Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite PART 2 of 3 - LSO & SIR ADRIAN BOULT

II.Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy). Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.

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Music

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• vaughan
• williams;
• english
• folk
• song
• suite;
• folk;
• song;
• london
• symphony;
• sir
• adrian
• boult

[grannysfilms]

my mum knew Vaughn Williams

[dimsimlord]

@Melancoholic1

Grainger and Williams were both obsessed with folk music; but Grainger tended to preserve the strange modalities and rhythms found in English music (which is why Grainger is so difficult to play) whereas Vaughan Williams tended to simplify and/or conform the music to make it more conventional to the classical tradition

[Melancoholic1]

@Moonmatt2

Well, they were both contemporaries, I suppose and they both collected folk songs, but Vaughan Williams was Grainger's senior by ten years, so I'm going to say that Grainger sounds Vaughan Williams-esque.

This sounds EXTREMELY Vaughan Williams-esque, though.

[Moonmatt2]

This sounds incredibly Grainger-esque.

[Hallucigenius]

@ytcomposer Thanks bud, I'll check it out.

[ytcomposer]

@Hallucigenius: I just found out that Grainger made an outstanding arrangement of that very song, though he titled it "Green Bushes" for some reason.

[Hallucigenius]

I recognize "The Cutty Wren" from 1:30 to 2:00. One of my favourite English folk songs of all time.

[finanwen]

Thank you so much for this! <3

[PandaMishima]

I have missed so much living here in the States.. tho I would trade nothing for my summers in Michigan.

[axecalibore]

Part of this is a sprightly rendition of The Banks of Green Willow by Butterworth,