1-2 Janine Jansen The Lark Ascending
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@marvinc999 What a great comment.
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Beautiful - you can really feel the breeze flowing back and forth through the grasses as you lay on your back listening to the larks singing. I never get fed up with it and I never will.
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@marvinc999 You ponder a very interesting dilemma. There are many academics who treat Vaughan Williams, and for that matter Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, as if they wrote music that is too appealing, too tuneful and accessible to be intellectually satisfying. In their snobbery, they miss the true genius of these composers, preferring to extoll the supposedly more advanced styles of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and others. It's their loss, not ours.
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super!!!!
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just brilliant....
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Well said. Good music evokes emotion and powerful feelings and this certainly achieves that.
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i love her. really i love her. she does something that nobody else does and i have listened to so much music, so many violinists and i can't explain it. affinity i guess, on the deepest level.
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I'm crying and I don't care, enough said!!!
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@The1066Al we are, Janine isn't
I've never understood the sneering dismissiveness of certain jaded 'intellectuals' towards the work of Vaughan Williams.
Perhaps it's because - like all the best music - it doesn't need THEM to 'explain' it to the Ignorant Masses. It merely needs to be FELT - not 'understood'. And anyone with a soul can 'feel'.
marvinc999 8 months ago 52
when I'm lying on my back amogst the marram grass and wild sage of my local rabbit warren ,watching the skylarks rise into the sun as they sing, this is also playing in my head.It's a moment to cherish each spring .
flossie5432 8 months ago 9