Vaughan Williams info

Our photo here shows VW in later life listening to a concert via his ear trumpet. He went progressively more deaf through his life due to the effects of artillery during WWI.

A large audience last night for the University of Exeter Chapel Choir’s concert at the Great Hall, Dartington — part of the English Music Festival weekend. Vaughan Williams, Holst, Elgar, Dyson, Britten on the bill. @ArcheryPromos @ElgarLondon @RVWinfo @DartingtonTrust

English Folk Song Suite | Ralph Vaughan Williams | Bürgermusik Saalfelden youtu.be/CoH4OddMMBY?si… via @YouTube A peek into another world where regional wind bands play serious music to full audiences - in lederhosen and the female Austrian equivalent.

Dave Hurwitz review: Pappano Shines in Vaughan Williams' 5th and 9th Symphonies youtu.be/TNEcz65WK8s?si… via @YouTube

@RVWSociety @YouTube @cyrille_dubois And links to listen from the publisher's site above.

@RVWSociety @YouTube @cyrille_dubois There is a wonderful extract from the album at the end of that video.

Cyrille Dubois, tenor on a new album of Vaughan Williams, talks to Andrew Green of the @RVWSociety about how they sought to inject a French spirit into the recordings. youtube.com/watch?v=sY4Hle… via @YouTube Liking.

金管バンドのサウンドが好きだし、ヴォーン・ウィリアムスの音楽はもっと好きなんだ Vaughan Williams on Brass youtu.be/KsILRbZtTwc?si… @YouTubeより

"Any newly recorded collection featuring 2 hours of prime Ralph Vaughan Williams is to be celebrated. All the more, because in this instance, the performers are not the usual suspects of British or Anglophone musicians, but instead a group of talented French artists" - MusicWeb.

An amazing woman, taught by Ralph Vaughan Williams and the first British woman to score a feature film. For me, her masterpiece is "Penillion." youtu.be/WIU2vT0tJ5Y?si…

My music day ends with Sir Thomas Allen singing the "Songs of Travel" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra accompany him. Enjoy and much love to you all ❤️ Goodnight, everyone. Nos da. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

prestomusic.com/classical/prod… Young French tenor, Cyrille Dubois, has recently made an all-Vaughan Williams album called Landscapes. He gives us Vaughan Williams with a slightly French flavour, of which Ravel would surely have approved. #CyrilleDubois #Landscapes #VaughanWilliams

Esther Yoo on playing The Lark Ascending with the @royalphilorch in a new recording. youtu.be/RmnFIWQycvI?si… via @YouTube

Kalmar recorded a very fine performance of Vaughan Williams’s 5th with the (superb) Oregon Symphony Orchestra. (The CD booklet has excellent notes on the spirit of the work.) @andrewCDmcg @OregonSymphony @RVWinfo @robertflute @ArcheryPromos

@Mahler18601911 I remember the English horn player - apparently substituting for their normal one - just playing so well. The wind section was incredible too. And they got the string style right. Andrew Davis I think worked some magic there.

@RVWinfo Oh without doubt, and yes it was good to see such a great piece so well received. The orchestra played it superbly.

My music day ends with André Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in the second movement Lento Moderato of the Symphony No 3 "Pastoral Symphony" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Enjoy and much love to you all ❤️ Goodnight, everyone. Nos da. youtu.be/4uk9RdtsOdg?si…

@Mahler18601911 The Romanza from that performance is the best I've heard. Remarkable too to see the reaction from some of the audience (I'm not a fan of that generally, but it's still amazing to see).

@RVWinfo Yes you're right. There's a beautiful performance of the 5th on YouTube with Sir Andrew Davis and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. The opening of the 5th shows his distinctive quality. youtu.be/LsQGFlcqUmA?si…

@Mahler18601911 The general opinion has changed though I think. The Pastoral has been given really good treatments on German and French radio. In Britain too there was quite a bit of good reappraisal during the centenary year.

@RVWinfo Yes he had such a unique voice and this "cowpat composer" label is so unjustified. It really grinds my gears!