Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams arr. by Jay Bocook

[ImbaTosS]

Ouch... slaughtered... Sorry, but, this is not a performance which should have happened. RVW's Fantasia as performed by double string orchestra is my favourite piece, and I can't stand this interpretation. It's sacrilege.

[JimTLonW6]

Oh dear!

[perry2141]

my middle school 8th grade honor band is playing this i play trombone this is a great song

[AltosaxHero]

@perry2141 Haha, you go to my school! (I'm Austin, the sax player)

[EineKleineLichtmusic]

All of Vaughn Williams' subtlety and mysticism is completely missing from this performance.

[TheCamelFactor]

Not the greatest interpretation

[Sinfoniahorn]

Why do band arrangements have to be so bad...... Is the tempo marked in this arrangement really 20 beats per minute faster than what Vaughan Williams wrote?

[chrismuscaroler]

@Sinfoniahorn Nnnnewp. It's marked 'Largo sostenuto', then goes to 'Largamente'. And the arrangement itself is pretty good, in my opinion, this is just a horrible rendition of it.

[Sinfoniahorn]

@chrismuscaroler Largo sostenuto, quarter = 56, eighth = 112....... He starts out in that tempo, and then completely loses it after the breath mark after the second measure. And besides, playing this piece metronomically perfect loses any and all musical direction, intensity of phrase structure, rise and fall.