It's a very interesting look at the composer a couple of years before he began his decade-long project of collecting and preserving British folksongs, which was the pathway to developing an individual style: "[M]any young composers make the mistake of imagining they can be universal without at first having been local."
Check out his Symphony No 1 “A Sea Symphony” and No. 2 “A London Symphony.” Then there are other choral works like his Mass in G Minor, Bénédicité, Sancta Civitas, Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Serenade to Music, Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Greensleeves... So many and all glorious. He is perhaps my most favorite composer (tied with Mahler). I love n’est the recordings with the King’s College Choir directed by David Willcocks for the choral pieces. Sir Adrian Boult for the orchestral works.
RVW had yet to study with Ravel but, even so, this sterling earlyish work seems to be moving in a Russian/Slavonic direction (a style which had, of course, influenced the French Master considerably). I agree with Chris Breemer's comment about the Wagnerian horns at 10:30 but elsewhere the brass does sound Russian, to my ears at least. The triumphal climax is rather impressive....
If I wasn’t aware of the composer I wouldn’t have guessed RVW but neither would I guess Wagner though there are of course a few references but it’s definitely not overall his style.
If only we could press the "LIKE" (thumbs up) button a hundred thousand times... Thank you, Rodders, for presenting this to an adoring RVW audience.
Thank you Rod, very beautiful.
Never heard this before, thanks so much for the upload. Wonderful work, a very different RVW from what we usually hear and I absolutely love it.
The opening is SUBLIME.
Así es
Being only a lay music lover, I'd say VW's passion of youth lived on from this work to the end.
It's a very interesting look at the composer a couple of years before he began his decade-long project of collecting and preserving British folksongs, which was the pathway to developing an individual style: "[M]any young composers make the mistake of imagining they can be universal without at first having been local."
Oh this is just splendid!
Excelente obra. Gracias por compartir.
I keep finding VW stuff I've never heard of...without RUclips I'd probably only be aware of the Cello concerto in D Minor and the Enigma Variations.
@@271250cl Sorry, I was getting him mixed up with Elgar! I must go back to music school.
Check out his Symphony No 1 “A Sea Symphony” and No. 2 “A London Symphony.” Then there are other choral works like his Mass in G Minor, Bénédicité, Sancta Civitas, Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Serenade to Music, Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Greensleeves... So many and all glorious. He is perhaps my most favorite composer (tied with Mahler). I love n’est the recordings with the King’s College Choir directed by David Willcocks for the choral pieces. Sir Adrian Boult for the orchestral works.
One more: Symphony No. 7: Sinfonia Antarctica. Powerful.
Try Colin's site if you haven't already. He's uploaded a lot of material
@@Londonfogey He would have been flattered to have been confused with Elgar.
Enchanting.
RVW had yet to study with Ravel but, even so, this sterling earlyish work seems to be moving in a Russian/Slavonic direction (a style which had, of course, influenced the French Master considerably). I agree with Chris Breemer's comment about the Wagnerian horns at 10:30 but elsewhere the brass does sound Russian, to my ears at least. The triumphal climax is rather impressive....
One can hear various influences in this early work of RVW including Elgar’s
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same characteristic passion/feeling even here. 🤗
❤️VW
Hello Mr.Rodders, is it possible to download the complete album? Many thanks.
Ralph Vaughan Williams:Hősi elégia és Diadal-epilógus
BBC Koncertzenekar
Vezényel:John Wilson
An English equivalent to Berlioz's Symphonie funèbre et triomphale?
Raith at his finest…
From 10:30 or so I thought for a moment I was listening to Wagner :)
If I wasn’t aware of the composer I wouldn’t have guessed RVW but neither would I guess Wagner though there are of course a few references but it’s definitely not overall his style.
Is this quoted in the mines of Moria?
8:02 16:42 18:46
A bit Wagnerian here and there, 4 sure.
"Ah you young people who despise Wagner" the great man later complained.
Yes, and it is such a blessing to have such Wagnerian compositions! ☺️