Vaughan Williams: 5. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Sir Andrew Davis

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  • @lowe7471
    @lowe7471 6 місяців тому +56

    Listening today in memory of Sir Andrew Davis. RIP.

  • @martinwaddell8429
    @martinwaddell8429 3 роки тому +91

    So there I was in the late 60s, a teenager listening to 60s prog rock with my teenage friends, and suddenly I discovered RVW - first the Tallis Fantasia, and then the 5th Symphony. I was smitten. My friends all thought I’d lost my marbles. But RVW 5 has stayed with me all my life as my favourite piece of music ever, especially the Romanza. But also the last movement, particularly the way the strings go higher and higher, with an ascending scale in the background, until it all shimmers away into nothingness. And this performance - beyond words!

    • @Aelredpatrick
      @Aelredpatrick Рік тому +7

      Same here. I discovered Lark Ascending the same year I studied the Meredith poem. Exquisite then, exquisite now. After that, the other iconic small pieces - Greensleeves, Tallis, Dives & Lazarus - & the brilliant Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Neville Marriner. A very special place in my heart and soul forever.

    • @studentjohn35
      @studentjohn35 Рік тому +1

      As a fellow RVW fan, can your musical mind still tolerate Mike Oldfield's OMMADAWN (1975) ?

    • @TownHouseFilms
      @TownHouseFilms 10 місяців тому

      Me too!

    • @peterclifford3042
      @peterclifford3042 9 місяців тому +5

      This is my story too. RVW speaks to something deep in my English soul.

    • @stevetheprogger1
      @stevetheprogger1 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@studentjohn35I love RVW... Until the day I die. But I also love Ommadawn!

  • @michaelhesford840
    @michaelhesford840 Рік тому +19

    I was lucky enough to get to hear Sir Andrew Davis perform this piece with the Baltimore Symphony last night. Amazing!

  • @RichardLarkham-l4b
    @RichardLarkham-l4b 10 місяців тому +23

    Quite simply the greatest live performance of this wondrous symphony - passionate, delicate, full-bodied, superbly played and ending sublimely. Utterly outstanding from Maestro Davis and this incredible orchestra.

  • @karldelavigne8134
    @karldelavigne8134 6 місяців тому +31

    RIP, Sir Andrew. I trust you will be reunited with this Romanza in the realm above.

  • @gwydionrhys7672
    @gwydionrhys7672 3 роки тому +71

    In my opinion, this is one of the 20th century's finest symphonies.

  • @Jack-D-Ripper
    @Jack-D-Ripper Рік тому +20

    This moves me to tears every time I listen to it. And this was one of the finest versions that I have heard; sublimely beautiful.
    I first heard this as a boy of eight in 1964 and it bowled me over with its ability to stir up such emotions that I'd only know by being along in the Hampshire countryside and by the southern coast of England and marvelling at the beauty of Nature.
    Thank you for this video.

    • @TheCreativeRetailer
      @TheCreativeRetailer 8 місяців тому +1

      It is the best symphony I have ever heard! I want to hear it performed live! The music reminds me of my grandfather and great-grandfather, who both hailed from England. I also feel the emotions as you do!

    • @violadamore2-bu2ch
      @violadamore2-bu2ch 8 місяців тому +2

      I almost don't want it to end, sort of like a horizon, it keeps going.

  • @carlhale4089
    @carlhale4089 5 років тому +97

    After a terse and even abrasive out of the box 4th symphony that even convinced Aaron Copland that VW was not a dull pastoralist, along comes the breathtakingly haunting and epic, yes epic, 5th symphony that allows VW to do what he does best: transform his listeners into a world of sonorous, tranquil, lovely, uncluttered, honest symphonic landscapes that lift, move, and better the human soul!! He is English, amen to that, but far from being dull, local, or provincial, he takes the indigenous English folk songs and melodies, makes them fully his own, and then gently covers the panorama of earth like a dawning, pure, soft snowfall, giving without holding back a heartfelt answer, to comfort and renew the fearful, anxious, tired, longing appetency of the 20th century!!! Bravo and HALLELUJAH master composer Vaughn Williams!!! Thank you!!!

