Vaughan Williams: 4-8.4.16, 8-12.2.21 & 2-27.5.22

[doversoul1]

I turned the radio on at lunchtime and caught The Lark Ascending. What a most amazing music this is! I suppose this work is like Four Seasons; they are not popular for no reasons but their popularity seems to get in the way of being appreciated. Or I am just fortunate to be new-ish enough to RVW’s music to be able to hear it fresh. Either way, I am enjoying this Composer of the Week.

[Serial_Apologist]

Me too - but more for the music than for the commentary, which, more and more with this programme, jumps about all over the place chronologically - in line, presumably, with the Tate Modern-style approach to seeing all art as equal outside of time rather than historically contextualised and evolving alongside its creators. It strikes me as a haphazard approach - more like looking back through a photo album, isolating experiences, than finding out how a composer changed and grew in and through his or her music.

[Beef Oven!]

I turned the radio on at lunchtime and caught The Lark Ascending. What a most amazing music this is! I suppose this work is like Four Seasons; they are not popular for no reasons but their popularity seems to get in the way of being appreciated. Or I am just fortunate to be new-ish enough to RVW’s music to be able to hear it fresh. Either way, I am enjoying this Composer of the Week.

Yes, amazing music, and very popular, just like Vivaldi's music! I listen to my recordings of it regularly throughout the year and I'm always pleased when it's programmed in a concert that I have a ticket for - I've been a bit unlucky because that hasn't happened in a while! So can-cin to the Lark Ascending and Le Quatro Stagioni.

[DracoM]

Been an excellent week of discoveries.

[EdgeleyRob]

I'm glad that RVW and the Lark have found some new friends.

Re the nations favourite piece of classical music,I seem to remember reading a few years ago (may have been in Gramophone)that it won similar accolades in the USA,Australia and the Far East.
Not bad for music that doesn't travel.

[muzzer]

Yes it's sublime IMHO. A great way in to so much.

[Beef Oven!]

I'm glad that RVW and the Lark have found some new friends.

Re the nations favourite piece of classical music,I seem to remember reading a few years ago (may have been in Gramophone)that it won similar accolades in the USA,Australia and the Far East.
Not bad for music that doesn't travel.

Some of the songs travel

[AmpH]

Haven't listened to ' The Lark ' in ages , so tonight I listened to the Hugh Bean recording on EMI with the New Philharmonia and Boult. I can't recall hearing a better recording of the work than this.

[Beef Oven!]

Haven't listened to ' The Lark ' in ages , so tonight I listened to the Hugh Bean recording on EMI with the New Philharmonia and Boult. I can't recall hearing a better recording of the work than this.

That's my favourite performance, too

[EdgeleyRob]

Some of the songs travel

Brilliant

[EdgeleyRob]

Haven't listened to ' The Lark ' in ages , so tonight I listened to the Hugh Bean recording on EMI with the New Philharmonia and Boult. I can't recall hearing a better recording of the work than this.

That's my antidepressant.

Iona Brown,ASMF,Marriner works too

[Lat-Literal]

I turned the radio on at lunchtime and caught The Lark Ascending. What a most amazing music this is! I suppose this work is like Four Seasons; they are not popular for no reasons but their popularity seems to get in the way of being appreciated. Or I am just fortunate to be new-ish enough to RVW’s music to be able to hear it fresh. Either way, I am enjoying this Composer of the Week.

I am very pleased to hear this doversoul.

850 plus composers on my journey since August.

RVW is still my favourite composer!

[cloughie]

Some of the songs travel

...and John Shirley-Quirk sang them very well!

...and Boult did a proper Job!

[Beef Oven!]

...and John Shirley-Quirk sang them very well!

...and Boult did a proper Job!

[Pabmusic]

I...RVW is still my favourite composer!

I was known among friends as an Elgar freak in my 20s and 30s. I still am, of course, but I noted even then that I played RVW more often than EE. And I still do.