+nightpuppett1 I agree- it is dramatic and menacing. Very overbearing. The scrunchy chords in this piece are both ugly and beautiful. I feel Vaughan Williams achieves the same effect here as he did in the Pastoral Symphony- you don't feel completely comfortable while listening to this. Rather like "Mars" from Holst's Planets, there's an impending feeling of dread...
This version is from NAXOS, conducted by Kees Bakels. Excellent version; in the opening chords you can really feel the ice! Andre Previn also conducted this; his version, also excellent, accentuates the heroic aspects of the score. Bakels, on the other hand, never lets you forget the tragedy of the story. In his version, Nature is most definitely a predator, and is out to win.
+JohnBobergMusic Look into the video about Operation High Jump. Admiral Byrd was head of that covert mission. My Dad was on the USS Pine Island. RUclips has a video. Go to Old Antarctica Explorers on Facebook. You can also go to Antarctica for inspiration. Tourists do that too.
I'm very familiar with the Korngold Score, not to mention his Sea Hawk, Captain Blood or Robin Hood. He was a fine composer whose work was mostly in film for Warner Brothers. Vaughan Williams did film scores some of which approach the level of the symphony as does Scott of the Antarctic - which of course became Sinfonia Antartica - Symphony #7 in RVW's catalog.
Starcastle 2009 you would need to be informed of Erich Korngold's Symphony in F# which was first performed in 1945, dedicated to the memory of Roosevelt and based on his score for the 1939 film "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" starring Erroll Flynn and Bette Davis
Best Film Scores? (1) This one (2) Prokofiev "Alexander Nevsky" (3) Shostakovich "Hamlet" (4) Bliss "Things to Come" (5) Bernard Herrmann "Vertigo", "Citizen Kane" (6) Walton "Henry V", "Richard III" (7) Georges Auric "Passport to Pimlico", "Titfield Thunderbolt" (8) Allan Gray "I know where I'm going", "Canterbury Tale", "A Matter of Life and Death", "Colonel Blimp" (9) Arnold "Hobson's Choice" (10) Danny Elfman "The Simpsons", "Beetlejuice" Worst Film Scores? Titanic?
+Bottom Line There is a video of Operation High Jump. My Dad was 18 when he went in 1946 with Admiral Byrd on the US Pine Island. The video shows bracing leaks with wood on this mission. I have shared this video with the Old Antarctic Explorers on Facebook. Please join. There is a meeting once every 2 years somewhere in the USA for the OAEA, a different organization that includes scientists and children of explorers.
Last words impacted me for my whole life since I listened to them in 1981....
Always a favorite of mine!
The slide show really adds to it!
I watched the film this morning. Still brings a lump to my throat!
As far as I know the only true symphony ever made from the score of a motion picture. Vaughan Williams music redefines the word epic.
amazing composer! his music tells a story...
My mom was on the concert yesterday, and recommended this highly
I think Vaughn WIlliams' score for Scott of the Antarctic is one of the best film scores ever.
You get the feel for the place and imposing forces of nature that surround you.!
+nightpuppett1 I agree- it is dramatic and menacing. Very overbearing. The scrunchy chords in this piece are both ugly and beautiful. I feel Vaughan Williams achieves the same effect here as he did in the Pastoral Symphony- you don't feel completely comfortable while listening to this. Rather like "Mars" from Holst's Planets, there's an impending feeling of dread...
This version is from NAXOS, conducted by Kees Bakels. Excellent version; in the opening chords you can really feel the ice! Andre Previn also conducted this; his version, also excellent, accentuates the heroic aspects of the score. Bakels, on the other hand, never lets you forget the tragedy of the story. In his version, Nature is most definitely a predator, and is out to win.
Vaughan Williams' score was the biggest reason that the movie, "Scott of the Antarctic" was a success.
thank for the upload
amazing
The soundtrack for people who were braver than you and I.
Currently composing for a winter themed video-game... This is very inspirational for such a project!
+JohnBobergMusic Look into the video about Operation High Jump. Admiral Byrd was head of that covert mission. My Dad was on the USS Pine Island. RUclips has a video. Go to Old Antarctica Explorers on Facebook. You can also go to Antarctica for inspiration. Tourists do that too.
I'm very familiar with the Korngold Score, not to mention his Sea Hawk, Captain Blood or Robin Hood. He was a fine composer whose work was mostly in film for Warner Brothers. Vaughan Williams did film scores some of which approach the level of the symphony as does Scott of the Antarctic - which of course became Sinfonia Antartica - Symphony #7 in RVW's catalog.
Starcastle 2009 you would need to be informed of Erich Korngold's Symphony in F# which was first performed in 1945, dedicated to the memory of Roosevelt and based on his score for the 1939 film "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" starring Erroll Flynn and Bette Davis
can i find this symphony with the superscriptions in on you tube please its even more powerful with these in
My thoughts exactly.
I'm trying to find a complete recording, or at least a playlist, of this entire symphony. This only seems to be one of the five movements.
I think that happens in one of the new Ring Cycles making their appearance.
Best Film Scores?
(1) This one
(2) Prokofiev "Alexander Nevsky"
(3) Shostakovich "Hamlet"
(4) Bliss "Things to Come"
(5) Bernard Herrmann "Vertigo", "Citizen Kane"
(6) Walton "Henry V", "Richard III"
(7) Georges Auric "Passport to Pimlico", "Titfield Thunderbolt"
(8) Allan Gray "I know where I'm going", "Canterbury Tale", "A Matter of Life and Death", "Colonel Blimp"
(9) Arnold "Hobson's Choice"
(10) Danny Elfman "The Simpsons", "Beetlejuice"
Worst Film Scores?
Titanic?
What no Eric Wolfgangj Korngold? How about "The Sea Hawk"
Has an orchestra (with a harp) ever been to Antarctica?
and a full film crew didn't go with Scott either....what a dull place the world would be without imagination
+Bottom Line There is a video of Operation High Jump. My Dad was 18 when he went in 1946 with Admiral Byrd on the US Pine Island. The video shows bracing leaks with wood on this mission. I have shared this video with the Old Antarctic Explorers on Facebook. Please join. There is a meeting once every 2 years somewhere in the USA for the OAEA, a different organization that includes scientists and children of explorers.
they had an excellent photographer in Herbert Ponting; also some film of them hauling does exist.
So they named a continent after this music.
Charlotte - ditto the planets re holst🏂
They are numbered incorrectly. It is only your opinion......