    • @radioyankee
      @radioyankee 3 роки тому +3

      yours is a fine critique of RVW's genious

    • @Kidderman2210
      @Kidderman2210 3 роки тому +4

      I agree - but it is hard to ignore what was going on internationally. Number 4 was written in the 1930s, this was written during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. An interesting comparison with Shostokovitch's Leningrad symphony. Also, VW was having a secret love affair at the time.

    • @johnday530
      @johnday530 3 роки тому +4

      @@Kidderman2210 By 1942.selected people knew the Nazi warmachine would eventually fall +VW set out to compose a beautiful work performed in 1943 as a gift to war torn people.INCANDESCENTLY beauty.full.the last 2 movements i play nearly everyday...

    • @Kidderman2210
      @Kidderman2210 3 роки тому

      @@johnday530 Actually, much of it was written before the war. The third movement is based on music he wrote for "Pilgrims progress"

    • @voyeur62626
      @voyeur62626 3 роки тому +5

      You have me wondering about the downside of being a (dull) pastoralist.

  • @dhtpmusic275
    @dhtpmusic275 2 роки тому +29

    Mit all meinen Worten kann ich nicht beschreiben, wie sehr mich dieses wundervolle Werk jedes mal aufs Neue mit seinem überwältigenden Optimismus und seiner Trost und Kraft gebenden Lebensfreude tief im Herzen berührt. Immer wieder bringt es mir ein Licht in diese Welt voller Dunkelheit, und wenn ich an seine unbekümmert voranfließenden Melodien denke, spüre ich die Gewissheit, dass alle Dinge sich irgendwann zum Guten wenden werden.
    Ich danke den Musikerinnen und Musikern und auch dem großartigen Dirigenten Sir Andrew Davis für dieses wundervolle Geschenk, das ich so sehr gebraucht habe!
    I cannot describe with all my words how wholeheartedly moved I am by this wonderful Symphony and its purely optimistic and joyful mood, which always gives me a feeling of solace and relief. It is my light in this world full of darkness, and when I think of its everflowing melodies I certainly know that one time everything will fall into place.
    Thank you so much for this wonderful gift which I so much needed in this time!
    Edit: I can´t get those last three minutes out of my head. This melody and those last bars reaching into heaven feel like hugging the whole world and are probably the most beautiful moment in music I have ever heard!

  • @Otorres1
    @Otorres1 11 місяців тому +6

    The music feels effortless in its flow, a soft glow emanates.

  • @elainenessola4880
    @elainenessola4880 6 місяців тому +8

    That first few minutes of the Romanza just gets me in the gut EVERY SINGLE TIME. Swoon swoon swoon. Is there anything more beautiful??

    • @denisehay8895
      @denisehay8895 6 місяців тому +2

      There is absolutely NOTHING as beautiful as the Romanza! I grew up in Somerset, England and this music sweeps me back to the Somerset of my youth, which has sadly disappeared.

  • @robclark4626
    @robclark4626 2 місяці тому +7

    I am English and, proud though I am of being so, this beautiful symphony transcends nationalistic thoughts in favour of simply being human and togetherness. Huge respect for this wonderful orchestra.

  • @gumpy4960
    @gumpy4960 4 роки тому +26

    The entire symphony is lovely, but the end of the 4th movement is other worldly, takes me somewhere that is beautiful, somewhere where my dad and brother are.

  • @lunarlight3131
    @lunarlight3131 2 роки тому +14

    I used to listen to these symphonies years ago and revisiting them the melodies and motifs all come back to me with such intense nostalgia and scenery I was engaged in with the time.

  • @prometheanevent
    @prometheanevent 5 років тому +22

    The slow movement to this work is one of the most beautiful pieces in classical music. ‘Definitely deserves more exposure.

