@@DreamlessSleepwalker Not sure if I can name better, but certainly more famous; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Beethoven's 5th symphony, and his 5th piano concerto for that matter. Maybe Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony. Oh, and Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony. None have the power and majesty of this first symphony by Vaughn-Williams, but they are probably better known. Oh, and I was thinking something by Bach, one of his choral works perhaps, but Toccata and Fugue in Dm suffices quite well, not to mention the Magnificat in D, St. Matthew Passion, Mass in Bm.
@@mydogskips2 The way it comes back and is set up with a timpani role makes it the best opening imo. Also how you can see the motif throughout the piece.
Mine too. For a long time I would finish my day listening to this wonderful music. It was a moment I waited for all day. The last few minutes(10-12 minutes) would send me to heaven (not in a religious way but as a place of peace). I had this exact CD. Felicity Lott has the most wonderful voice.
"In 1908, Vaughan-Williams studied with Ravel, in Paris, for three months. On his return it was observed that his music now sounded as if he had been 'having tea with Debussy,' and he himself admitted to 'a back attack of French fever.' But whether or not his Paris venture was solely responsible for the change that now came over his music, one thing is certain: there was a change and it marked a definite step forward. Three works of outstanding importance prove the point: the song-cycle 'On Wenlock Edge (1909), 'The Sea Symphony' (1910), and the 'Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Thalis,' also 1910." Michael Hurd, Vaughan Williams, Faber & Faber, 1970, P. 33.
First time I hear this piece. This music is much more German than French. I would compare it to Brahms' German requiem rather than any symphonic work of Debussy. The orchestration and harmony are clearly of German tradition. Not French. Here and there you can detect some Romantic French influence. Not French Impressionism
Ravel later said of Vaughan Williams that he was one of this few students that LEARNED from him and didn’t merely copy him. That’s definitely high praise.
Thank you for posting the sheet music with this fine performance. I have no musical training, however watching the libretto and the notes unfold in synchrony with the performance intensified my comprehension and enjoyment of Vaughn Williams' "Sea Symphony." What a wonderful use of RUclips.
This is years later (sorry) but I can't encourage joining a community choir enough !! There's a broad range in skill levels, and I find that choirs tend to be an easier space to walk into as an amateur musician than, say, an orchestra where you have to first learn to play the instrument. Learning to cultivate your voice is a craft, but everyone has a voice. It's fun to follow along on a sheet music, but the joy of identifying your own part as well as the other parts you listen for when fitting yourself into the broader harmony is something I can't recommend enough to others to take part in. You recognize patterns in ways you may not have before. The song takes on a completely new dimension, and that still pales to the experience of being surrounded by others and hearing how your voice fits into the larger sound.
"Whose music is there of modern Englishmen, after Parry's, that we want to use on the great occasions of life except this? There is something in the noble climax of Toward the Unknown Region, in that basic rock over which the scum and froth of a great city float in the first movement of the London Symphony, in the surge of melodies in the first movement of the Sea Symphony, in the steadfast purpose of the many songs ... there is in these something that, like a course of Browning, corrects the Tennyson in us, and learned or unlearned, invigorates us all." A. H. Fox Strangways, Music and Letters Journal, April 1920. 100 years later, in the year 2020, these sentiments are still very true!
THE SEA SYMPHONY, Vaughan-Williams first great work, IMO, was then followed by the TALLIS FANTASIA, the latter of which has for the last 50+ years been my personal favorite of all of Vaughan-Williams music & of ALL music as well. Unusual to have one particular piece favored above all others but such is the case with me. The TALLIS FANTASIA has a transcendent beauty that has accompanied numerous personal experiences & perhaps this is the reason for my feelings regarding it. The first LP I purchased was a mistake, I was not at all familiar with the TALLIS FANTASIA at all, as the record store sent me this in place of something else I had ordered. Rarely has an accident of this nature been proved so fortuitous in my life. That recording was conducted by Sir John Barbirolli & I still have it in addition to numerous other versions on CD. I was still able relatively recently to play the LP although finding 33 RPM record players is a diminishing possibility these days.
I sang this 20 years ago right before a sailing trip in the Leeward Islands and was haunted by this piece the entire time. Which, I guess, is better than being haunted by sea monsters.
