VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Symphony No 5 in D (3rd movement)

In memory of Vernon Handley 1930 - 2008. The beautiful Romanza from Ralph Vaughan Williams 5th Symphony. RVW conducted the premier in June 1943 at a Royal Albert Hall Prom. One of the greatest symphonies of the 20th century. This recording, performed by Vernon Handley and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 1986, was awarded BPI best classical recording award in 1988. Classics for Pleasure - EMI 2002

The dedication reads, "To Jean Sibelius, without permission."

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Music

Tags:

• VAUGHAN
• WILLIAMS
• CLASSICAL
• HANDLEY

[richardkelltoolmaker]

Blimey, I'm moved and enthralled by the music and at 1:09 is Ennerdale Water, West Cumbria. We have holidayed there many times. Thankyou !

[door2yourheart]

@richardkelltoolmaker Thanks Richard, you are a man of taste! I have stayed, camped, fell walked, just walked, fished most of Cumbria. That area, Ennerdale, Lorton Vale is a haven of peace and pastoral sublimity.

[nomorepinkowls]

Aaron Copland, on listening to Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fifth Symphony: Like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes.

[door2yourheart]

@nomorepinkowls Appalachian Spring is pretty much along the same lines, just far more simplistic, and possibly with a hog rather than a cow.

[lewars1912]

Thanks for uploading this movement. For

me RVWs 5th remains his greatest and most perfect single achievement.

[door2yourheart]

Thank you for your kind comments lewars1912. I agree, the 5th is so sublime and also so poignant for that time of extreme conflict.

Yes, i'm not happy with the sound quality, and i keep promising myself to post a less image cluttered version so that the music will shine more. i.e. less pic bytes, more sound bytes!

[fremlinskent]

This is just the most incredible music. Just listen and imagine any English landscape. I can see Glastonbury Tor, the South Downs, Box Hill, the Lake District, all in an instant.

[saunders2159]

music that makes you swallow hard as your eyes moisten

[windstorm1000]

This is the music VW's friend, George Buterworth, might have written, had he survived the Great War--he was would have come back chastized, his ideals shattered--like VW.

[windstorm1000]

@nomorepinkowls I love Aaron, but he was dead on wrong there.

[JaceXander]

@hedgehogdude123 Same here! This is my favourite movement :)

[hedgehogdude123]

I am studying this piece of music for my Music A level and i must say it is a privilege to be able to study something so beautiful

[fhdjfkgh]

@nomorepinkow Was Copland really that stupid?

[txikilin]

@nomorepinkowls What else he could say when he wrote so much music for cow-boys.

[manthasagittarius]

@door2yourheart Both of the works and their composers are wonderful. It is a pity Copland didn't understand this work or just didn't like it, but how about if we don't sink to his momentary lapse of taste or unfortunate animal comparisons?

[Operalogie]

@nomorepinkowls It's a comment that has been made about the Third Symphony ('Pastoral' - the title explains the joke), and if I recall, it wasn't Copland's, but a famous (at the time) British musical critic's. But it's possible that Copland made a similar remark.

That being said, if find the Third even more extraordinary a piece than the Fifth. I don't think anything from Copland can rival with it, even though I truly love his 'Billy the Kid'.