I visited St Lawrence church in Ludlow today was so lucky to hear the Ludlow Orchestra rehearsal for a concert later today starting with this piece of music which sounded superb with the church acoustics.
This is extraordinary brilliant, inventive music by a master orchestrator.. Vaughan Williams is a wizard wirth the orchestra. This is right u there withe the Tallis Fantasia. Ive always loved 'The Wasps;. :-)
I am really enjoying your channel. Thank you very much for posting these marvelous pieces of orchestral music. Hope you be able to get this work going on for longer as possible. Cheers
Wow, absolutely mesmerizing since the first listen. Discovered Vaughan Williams this year and almost everything I listened of him has been great. Such a pleasant surprise!
I don't just hear it in my head...it's right there! :D Stravinsky was heavily inspired by Ravel at the time of writing Firebird (1910), and Ravel was Vaughan Williams' teacher in 1908. So that's the missing link. Note that The Wasps was composed before Firebird (1909) but published in 1914, so Stravinsky couldn't have cribbed from it like he did with Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov and others...
VW did write film scores much later in his career (most famously Scott of the Antarctic, aka Sinfonia Antarctica). Pieces like this obviously stood him in good stead...
Does anyone else feel like 2:45 through 3:15 sounds like something right out of Holst's Planets?? I swear the french horn and violin solos sound like they were taken from Venus. Is this a direct inspiration or a vague similarity?
It wouldn't be surprising to find similarities in their music. They were lifelong good friends, they knew and discussed each other's music, and both were influenced by English folk music. So even though they are rather different (and both great) composers, it makes sense that there are things in common.
To me, as an English person, it sounds very traditionally English - as does all of this piece, really. Given that it was written in 2009, Disney films may have taken inspiration from The Wasps and possibly commissioned similar pieces to be used on soundtracks, but not the other way round!
I visited St Lawrence church in Ludlow today was so lucky to hear the Ludlow Orchestra rehearsal for a concert later today starting with this piece of music which sounded superb with the church acoustics.
This is extraordinary brilliant, inventive music by a master orchestrator.. Vaughan Williams is a wizard wirth the orchestra. This is right u there withe the Tallis Fantasia. Ive always loved 'The Wasps;. :-)
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Pure genius. I love how rvw weaves the two themes together. Breathtaking, poignant.
The sound quality, as well as the orchestra, sounds amazing! I especially like being able to follow the sheet music.
Full of such beauty and passion.
some beautiful horn solos in there
One of the numerous masterpieces of Ralph V.W. Very good interpretation !
5:10 mark feels me such peace. so grateful for this channel for introducing me to Williams. first piece of his I heard and what a piece
listened to this on Wisconsin public radio and it was a banger
The tune starting at 3:17 has to be one of the loveliest and most romantic ever written.
OMG I soooooo want to play this in orchestra!!!!!
Thank you so much for this plus the score. Fabulous!
I am really enjoying your channel. Thank you very much for posting these marvelous pieces of orchestral music. Hope you be able to get this work going on for longer as possible. Cheers
We are playing this in marching band this year
Wow, absolutely mesmerizing since the first listen. Discovered Vaughan Williams this year and almost everything I listened of him has been great. Such a pleasant surprise!
3:41-4:07 is so beautiful
This is awesome
WOW! VW's piece that doesn't end with niente? I haven't seen that in a long time.
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Brilliant!
Does anybody can hear Stravinsky's "Firebird" in their heads at 0:40 - 0:48? :D
I don't just hear it in my head...it's right there! :D
Stravinsky was heavily inspired by Ravel at the time of writing Firebird (1910), and Ravel was Vaughan Williams' teacher in 1908. So that's the missing link. Note that The Wasps was composed before Firebird (1909) but published in 1914, so Stravinsky couldn't have cribbed from it like he did with Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov and others...
Ooooh, that explains everything, thank you :D
Revelation. Thank you
It sounds like film music but better (no offense to film music)
It was actually used for a British Railways information film "Fully Fitted Freight" the Bristol Leeds fast express freight
It's also the main music in the movie 'Flirting"
VW did write film scores much later in his career (most famously Scott of the Antarctic, aka Sinfonia Antarctica). Pieces like this obviously stood him in good stead...
That's because a lot of film composers were influenced and inspired by late 19th century and early 20th century classical composers
That is an insult to the piece
This piece was written in 1909 -- well before Stravinsky's Firebird (1910) and Holst's The Planets (1918).
And much worse than both of those.
@@FreakieFan you deaf man
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I disagree. This is awesome music.
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The overture is great. The rest is awful. Especially compared to masterpieces like Firebird and Planets
@@FreakieFan They are all masterpieces.
Does anyone else feel like 2:45 through 3:15 sounds like something right out of Holst's Planets?? I swear the french horn and violin solos sound like they were taken from Venus. Is this a direct inspiration or a vague similarity?
It wouldn't be surprising to find similarities in their music. They were lifelong good friends, they knew and discussed each other's music, and both were influenced by English folk music. So even though they are rather different (and both great) composers, it makes sense that there are things in common.
Vaughan and Holst were close friends who critiqued each other’s music and inspired each other. That’s likely some Holst inspiration there
@@bthurgood6664 You can't allude to something that doesn't yet exist.
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Great overture
Could you do some of Vaughan Williams’ Symphonies?
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7:40-7:53 sounds like it could be Disney music
That's the "hate" in my love-hate relationship with Vaughan-Williams
To me, as an English person, it sounds very traditionally English - as does all of this piece, really. Given that it was written in 2009, Disney films may have taken inspiration from The Wasps and possibly commissioned similar pieces to be used on soundtracks, but not the other way round!
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Who cares it’s beautiful and uplifting.
Hi! I always love your videos. Can you make varese's ionisation and poem electronique etc.?
For some reason I always think of Spitfires when I hear this.....
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I know this from a British Transport Films production; can anyone remember which one?
It's "Fully Fitted Freight": ruclips.net/video/sQWp9DMZV74/видео.html
@@dkbmaestrorules Thank you!
@@dkbmaestrorules Thank you!
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Is there a technical problem on this? The tempo is far too fast.
This tempo is no different than most other recordings of this piece, at least that I've heard.
@@whatafreakinusername This is the CORRECT TEMPO, Many less able orchestras, deliberately slow it down.
A wonderful piece of music. Too bad all of the other movements of this incidental theatre music is truly earsplittingly awful.
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