Ralph Vaughan Williams:1.Szimfónia ,,Tengeri Szimfónia" 1.Dal a tengerekről és hajókról (Andante maestoso - Allegro) 00:10 2.A parton éjszaka (Largo sostenuto) 20:58 3.Scherzo:Hullámok (Allegro brillante) 33:02 4.A felfedezők (Grave e molto adagio) 41:02 Felicity Lott-szoprán Jonathan Summers-bariton Londoni Filharmonikus Kórus és Zenekar Vezényel:Bernard Haitink
Generally I prefer the classical symphonies style and so the symphonies without choir but I've to admit that this work is one of the most original and also one of the best "recent" symphonies I've ever listen. Call me crazy but for me there is not such a big gap between this symphony and the Mahler second one.
An opulent and well polished score as the young Vaughn Williams was so skillful at doing. It was great to see the lyrics but I have mixed emotions that this has only the singers score with the orchestral parts being redacted just to a 2 stave keyboard part (with the exception of a brief trombone passage) though I understand why you've chosen to do it this way -not enough room on our computer screens to absorb all of that!
In a related much later work by RVW he uses the same basis of the first movement first subject ("And on it's heaving breast") as the basis of the theme of these variations- ruclips.net/video/zmAQiTGeuHI/видео.html - the theme also directly related to that of the flugel horn in the second movement of the Ninth Symphony - thus the Variations constitute a bridge returning us cyclically from the NINTH back to the SEA SYMPHONY. Enjoy - especially the utterly remarkable Variation IX Adagio.
why does EVERYONE of these classical music sites have to be destroyed by these ENDLESS arguments over religion? can't we all just enjoy the music,for heaven's sake? as for these repugnant commercials in the middle of movements,they are destroying any sense of enjoyment. I am tired of this and will go to tune in radio, from now on.
I don't know if anything can be done about the religious arguments, but get Ad block and/or ad block plus, it's a browser add-on/extension, they do a great job blocking ads on YT(and elsewhere). It's really a completely different site experience with/without them, and personally I couldn't use YT without ad block.
Everything has to be paid for. I guess. I like UT because of the interaction with other listeners/viewers. But the ads are a serious nuisance! BBC not brave enough to have interactive channels, but brave enough to have your arm twisted if you don’t pay the licence fee.
Dude, firstly, chill about the ads. Sometimes they arent even the channel owners fault. Corporations and artists can claim vids and put ads on them even though it's technically fair use. As for the religious arguments, just don't read the comments. Its not hard. Oh another thing, if ads bother you sooo much, go and buy a recording and the sheet music and support the classical music communities artists. If not, then stop complaining.
I love R V William's music but this symphony leaves me cringing a bit. It's not the orchestra music which is magnificent. It's the words which I can only describe as 'daft'. Cringe worthy and inane. I wish there was just an orchestra version like the Symphony Antarctica (7th Sym) without the singing and dialogue.
I suppose it all comes down to religious pretentiousness. All this inane "Oh my soul" and "Thee my God". I've certainly heard of far more greater American poets than Whitman and yes I can criticise as there is suppose to be a thing call 'free speech' Anyway, I much prefer the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. As for Whitman, nothing all that remarkable about his output.
Exactly. It works both ways. And here's another example of the inane words of this 'poem' . "Swiftly I swivel at the thought of God" Really ! This is suppose to be the poetry of the greatest American poet ! It's just religious pretentiousness. Thank goodness Williams overlays this drivel with his magnificent music.
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One of the best openings in music
Name a better opening.
@@DreamlessSleepwalker Not sure if I can name better, but certainly more famous; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Beethoven's 5th symphony, and his 5th piano concerto for that matter. Maybe Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony. Oh, and Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony. None have the power and majesty of this first symphony by Vaughn-Williams, but they are probably better known. Oh, and I was thinking something by Bach, one of his choral works perhaps, but Toccata and Fugue in Dm suffices quite well, not to mention the Magnificat in D, St. Matthew Passion, Mass in Bm.
@@mydogskips2 The way it comes back and is set up with a timpani role makes it the best opening imo. Also how you can see the motif throughout the piece.
It's a great opening, yes, but to be honest you'd be hard-pressed to convince me that any opening is better than Mahler's Eighth Symphony.
Lets not forget the O-Fortuna-Chorus at the beginning of Carl Orrfs Carmina Burana
What an absolute masterpiece this is?!... One of my favourite symphonies ever written.
Mine too. For a long time I would finish my day listening to this wonderful music. It was a moment I waited for all day. The last few minutes(10-12 minutes) would send me to heaven (not in a religious way but as a place of peace). I had this exact CD. Felicity Lott has the most wonderful voice.
"In 1908, Vaughan-Williams studied with Ravel, in Paris, for three months. On his return it was observed that his music now sounded as if he had been 'having tea with Debussy,' and he himself admitted to 'a back attack of French fever.' But whether or not his Paris venture was solely responsible for the change that now came over his music, one thing is certain: there was a change and it marked a definite step forward. Three works of outstanding importance prove the point: the song-cycle 'On Wenlock Edge (1909), 'The Sea Symphony' (1910), and the 'Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Thalis,' also 1910." Michael Hurd, Vaughan Williams, Faber & Faber, 1970, P. 33.