  • @christophernewman5027
    @christophernewman5027 5 років тому +23

    This is one of those rare pieces of music for which I am always in the mood. It never fails to move me...

  • @thomasley4006
    @thomasley4006 3 роки тому +62

    The Romanza is probably RVW‘s most moving piece of music to me. I’m always at the same time devastated and comforted when hearing it..

  • @josjanssen6733
    @josjanssen6733 6 місяців тому +14

    rest in peace, Sir Andrew. What a fine performance. Note how the "etheral" slimmed-down Vaughan-Williams sound is accomplished, even in the forte parts. Great how this is done with an orchestra who probably don't have this music in their blood. It makes me long for that Sibelius cycle that we never got from Sir Andrew. I daresay that might have been special.

  • @sydshrimp
    @sydshrimp 8 років тому +34

    One of the very great symphonies of the 20th Century given a wonderfully devoted performance by an excellent German orchestra guided by the sure hands of Andrew Davis who has become a great Vaughan Williams conductor.

  • @AlexDeLarge77
    @AlexDeLarge77 3 роки тому +14

    RVW work is so atmospheric and beautiful it’s beyond words.
    If you’re not moved by it then you have a heart of stone.

  • @271250cl
    @271250cl 8 років тому +146

    It is wonderful to know that the music of this great English symphonist is now being heard in mainland Europe and especially in Germany, a country with such a great tradition of symphonic writing.

    • @samuelevangelistolopezcast7620
      @samuelevangelistolopezcast7620 6 років тому +2

      Arrechisísimo!

    • @mizofan
      @mizofan 6 років тому +2

      is his reputation growing?

    • @annakimborahpa
      @annakimborahpa 6 років тому +6

      The Germans know a good sonata (1st movement) and passacaglia (4th movement) when they hear them. Faint traces of Mahler in the 2nd movement and a big beautiful love song for a 3rd movement will also put one in good stead on the continent.

    • @dimmo696
      @dimmo696 6 років тому +4

      I love the way the first movement keeps moving and how one can hear all the lines so clearly

    • @MrBohuslav
      @MrBohuslav 5 років тому +1

      Alas not.

  • @poturbg8698
    @poturbg8698 2 роки тому +10

    Most beautiful performance of this music I've ever heard.

  • @PhilippeBrun-qy3st
    @PhilippeBrun-qy3st 2 місяці тому +4

    Une bien belle symphonie du 20ème siècle...j'aimerais qu'elle soit plus souvent programmée en France. Merci encore.

  • @oboist3
    @oboist3 2 роки тому +15

    One of the most beautiful symphonies I know of. it gives a true balm to the spirit. What a lovely performance this is.

  • @michaelpatterson2955
    @michaelpatterson2955 3 роки тому +16

    Marvelous symphony. It pulls at my heart, and I feel as if I'm standing before an open, sweeping landscape after a storm, awaiting the reappearance of a brighter tomorrow.

  • @leslieackerman4189
    @leslieackerman4189 4 роки тому +22

    My well remembered Frankfurt orchestra in their magnificent Alte Oper. One of the most beautiful symphonies ever written, sumptuously played.

  • @americantimberwolf
    @americantimberwolf 7 років тому +39

    The first time I ever heard this symphony, I was privileged to hear the Weimar Symphony play this while they were in NYC back in the mid-1990s. I had chills then, and I have chills once again. This symphony has helped me through many a rough times in my life!

  • @kphcpsu
    @kphcpsu 8 років тому +54

    Oh my God! I was sobbing at certain segments in this piece. Vaughan Williams Symphony no.5 occupies a special place in my heart for its pastoral (or soothing) yet forward-looking melody. Magnificent!

  • @navaneethakrishnans1299
    @navaneethakrishnans1299 Рік тому +3

    What a stupendous rendition I bow to all the artists and conductor. Nothing but hr Frankfurt symphony, great.

  • @jordiferran6903
    @jordiferran6903 4 роки тому +24

    this symphony is magical and tracendent beyond flags and old fashioned labels like "British Composer" . Flags only undermine the power of music. Vaughan Williams deserves being spread around the world because is the best for ours memories and souls. Is Beauty, elevation and perfection in Music. Demolishes barriers and frontiers.

