Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Pt.2.
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No other piece of music can possibly be as sublime or as powerful as this.... you can feel it surrounding you- sound and only sound- nothing more....
It is music with true feeling- true emotion. Who cares about what is popular- it is music that flows from the heart... from the soul--- I believe that if you are to play or write music it is to be what flows from you soul. It was so with RVW- what he composed flowed from his soul, thus it is he that was a true composer.
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@xwsftassell This sort of thing keeps one a life in side.
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No words can do this brilliant music justice
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OMG, just realised how short a human life is.... do stuff now, while you can.
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@BradBrassman he wrote welsh music pieces as well,, and his name vaughan williams - vaughan is from the welsh fachan ;) lol...he was very close to the welsh border so he wasnt heart of england origin....but I know what you are saying as imo hes nothing like the continent musicians
Lark ascending is his most english piece about the ridgeway in the chilterns
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Great composer with a great heart---and you get the feeling, looking at his photos, that his life was touched with more than a bit of sadness--one reason perhaps why he was able to create this music from the heart.
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Vaughn Williams is, dare i say it, even more England than Elgar.
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This always reminds me of my home county of Shropshire (before Telford of course).
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This is THE most wonderful piece of music man has ever composed.
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This is magnificent. I wish someone had the technology to clean up the sound on the recording a bit.
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when i played this in orchestra at s.c.p.a. I felt so alive and have yet to experience such a feeling to that degree...



If you can't FEEL this.....you're dead inside...
owenlawman 1 year ago 16
@owenlawman Yeah, perfect litmus test, you might say.
xwsftassell 1 year ago 5
Hello xwsftassell,
Can you provide some information on this wonderful performance? Conductor? Orchestra? Recorded when and where? Thanks.
dboviola 1 year ago
Sir John Barbirolli. Sinfonia of London. 1962. Knight's Templar church. Temple, London, as suggested to Barbirolli by Bernard Herrmann, who insisted: "it must be done in a stone building not a studio".
According to Ursula Vaughan Williams: "Coats and bags and thermos flasks were piled round the effigies of Crusader Knights. Benny was there, listening to the balance, listening to the music, and the resulting record is by far the best ever made of the work."
xwsftassell 1 year ago 9