Ralph Vaughan Williams - Linden Lea

[silharima]

What an exquisite version, and the photo show accompanying it is the crown conferred on this gorgeous musical arrangement. This song and I are very old friends.

[jej21155]

The tempo, phrasing and expression are superb.... have to know who is singing!!

[disneylandman66]

@jej21155 You can find a CD called "Early One Morning" by Edward Higginbottom and the Choir of New College, Oxford

[jej21155]

If you please = which group is singing? Who recorded this version?

[kamadafuji]

Thanks for posting this - it is so very lovely

[MacX2k8]

SHIT!!!!!



[mollieeverest]

@lydiard91 is right the origanel version linden lea by vaughan williams was indeed a piece for solo voice !

i think that it sounds better with 'choral music'!

[jd7x7jd]

Thanks. Absolutely beautiful.

[KistoDreams]

Lovely video. You should make more, but I fear some of the comments on here may have put you off. :(

[halcyonacoustic]

Such anger in the comments. How can you even be angry listening to this?

[kingsott]

TheClassicCritic Many thanks for the download. Poet William Barnes wrote Linden Lea in dialect & I would like to hear a native rendering of this haunting song.

[superjonny1231]

Beautiful! :)

[NonInflatable]

Amazing how a beautiful piece of music like this can inspire all the baleful, hate-filled responses we see below.

And there I was, thinking it's a troubled world we live in, redeemed only by glorious music!

[JTB1956]

@NonInflatable Signs of the times I suppose. The anonymity of electronic "conversation" seems to make us less considerate and more coarse. We quickly send through the ether that which is not fit for a johnny-house wall. The best advice I ever received was..."always be kinder than you have to be"

[JTB1956]

@JTB1956 Jeez......Nevermind........

[ted2321]

What a wonderful piece of choral music.Whether or not it was originally written for a choir is irrelevant because it worked perfectly and was a gorgeous recording complemented perfectly by those beautiful autumnal,pastoral images.

A hugely restful and enjoyable video.Thankyou so much for posting.

[1627xijiexien]

i sang this song during my choir

[Lydiard91]

I'm sorry, but your description is so inaccurate. Firstly, it was not written as a choral piece, only for a single voice, and secondly, it is not actually a folk song.

[TheClassicalCritic]

@Lydiard91 I'm sorry but you are wrong. The original version, Linden Lea by Vaughan Williams was indeed a piece for solo voice but as you can hear very clearly in the video he also arranged it for a choir, therefore it is a piece of "choral music" undisputedly. I, at no point in my description said it was originally choral music. And secondly, the full title of this piece is "Linden Lea, A Dorset Folk Song," as named by RVW himself, he was well known for his inspiration from English folk music.

[Lydiard91]

@TheClassicalCritic The first folk-song that inspired him directly was 'Bushes and Briars' in 1903 in Essex. Linden Lea was a poem by Barnes, it was not a folk-song.

[TheClassicalCritic]

@Lydiard91 I don't think you seem to have any understanding of Vaughan Williams' Work whatsoever. It is pratically all based on or inspired by folk music! There are so many folk features to be found here, pentatonicism, simple melody and harmony, a subject matter of rural landscape. By saying it isn't a folk song you are not only arguing against me but also the composer. I will repeat, the full title of this piece is "Linden Lea, A Dorset FOLK SONG," as named by RVW himself!

[MrDavidCrosbie]

@TheClassicalCritic Nobody can deny that Vaughn Williams drew a great deal from folk music. He collected folk songs, he arranged folk songs, he composed works that combined or incorporated folk songs. But this is not a folk song. It's a dialect poem translated into Standard English resulting in a text that is nothing like a folk song text. VW's setting is folk-like, and might have even have been absorbed into the folk tradition if the words had been more compatible. A lovely art song, though.

[colonelmunch]

@Lydiard91 Your pennance is to eat humble pie morning noon and night for a whole month, backdated to 1st June 2011.

[Lydiard91]

@colonelmunch ... do you mean 'penance'?

[colonelmunch]

@Lydiard91 No, I mean for you to eat pie for eternity, now get eating and be thankit.

[colonelmunch]

@Lydiard91 No, I mean for you to eat pie for eternity, now get eating and be thankit.

[Lydiard91]

@colonelmunch ... Why don't you speak to me once you've actually got a grasp of the English language...

[colonelmunch]

@Lydiard91 Did you forget something? A question mark at the end of your reply, p'raps? And yes, I would like to speak to you, very much as it happens, and I will be happy to tell you that you are a pedantic oaf who is not in touch with reality. And once I have told you that, I shall be force feeding you humble pie until your intestines rupture and pie trickles out of every orifice in your miserable body, plus a few new ones. Chop chop, eat up little piggy, there's a good fellow!