    • @jimmyhillschin9987
      @jimmyhillschin9987 4 роки тому +6

      nicely said Jordi, although there is a distinctively British or English aspect to this symphony and Vaughan William's music in general. He called himself a 'nationalist', but it wasn't the narrow-minded sort of nationalism that people generally assume of the label today. He saw national feeling and tradition as a way to find one's place the world, as a part of that world and to be appreciated by people of the world.

    • @niallmark6136
      @niallmark6136 4 роки тому +1

      Bravo! Couldn't agree more

  • @robertprokop1649
    @robertprokop1649 2 роки тому +28

    This is one of the 5 or 6 pieces of music that I simply cannot listen to without tearing up. The Music of the Spheres!

  • @musicguyrml
    @musicguyrml 5 років тому +39

    Bravissimo! How wonderful to see a German orchestra playing and fully understanding RVW's music under the brilliant Sir Andrew Davis. What is particularly emotional is that the players and audience seem to be playing/hearing this incredible music respectively for the first time and can hardy believe its emotional intensity. This is a wonderful humanitarian reaffirmation.

  • @dexblue
    @dexblue 10 місяців тому +11

    Anyone else cry during the 4th movement? I was trying to follow along with the score (Seattle Public Library) and I had to put it down because my eyes filled ...

    • @jackharrison6771
      @jackharrison6771 16 днів тому +1

      It's OK, you're not alone; but other parts as well for me. This makes me remember my late parents; and my even poor German Shepherd last month. All gone except for our VW.

    • @dexblue
      @dexblue 14 днів тому

      @@jackharrison6771 Regards Jack

  • @RichardLarkham-l4b
    @RichardLarkham-l4b 6 місяців тому +10

    Yes, may the Maestro rest well. Thank you for this wondrous performance - the only one I ever listen to/watch, thank you for a fabulous Elgar 1 in Cardiff several years ago, thank you for all your RVW Symphonies, for grace and humility and absolute musicianship. What a life, what a legacy.

  • @SharpWalkers
    @SharpWalkers 4 роки тому +12

    The 'Romanza' is just one of the most deeply moving pieces of music for me. Despite its title, to me its music of such pain, sorrow, and heartache. It's always gives me this image of a person looking out over the sea from a cliff, watching a loved one leave and there waiting for a return which might never come.
    Generally, the sound of this symphony puts into my mind images of the sea, and its place in the human world - much more so than a choir singing "Behoooold the seeeeeeea".

    • @paulm8473
      @paulm8473 3 роки тому

      I love this symphony especially. I tried to listen to Symphony 1 but I couldn't get very far into it. Someone please tell me it's worth listening to for reasons besides being able to say that one has listened to all his symphonies. :-)

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 3 роки тому +13

    Without Vaughan williams' s masterpieces and his great performers and conductors such as these magnificent performers and Sir Andrew Davis,
    my enjoyment and pleasures of the music would have been less ,
    There is something extraordinary in this splendid performance Sir Andrew Davis conducts
    From
    Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

  • @daviddavenport9350
    @daviddavenport9350 Рік тому +5

    That ending!....with all the "Alleluias" in the violins wafting to Heaven over the Earthly grounding of the soft E timpani roll....simply transporting.....so beautiful!

  • @robinbarber5291
    @robinbarber5291 8 років тому +57

    Magnificent , beyond words what a great German orchestra can bring to Vaughan Williams one of the greatest but most neglected 20th century symphonists. Bravo Frankfurt!

    • @pattomuso
      @pattomuso 7 років тому +9

      Top orchestra, top conductor and top composition....what's not to love?

    • @richardjones4929
      @richardjones4929 7 років тому +2

      In a nutshell!!

    • @raulespejo2587
      @raulespejo2587 7 років тому +1

      He is 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% sure not one of the greatest 20th century symphonists. He is a very overrated composer instead, he is just fine.

