Tallis Fantasia (Vaughan Williams) BBCSO Sir Adrian Boult

This extract is taken from Beulah 2PD12 Boult's Planets. The performace by the BBC Symphony Orchestra was recorded in the Colston Hall Bristol in 1940 and in the Gramophone August 2008 Andrew Achenbach wrote:
"Over the years I've increasingly come to regard Boult's altogethr more thrusting and spelllbindingly intense wartime HMV account with the BBC SO as the interpretative touchstone."

It is available in all good record stores or online at Amazon, e-Bay , and direct form Beulah at
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Visuals are of Lincolnshire, England's big sky county. http://www.visitlincolnshire.com/

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Music

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• classical
• tallis
• boult
• bbc
• lincolnshire
• bristol

[keepitacrime]

love the pop and hiss t the ebeginning

[A60stock]

@keepitacrime Actually this is a quiet surface for an EMI Hayes pressing which were notoriously noisy, especially during WWII when good quality shellac was in short supply (it came from India).

[buddmar]

I absolutely adore this music! Lovely photographic images as well ...

[A60stock]

Thanks. The poppy field was walking distance from my home as were the birds and the early morning and frost scenes. The rest were a short drive away, some taken from the top of a number 6 bus (Lincoln to Skegness) .

[Romanticdance]

@eastindiaman Your absolute right.

Far to fast played even chaotic.

Nature should give it's splendour in more peacefull moments.

They create to much contrast as manierisms in art.

The pastoral images don't fit in this kind of conducting.

[freethoughtmusic]

I so love how older recordings were not so ***ing rushed like modern classical recordings are. The music had time to grow, like hay and flowers in the Glouscestershire countryside that Vaughn Williams, like myself was fortunate enough to be born in. Thank you so much for uploading this jewel.

[keepitacrime]

@A60stock oh wicked

[shnimmuc]

Beautiful, one of the great works for strings ever written. You should check out the video of American composer Robert Cummings` lacrymosa for the victims of 9/11

[eastindiaman]

I love the music, but this particular rendition is played far too fast and DOES lack the spirit and depth which usually comes across when ever I have heard it played before ...I must say Im not impressed with this recording, although the music itself is the most passionate and deep I know [along with Villa-Lobos]

[RedFrankCook]

Very English I always think. Nice tune as well.

[Capt777harris]

Is it me, or is this piece lacking something?

[j0andc0]

Wonderful piece of music.