Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"

William Boughton and the English String Orchestra. The music is "Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus" by Ralph Vaughn Williams, my favourite composer. The slideshow is taken from my recent vacation in Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula.

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• dives
• lazarus
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• vaughn
• williams
• tobermory
• bruce
• peninsula

[ty60509rocks]

Where did you get the pictures they are pretty!!!

Love The Song To!!

[HenryOrientJnr]

@ty60509rocks Glad you like it. The pictures are from my vacation in Tobermory on the tip of the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario (plus Flower Pot Island and Manitoulin Island). A beautiful part of the country.

[farliesbirthday]

These so English composers, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Butterworth etc, all seem to have a touch of the Celtic too - a tendency of being elegiac, of yearning for what has gone, or for what can never be.

[HenryOrientJnr]

I think you have something there. There is indeed a deep strain of melancholy in English music of this era that I feel a particular affinity for. It is odd that music can have a national character, but it is undeniably true.

[oaklegh]

Ricky sent me

[aldebussy]

The 5 Browns arranged this for the piano. It's a must-hear.

[davemarshall2963]

Vaughan Williams and Butterworth were friends prior to Butterworth's death in the trenches in 1916 and they collected and orchestralised folk songs this is why so many have commented that this is like another song

[zedwardson]

If you Could Hie to Kolob uses the same music, lovely song.

[rrchapman]

Actually, the main theme for this one is "Kingsfold"--which is almost the same as "Star of the County Down." There are minor differences, but very close.

Evangelical Lutheran Worship (latest hymnal from the ELCA) has both tunes.

[parkourmormon]

I wish i could Hie to Kolob