    • @pattomuso
      @pattomuso 7 років тому +7

      I wish i was that overrated! ;)

    • @gduncan8012
      @gduncan8012 7 років тому +12

      Raul Espejo That's a lot of zeros, Raul. VW is one of the greatest symphonists of the 20th century. He's up there with Sibelius and Nielsen. His music is complex and daring but accessible. I dare you to find a 20th century symphony as melodious as the 5th. For something this gentle to have been written during WWII is quite amazing.

  • @salt_cots
    @salt_cots 3 роки тому +12

    The last four minutes (35:00) must surely constitute one of the most exquisite endings to any symphony. And what a great performance here!

  • @paulgoddard5005
    @paulgoddard5005 21 годину тому

    This has become one of my favourite recordings of this awesome and delicious piece of RVW's genius - directed by the wonderful, missed and much lamented Sir Andrew Davies. Beautiful interpretation, spot-on tempi and utterly divine delivery - what's not to love about this performance? At the end, the conductor's subtle bow to his orchestra - he knew they had exceeded his expectation. Sir Andrew Davis: May he rest in peace, and rise in glory.

  • @rogermueller6034
    @rogermueller6034 5 років тому +39

    I've listened to this symphonic piece over 200 times and it never fails to move me every time! For me, RVW is the quintessential English composer!

  • @paullilliott7565
    @paullilliott7565 7 місяців тому +2

    beautiful performance and so sensitively conducted! So wonderful to see a German audience (especially the young boy in the front!) so captivated - ironically the symphony is filled with VW's experiences in the 2 wars. What a genius! Eine wunderschone Vorstellung - es freut mich so sehr das eine deutsche Audienz hatte sie so geliebte!

  • @bigcedock
    @bigcedock 7 років тому +19

    Sometimes it just clicks: a masterpiece of symphonic music of the 20th Century, a fine conductor, and a terrific orchestra eager to give its best effort to a piece it doesn't know -- result: WOW!

  • @tom2tones223
    @tom2tones223 4 місяці тому +2

    Love what this orchestra is doing, putting out a wide range of repertoire and reaching more people globally.

  • @richardhyde5997
    @richardhyde5997 2 роки тому +7

    I think this is Williams' finest symphony. It's meditative ,but also has a large measure of elegance. Bravo to Sir Andrew Davis and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.

  • @MartinMerayoUCDM
    @MartinMerayoUCDM 2 роки тому +7

    The coda of the last movement is so beautiful. I hate VW for not making that part longer

  • @christophernewman5027
    @christophernewman5027 5 років тому +7

    Never fails to move me, both for the sheer beauty of the music itself and for evoking an England that is slipping away before my eyes...

  • @kohl57
    @kohl57 2 роки тому +11

    My goodness, this is an astonishingly superb performance. Do I have an absolute no. 1 favourite recording of my favourite V.W. symphony? You betcha.

  • @blackcathiking7831
    @blackcathiking7831 4 роки тому +8

    Just love this symphony, and the performance here is sublime. There is something mesmerising about the music, full of imagery - gentle breeze, on a warm summers day. It's also worth acknowledging the audience for giving the silence space at the end.

  • @julieandrews730
    @julieandrews730 2 роки тому +6

    So beautiful, and such a wonderful orchestra. I never fail to be moved by the artistry of FRS!

  • @peterjhillier7659
    @peterjhillier7659 2 роки тому +7

    Das ist die beste Aufführung von RVWs 5 ich hab’ gehört, fantastisch, ausgezeichnet, vielen Dank.

  • @bubffm
    @bubffm 8 років тому +47

    I've been at the concert and it has been magnificient. What a shame so little Vaughan Wiiliams is heard in German concert halls

    • @sherifelhaggan1679
      @sherifelhaggan1679 6 років тому +8

      bubffm
      Unfortunately this applies also to the UK

    • @october65-h6e
      @october65-h6e 4 роки тому +2

      I would love to hear the "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis" with this orchestra.

