Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"

[oaklegh]

Ricky sent me

[ty60509rocks]

Where did you get the pictures they are pretty!!!

Love The Song To!!

[HenryOrientJnr]

@ty60509rocks Glad you like it. The pictures are from my vacation in Tobermory on the tip of the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario (plus Flower Pot Island and Manitoulin Island). A beautiful part of the country.

[davemarshall2963]

Vaughan Williams and Butterworth were friends prior to Butterworth's death in the trenches in 1916 and they collected and orchestralised folk songs this is why so many have commented that this is like another song

[zedwardson]

If you Could Hie to Kolob uses the same music, lovely song.

[parkourmormon]

I wish i could Hie to Kolob

[xanderthemanonthe]

what strange ugly houses.....

[dsgfsdfsdfs]

I wish I could Hie to Kolob

[tacfoley]

I think you should point out that the Tobermory here is the one in Canada, not the one in scotland.

And BTW, the main theme is a version of the Irish folk-song, 'The Star of the County Down'.

tac

[rrchapman]

Actually, the main theme for this one is "Kingsfold"--which is almost the same as "Star of the County Down." There are minor differences, but very close.

Evangelical Lutheran Worship (latest hymnal from the ELCA) has both tunes.

[zmcleod]

Mormons took the music from this song and put words to it. You should check out "If you Could Hie to Kolob" - same song but with words. ... Just thought it was interesting to note.

[Moonburger218]

Dives and Lazarus is also the "C" section of the first movement of the English Folk Song Suite. A beautiful piece of music, I loved the images that went with it.

[guilty168]

great music, but any chance of getting the last variants? because i'd love to hear that bit.

[soemad5]

my school orchestra is going to play it at our end-of-tri concert (the theme and all 5 variants) so ill see if i can get a recording of it and post it

[CILDAD]

Thankyou for the post. I enjoyed both the music and the images.

I was hoping the ending of the piece of music was going to be played. Maybe next time!

[aldebussy]

The 5 Browns arranged this for the piano. It's a must-hear.

[2jay2jay2]

this is one of my favorite... lovely

[blackheaven1]

Powerful. Just if you could have that one moment back where you did something bad to someone else.

[songblam]

too gimicky for this piece of music

[Harpomegranate]

yay! im glad theres a harp!!! and nice pictures to go with it.

[P00p00face1234]

This really makes me miss my Orchestra, we played this once

[jaloysiusm8]

Thanks...I think this is my single favorite piece of music. Stately, somehow reassuring, and capable of making you feel you're on the verge of understanding something tremendous.

I love the Neville Marriner version as well. He takes it a bit more slowly.

Lovely photos, too.

[hedwigamarie]

I love the Marriner version as well! This is one of my favorite Vaughan Williams' pieces besides the Tallis Fantasia and The Norfolk Rhapsody.

[farliesbirthday]

These so English composers, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Butterworth etc, all seem to have a touch of the Celtic too - a tendency of being elegiac, of yearning for what has gone, or for what can never be.

[HenryOrientJnr]

I think you have something there. There is indeed a deep strain of melancholy in English music of this era that I feel a particular affinity for. It is odd that music can have a national character, but it is undeniably true.

[farliesbirthday]

Yes, I sometimes wonder whether, at some deep psychic level, being sensitive people, they sensed the coming catastrophe, - the Great War, or am I being retrospective?

[astumpyfrizz2]

Give me the whole piece please!!! I love this song but would like to listen to the whole thing!!!

[yepimhere]

this music really goes along with slideshows of the past like slideshows of a graduate of them growing up.

[Seroloth]

Vaughan Williams is a genius composer! This music touches the soul!!!!

[angelicmelody404]

i love this music!!!