Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony - Norrington/RCO(2004 live) Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony - Norrington/RCO(2004 live) Ralph Vaughan Williams OM ( 12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an …More
Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony - Norrington/RCO(2004 live)
Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony - Norrington/RCO(2004 live)
Ralph Vaughan Williams OM ( 12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song; this collecting activity influenced both his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, in which he included many folk song arrangements as hymn tunes, and several of his own original compositions.
Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 3, published as A Pastoral Symphony and not numbered until later, was completed in 1922. Vaughan Williams's initial inspiration to write this symphony came during World War I, after hearing a bugler practising and accidentally playing an interval of a seventh instead of an octave; this ultimately led to the trumpet cadenza in the second movement.
The symphony is in four movements:
Molto moderato - contentedly calm in …More
Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony - Norrington/RCO(2004 live)
Ralph Vaughan Williams OM ( 12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song; this collecting activity influenced both his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, in which he included many folk song arrangements as hymn tunes, and several of his own original compositions.
Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 3, published as A Pastoral Symphony and not numbered until later, was completed in 1922. Vaughan Williams's initial inspiration to write this symphony came during World War I, after hearing a bugler practising and accidentally playing an interval of a seventh instead of an octave; this ultimately led to the trumpet cadenza in the second movement.
The symphony is in four movements:
Molto moderato - contentedly calm in …More