  • @pattomuso
    @pattomuso 7 років тому +25

    Interesting to consider that this wonderful piece saw the light of day when UK & Germany were very much at odds with each other....move on several decades and we now have an excellent German ensemble performing it with a top English conductor at the helm!

  • @billgrange3189
    @billgrange3189 4 роки тому +11

    The opening of this wonderful symphony must be among the most haunting and exquisitely beautiful in all music. It does, however, have a tinge of sadness in that in conjures up, for me, a British countryside as it was in the composer's day - not scarred by distribution warehouses and motorways. Well, there is still much beauty left!

  • @jennyrook715
    @jennyrook715 2 роки тому +4

    Quite wonderful. What a beautiful performance of one of the greatest symphonies by an English composer.

  • @Lamplighter888
    @Lamplighter888 3 роки тому +9

    18:07-21:17 it seems these are the most beautiful notes ever penned by the hand of man

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 5 років тому +9

    Deep emotion grew into my heart , and it was the time of supreme bliss . 🍎

  • @voxceltica4249
    @voxceltica4249 Місяць тому +1

    Sublime symphony,sublimely played with such love!❤

  • @dirkh.44
    @dirkh.44 3 роки тому +9

    My favorite Vaughan Williams symphony. A splendid performance. Thank you!

  • @tonigarzon3220
    @tonigarzon3220 5 місяців тому +4

    It´s so beautiful! Something very special.

  • @ШайхуллаСадыков
    @ШайхуллаСадыков 2 роки тому +7

    Прекрасная музыка; чистый бальзам на душу; бесконечно хочется слушать.Наверно очень добрый человек создал подобную целебную музыку.

  • @MarlboroughManMusic
    @MarlboroughManMusic 7 років тому +7

    One of the finest performances of this work I've ever heard.

  • @b1i2l336
    @b1i2l336 7 років тому +22

    This is hands down the greatest performance of this magnificent work that I have ever experienced; the prolonged audience ovation at the end is well deserved. Maestro Andrew Davis is a master conductor, always providing tension in the singing musical line and inevitable forward motion, traits all too missing even in the best but lazy orchestras of today.

  • @b1i2l336
    @b1i2l336 6 років тому +9

    This is the greatest performance of this sublime work I ever hope to hear.

  • @Mark_Dyer1
    @Mark_Dyer1 4 роки тому +8

    I always remember that line from the biographical film, 'O THOU TRANSCENDENT' (a quote from the 1st Symphony) where we were informed that Vaughan Williams, "left us with tunes: but WHAT tunes!" And the lovely, late, Jill Balcon, telling us how, during his funeral in Westminster Abbey, she managed to hold back the tears, until they struck up with 'The Old 100th'; at which point the Abbey dissolved. Who cares about the 'musical experts': RVW ranks with Elgar, as one of the greatest of ENGLISH composers. RIP.

  • @camillebouchard6436
    @camillebouchard6436 2 роки тому +7

    Magnifique !

  • @wo8394
    @wo8394 4 роки тому +7

    Any day is a great day for the Ralph

  • @karldelavigne8134
    @karldelavigne8134 6 років тому +27

    This is the best performance of this symphony on YT. The orchestra plays splendidly and Davis is superb. I hope they will programme more works by RVW; the 6th symphony I rate as one of the greatest of the 20th C.

  • @VesiustheBoneCruncher
    @VesiustheBoneCruncher 8 років тому +19

    I love this symphony - gotta love what a very different sounding orchestra to those which normally play it bring to the table here. Depth of sound and discipline levels are huge - but that ethereal shimmering Vaughan Williams is not lost. This is really good stuff.

  • @nurhayat81
    @nurhayat81 4 роки тому +25

    This wonderfully calming music is helping during Covid-19 quarantine. Lol.

    • @rustynaile7042
      @rustynaile7042 4 роки тому +3

      You are exactly correct! ...glad someone else feels that way, also.

