (Piccadilly Circus at night)
28:49 John Atkinson Grimshaw (Pall Mall)
30:32 John T Wood (Piccadilly and Regent Steet)
30:50 Giuseppe De Nittis (1846-1884) Westminster
31:21 John Atkinson Grimshaw: 2 pictures of Westminster
- published: 12 Jul 2013
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3 "Pastoral"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 36:00
- Updated: 03 Dec 2016
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Roger Norrington conducts the London Philharmionic Orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams's 'Pastoral Symphony' which was completed and first performed in 1922. I...
Roger Norrington conducts the London Philharmionic Orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams's 'Pastoral Symphony' which was completed and first performed in 1922. Its musical language is influenced by the English folk songs RVW collected in the early 1900s, though no actual songs are quoted in the work. It is one of RVW's most personal and intimate works and has come to be seen as a 'requiem' for those who suffered and died in the Great War of 1914-1918, in which Vaughan Williams served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and, later, as an officer in the Royal Artillery. A DECCA CD, coupled with the majesterial 5th Symphony in D.
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Roger Norrington conducts the London Philharmionic Orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams's 'Pastoral Symphony' which was completed and first performed in 1922. Its musical language is influenced by the English folk songs RVW collected in the early 1900s, though no actual songs are quoted in the work. It is one of RVW's most personal and intimate works and has come to be seen as a 'requiem' for those who suffered and died in the Great War of 1914-1918, in which Vaughan Williams served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and, later, as an officer in the Royal Artillery. A DECCA CD, coupled with the majesterial 5th Symphony in D.
- published: 03 Dec 2016
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major - BBC Proms 2012 (Andrew Manze conductors)
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- Duration: 43:44
- Updated: 18 Aug 2012
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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Manze perform Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 5 in D major.
One of Vaughan Williams's most tranquil wo...
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Manze perform Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 5 in D major.
One of Vaughan Williams's most tranquil works, begun just before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Source Info: www.bbc.co.uk
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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrew Manze perform Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 5 in D major.
One of Vaughan Williams's most tranquil works, begun just before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Source Info: www.bbc.co.uk
- published: 18 Aug 2012
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R. Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:11:18
- Updated: 10 Mar 2013
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1st movement: Begins at 00:00
2nd movement: Begins at 20:55
3rd movement: Begins at 33:00
4th movement: Begins at 40:57
Felicity Lott, ...
1st movement: Begins at 00:00
2nd movement: Begins at 20:55
3rd movement: Begins at 33:00
4th movement: Begins at 40:57
Felicity Lott, Jonathan Summers, Bernard Haitink and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of RVW's "A Sea Symphony". Much of the artwork accompanying the music is contemporary with Walt Whitman (1819-1892), whose verse is set in this work, or with Vaughan Williams himself (1872-1958). Some of the art is by living artists, notably Geoff Hunt (British) and Christopher Blossom (American). Other artists whose work appears here:
Andreas Achenbach
Ivan Aivazovsky
Albert Bierstadt
Frederick Edwin Church
Montague Dawson
Paul Gaugin
Winslow Homer
Frederick Judd-Waugh
Fitz Hugh Lane
Roy Lang
Edward Moran
Albert Julius Olsson
Edward Henry Potthast
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Charles Vickery
Langley Walter
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1st movement: Begins at 00:00
2nd movement: Begins at 20:55
3rd movement: Begins at 33:00
4th movement: Begins at 40:57
Felicity Lott, Jonathan Summers, Bernard Haitink and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of RVW's "A Sea Symphony". Much of the artwork accompanying the music is contemporary with Walt Whitman (1819-1892), whose verse is set in this work, or with Vaughan Williams himself (1872-1958). Some of the art is by living artists, notably Geoff Hunt (British) and Christopher Blossom (American). Other artists whose work appears here:
Andreas Achenbach
Ivan Aivazovsky
Albert Bierstadt
Frederick Edwin Church
Montague Dawson
Paul Gaugin
Winslow Homer
Frederick Judd-Waugh
Fitz Hugh Lane
Roy Lang
Edward Moran
Albert Julius Olsson
Edward Henry Potthast
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Charles Vickery
Langley Walter
- published: 10 Mar 2013
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Vaughan Williams ~ The Lark Ascending
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Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis {One of the best performances ever!!}
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, for 2 string orchestras (1910)
BBC SO conducted by ...
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Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis {One of the best performances ever!!}
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Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England
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Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 2 (1913)
I. Lento - Allegro risoluto - 00:00
II. Lento - 15:10
III. Scherzo [Nocturne]: Allegro viv...
published: 06 Apr 2014
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Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), England
- Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3 'Pastoral'
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: "A London Symphony"
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Vaughan Williams's great paean to the city of L...
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3 "Pastoral"
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major - BBC Proms 2012 (Andrew Manze conductors)
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R. Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
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2nd movement: Begins at 20:55
3rd movement: Begi...
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Sunderland took the lead in the 27th minute when a high ball was flicked on by James Vaughan and Grabban shrugged off the attentions of Christophe Zimmerman before calmly slotting the ball past Angus Gunn. The Black Cats doubled their lead on the hour thanks to McGeady's imperious effort ... ....
Grabban haunts Norwich as Sunderland get off the mark
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Sunderland took the lead in the 27th minute when a high ball was flicked on by James Vaughan and Grabban shrugged off the attentions of Christophe Zimmerman before calmly slotting the ball past Angus Gunn. The Black Cats doubled their lead on the hour thanks to McGeady's imperious effort ... ....
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Norwich 1-3 Sunderland: Lewis Grabban brace earns Black Cats victory
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Lewis Grabban came back to haunt his former club as Sunderland came away from Norwich with three points from an excellent 3-1 win ... A routine high ball forward was flicked on by James Vaughan and Grabban shrugged off the attentions of Christophe Zimmerman before calmly slotting the ball past Angus Gunn ... But it was Sunderland who scored next, making it 2-0 with a real beauty from McGeady ... ....
Lewis Grabban double fires Sunderland past his old side Norwich
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Lewis Grabban clips Canaries´ wings with match-winning brace for Black Cats
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Lewis Grabban came back to haunt his former club as Sunderland came away from Norwich with three points from an excellent 3-1 win ... Grabban scored twice for his new club ... 71' It's 3-0 ... A routine high ball forward was flicked on by James Vaughan and Grabban shrugged off the attentions of Christophe Zimmerman before calmly slotting the ball past Angus Gunn ... #ncfc ... Norwich looked dead and buried but pulled one back six minutes later ... ....
Cuisine's best chefs answer presentation questions
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