First time I hear this piece. This music is much more German than French. I would compare it to Brahms' German requiem rather than any symphonic work of Debussy. The orchestration and harmony are clearly of German tradition. Not French. Here and there you can detect some Romantic French influence. Not French Impressionism
Ravel later said of Vaughan Williams that he was one of this few students that LEARNED from him and didn’t merely copy him. That’s definitely high praise.
Reading the book right now lmao!
One year later and hundreds of times listening to it, this is still my favorite piece of music ever composed
Certainly IMO his greatest work and one of the greatest symphonies of all time, no argument.
Thank you for posting the sheet music with this fine performance.
I have no musical training, however watching the libretto and the notes unfold in synchrony with the performance intensified my comprehension and enjoyment of Vaughn Williams' "Sea Symphony."
What a wonderful use of RUclips.
This is years later (sorry) but I can't encourage joining a community choir enough !! There's a broad range in skill levels, and I find that choirs tend to be an easier space to walk into as an amateur musician than, say, an orchestra where you have to first learn to play the instrument. Learning to cultivate your voice is a craft, but everyone has a voice.
It's fun to follow along on a sheet music, but the joy of identifying your own part as well as the other parts you listen for when fitting yourself into the broader harmony is something I can't recommend enough to others to take part in. You recognize patterns in ways you may not have before. The song takes on a completely new dimension, and that still pales to the experience of being surrounded by others and hearing how your voice fits into the larger sound.
Thanks for both, musik and informations...its still my favourite symphony...😊🕊
Singing this in choir, thank you for the upload!
+Barnaby Bain-Williams My pleasure really!
"Whose music is there of modern Englishmen, after Parry's, that we want to use on the great occasions of life except this? There is something in the noble climax of Toward the Unknown Region, in that basic rock over which the scum and froth of a great city float in the first movement of the London Symphony, in the surge of melodies in the first movement of the Sea Symphony, in the steadfast purpose of the many songs ... there is in these something that, like a course of Browning, corrects the Tennyson in us, and learned or unlearned, invigorates us all." A. H. Fox Strangways, Music and Letters Journal, April 1920.
100 years later, in the year 2020, these sentiments are still very true!
Very True. After Sir Edward Elgar; as a virtuoso symphonist, Ralph Vaughan Williams is his true heir .
A true English symphony
I first sang this at university
Awesome experience
Man this sounds like a musical number more than anything. I LOVE IT.
Majestic!!! Bravo Vaughan Williams!!!
Yes
one of my favorite symphonies - thanks 😍
THE SEA SYMPHONY, Vaughan-Williams first great work, IMO, was then followed by the TALLIS FANTASIA, the latter of which has for the last 50+ years been my personal favorite of all of Vaughan-Williams music & of ALL music as well. Unusual to have one particular piece favored above all others but such is the case with me. The TALLIS FANTASIA has a transcendent beauty that has accompanied numerous personal experiences & perhaps this is the reason for my feelings regarding it. The first LP I purchased was a mistake, I was not at all familiar with the TALLIS FANTASIA at all, as the record store sent me this in place of something else I had ordered. Rarely has an accident of this nature been proved so fortuitous in my life. That recording was conducted by Sir John Barbirolli & I still have it in addition to numerous other versions on CD. I was still able relatively recently to play the LP although finding 33 RPM record players is a diminishing possibility these days.
Masterpiece
Bob Mortimer brought me here. Thank you Bob!
Lol. Yeah, I had to look this up when Bob mentioned it. Off to check the others he picked that I didn’t know.
An amazing choir piece of music - though sadly too little known in general, a "must have sung" for every (advanced) choir singer!
The words are really evocative and they certainly inspired VW!
So powerful! Love it
Beautiful
I love this piece
Monumental!
This symphony makes me think of the sea (oceans)
I sang this 20 years ago right before a sailing trip in the Leeward Islands and was haunted by this piece the entire time. Which, I guess, is better than being haunted by sea monsters.
Real
So epic :O
18:06 B A C H
The explorers begins at 41:06, not 40:00
41:02, not 41:06.
Nicely designed
Oh, wow.
Mystic... Wow
Long but good
The organ here made me say “oh my God” out loud.