[Lydiard91]

@colonelmunch No I didn't forget you cunt because I wasn't asking you a question, I was actually telling you to shut the fuck up. So go and eat your pie you perverted twat, you're disgusting. FUCK OFF AND DIE.

[colonelmunch]

@Lydiard91 No. And wash your foul mouth out with sulphuric acid while you're at it.

[colonelmunch]

@Lydiard91 No. And wash your foul mouth out with sulphuric acid while you're at it. Your grasp of manners is as poor as your grasp of classical music. Yuk, you stink.

[colonelmunch]

@Lydiard91 You have a very unpleasant manner little man and you should wash your mouth out with sulphuric acid. Sizzle sizzle. Then tell us all about your encyclopaedic knowledge of classical music, mwah ha hah!

[colonelmunch]

@Lydiard91 Oh dear, we are getting flustered, n'est-ce pas? I see you are obviously used to eating lots of cock for your language to be so fowl. Come come, surely you can do better than this? Actually, perhaps not, for your vocabulary is as shallow as your knowledge of classical music. Now wash your mouth out with sulphuric acid little man. Oops, your teeth just fell out through the bottom of your jaw and *yuk* that appears to be your tongue shrivelling up. No more cock for you!

[Lydiard91]

@colonelmunch Oh dear, so after spending all those weeks thinking of those wonderful retorts, all you can produce is some homophobia? You couldn't even spell it right, it's foul, not fowl. I think that's a bit beyond you though. Oh, I am gay by the way, so sucking cock is always a pleasure, so if you think you're going to upset me with your pettiness and prejudice, you're wrong. My advice is to die, so you can do the world a favour.

[colonelmunch]

@Lydiard91 You keep wanting me to die, but I think it is you who will predecease me with an Arse Injected Death Sentence. With the most basic of psychological profiling it is really obvious that you are gay: angry with people and the world in general for not understanding you, aw, diddums. I see word play isn't your forte either, but never mind, we can't all be good at everything, as I'm sure you keep reminding yourself on a daily basis. And FYI I'm not homophobic, I just love winding you up! <3

[jd7x7jd]

@Lydiard91 Wow. Thanks for your awesome contribution to gay/straight tolerance and understanding. 

[Wesbob55]

Thank you! Post more like this!



[rosscalverley]

Far too slow...

[JTB1956]

Well done. A comfortable and compelling marriage of sight and sound. Vaughan Williams' music always seems familiar, even when heard for the first time. The scenery seems strangely familiar as well. It is no wonder why so many people found a new home here on the Blue Ridge of Virginia... It was much like the home they left behind.

[MrMusicaltheater]

im a baritone and am singing this for my grade 5

[TheShapeshifter100]

I'm doing this for my hampshire music service grade 5 assment and trying to learn the words from youtube... except I'm a alto (low singer) although this vid is helping, it's making me jealous has hell about how high these people can go

[azeala11]

my sister is practicing this song to and shes an alto too

[kamadafuji]

@TheShapeshifter100 I'm an alto 2 - and although there are some moments of frustration when I swoop under the highest notes, none of the other A's or Sop's can do my best and lowest ones. Alto Power!

[hamptoncourt66]

May God preserve England forever ! Wonderful music and video..

Thanks a lot

[histrav]

absolutely beautiful.....this is the best of british culture right here......why did my family ever leave britain?

[calafsdream]

"cloudless sunshine overhead" is a little misleading as a description of Britain ;-)

[Treasurecolector2]

what a Beautiful Blesed Headline ! very nice TY

[xoeurowillowxo]

Every time I see photographs of the lush greenery of the English countryside, I become jealous of those who are lucky enough to live there:P

[jentlee1]

@xoeurowillowxo I don't know where you are but I agree with your remarks. It's all the rain that keeps it green. Sadly a diminishing countryside yearly with all the building to house the 65 million now living on these small islands. .

[trackieben]

You have to to admit it, our Island of Britain is truly a beautiful place!

[venville2]

Beautiful piece of music. Late Spring afternoons at school singing this song.

You never forget music like this. Thanks for posting and bringing back happy memories of choir class.

[WENDLEtheOWL]

A very good rendition. RVW had such a wonderful sense of rural and folk traditions! While other pieces may be more technically interesting I find I keep returning to this one for its charm. Thank you for the upload.

[conrGroute]

I am singing this with a choir I go to. Doing it as a solo and it really rather hard to get the tune to start with :/

[MsMileycyruslover]

@conrGroute  im doing this in choir too wat grade are you in

[Lisnageeragh]

@conrGroute Hope it worked for you! There are soooomany poor renditions of this song ....even by those who should have known better! So many with classical training try to do folk ...most of them cannot.

[bluedemer]

Beautiful and I like the speed it was sung!

[Matelad]

Just Lovely