Ralph Vaughan Williams:1.Szimfónia ,,Tengeri Szimfónia"
1.Dal a tengerekről és hajókról (Andante maestoso - Allegro) 00:10
2.A parton éjszaka (Largo sostenuto) 20:58
3.Scherzo:Hullámok (Allegro brillante) 33:02
4.A felfedezők (Grave e molto adagio) 41:02
Felicity Lott-szoprán
Jonathan Summers-bariton
Londoni Filharmonikus Kórus és Zenekar
Vezényel:Bernard Haitink
Thanks.
friggin jumpscare at the beginning
yep... :-)
My choir is singing this (online now) and my parakeets don't like our entrance either. :D
I think it’s pretty cool
Hamerik opened his 7th Symphony with singing at about the same time.
Thank you!
Generally I prefer the classical symphonies style and so the symphonies without choir but I've to admit that this work is one of the most original and also one of the best "recent" symphonies I've ever listen. Call me crazy but for me there is not such a big gap between this symphony and the Mahler second one.
You're crazy
yes
Might want to double-check the timestamp for the last movement
This symphony it's like a kids song on steroids.
Cool
An opulent and well polished score as the young Vaughn Williams was so skillful at doing. It was great to see the lyrics but I have mixed emotions that this has only the singers score with the orchestral parts being redacted just to a 2 stave keyboard part (with the exception of a brief trombone passage) though I understand why you've chosen to do it this way -not enough room on our computer screens to absorb all of that!
3:31/3:48
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10:09
11:27
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28:04
1:03:18
Do you have a link to the score reduction used in this video please? Thanks.
In a related much later work by RVW he uses the same basis of the first movement first subject ("And on it's heaving breast") as the basis of the theme of these variations- ruclips.net/video/zmAQiTGeuHI/видео.html - the theme also directly related to that of the flugel horn in the second movement of the Ninth Symphony - thus the Variations constitute a bridge returning us cyclically from the NINTH back to the SEA SYMPHONY. Enjoy - especially the utterly remarkable Variation IX Adagio.
the opening makes me laugh every time
Why ?
me too... for no reason at all. It's big and beautiful but also funny for some reason
0:19, 2:22
why does EVERYONE of these classical music sites have to
be destroyed by these ENDLESS
arguments over religion? can't
we all just enjoy the music,for
heaven's sake? as for these
repugnant commercials in
the middle of movements,they
are destroying any sense of
enjoyment. I am tired of this
and will go to tune in radio,
from now on.
I don't know if anything can be done about the religious arguments, but get Ad block and/or ad block plus, it's a browser add-on/extension, they do a great job blocking ads on YT(and elsewhere). It's really a completely different site experience with/without them, and personally I couldn't use YT without ad block.
Everything has to be paid for. I guess. I like UT because of the interaction with other listeners/viewers. But the ads are a serious nuisance! BBC not brave enough to have interactive channels, but brave enough to have your arm twisted if you don’t pay the licence fee.
Dude, firstly, chill about the ads. Sometimes they arent even the channel owners fault. Corporations and artists can claim vids and put ads on them even though it's technically fair use.
As for the religious arguments, just don't read the comments. Its not hard.
Oh another thing, if ads bother you sooo much, go and buy a recording and the sheet music and support the classical music communities artists. If not, then stop complaining.
52:53 Twosetviolin anyone?
Yaaaaassss you found the spot, couldn't find where twoset played myself!
@@jorgefraile218 ur welcome! 😊
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I love R V William's music but this symphony leaves me cringing a bit. It's not the orchestra music which is magnificent. It's the words which I can only describe as 'daft'. Cringe worthy and inane. I wish there was just an orchestra version like the Symphony Antarctica (7th Sym) without the singing and dialogue.
Yes because Walt Whitman, arguably the greatest American poet, needs your criticism.
I suppose it all comes down to religious pretentiousness. All this inane "Oh my soul" and "Thee my God". I've certainly heard of far more greater American poets than Whitman and yes I can criticise as there is suppose to be a thing call 'free speech' Anyway, I much prefer the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. As for Whitman, nothing all that remarkable about his output.
Basil Brush oh so you hate it because Whitman was using his own freedom of speech to express religion? Makes sense
Exactly. It works both ways. And here's another example of the inane words of this 'poem' . "Swiftly I swivel at the thought of God" Really ! This is suppose to be the poetry of the greatest American poet ! It's just religious pretentiousness. Thank goodness Williams overlays this drivel with his magnificent music.
It's the opposite of religious pretentiousness. It's humbleness
Wow, the most worstest awfullest lyrics ever penned, but the music? OMG!
I mean, they’re Walt Whitman’s words, but okay...
No…..too noisy, not enjoyable
I didn’t know music could be too noisy…
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