    • @richardjohns8617
      @richardjohns8617 3 роки тому

      Incredible that this wonderful symphony, an English lovesong was completed and played in the middle of world war 2. His equally inspirational Symphony NO.3, The Pastoral, is similar, though written in France during World War 1. Both these move me beyond words.

  • @gljamil
    @gljamil 7 років тому +12

    Wonderful! Extraordinary conduction, impossible not to be emotional at this masterpiece!

  • @MAFussell
    @MAFussell 4 роки тому +7

    Such a wonderful rendition! One of the best performances of this otherworldly symphony. Davis is reverential, deriving his emotional appeal with such a balanced, yet subtly passionate performance. He should reprise this in Gloucester Cathedral, where his Thomas Tallis was breathtakingly beautiful.

  • @ronaldbwoodall2628
    @ronaldbwoodall2628 7 років тому +10

    I have always liked Andrew Davis' "way" with Vaughan Williams, and here the FRSO shows its versatility by turning in a very idiomatic performance under his leadership. This symphony is one of the most purely beautiful in sound and emotion, communicating a feeling of serenity and assurance of purpose. It is always a joy to hear, and this production is a triumph all around!

  • @bayreuth1951
    @bayreuth1951 Рік тому +6

    Es ist eine sehr schöne Symphonie und ich fühle mich ruhig.

  • @alanmorrison9732
    @alanmorrison9732 7 років тому +37

    This was a tremendous performance! I was intrigued to hear what a central German orchestra, from which I have heard noble performances of Bruckner and Mahler, would make of such a quintessential English composer as Vaughan Williams and with such a very Anglicised symphony as this (which I believe to be the most beautiful (and spiritual) symphony ever written). Interesting that VW dedicated the symphony to Sibelius, who said he loved it. My gold standard of this symphony has been Andre Previn with the LSO on RCA from the 1970s. That was truly ecstatic and I recommend it wholeheartedly, if you can find the CD remasterings anywhere. But I was agreeably surprised how close the Frankfurt orchestra came to that in this live performance. Andrew Davis has certainly coached them well into the English mellifluous more legato mode of playing, with just the right lilt in the Scherzo. Bravo!

    • @paullewis2413
      @paullewis2413 5 років тому +2

      @Alan Morrison. Have loved this symphony since I was a teenager and my personal favourite has to be the Barbirolli recording of around 1963 not least because of the unsurpassed playing of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

    • @Mompfried
      @Mompfried 2 роки тому +2

      Not being a native speaker of English, I tripped over the word "mellifluous" in your post and looked it up. Now, I'm sure I know what is meant by this word. There is a very special characteristic with the strings playing in orchestra works by English composers, and especially by RVW, who, by the way, is my absolute favourite composer in the field of orchestra music. I adore his Tallis Fantasia and the 5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus as well as the Norfolk Symphonies and the piece In a Fen Country. This symphony no. 5 is somewhat new to me, but it will become one of my other RVW favourite pieces of music.

  • @ukdavepianoman
    @ukdavepianoman 5 років тому +48

    RVW gets a lot of stick from so-called musical experts but they are idiots. RVW wrote incredibly moving music. I love this symphony and the Romanza is such a great movement. How to write the most beautiful descending scale.

    • @bobnordin291
      @bobnordin291 4 роки тому

      RVW SO great FLW TOOK the end of intro for Phantom. NJIO.org just starting to rehearse RVW Symphony No 2 for a concert 4/26/20 in New Jersey.

    • @tomstage4906
      @tomstage4906 4 роки тому +1

      Totally agree, ukpianoman.

    • @georgeholloway3981
      @georgeholloway3981 4 роки тому +2

      Moving but also intellectual, I think. A very good symphonic "thinker", I feel.

    • @KinkyLettuce
      @KinkyLettuce 4 роки тому +5

      its not a coincidence that Sibelius absolutely adored RVW's music, especially this 5th symphony.
      Those so-called experts need to throw their garbage ideologies out the window

  • @jauscielingjauquae6864
    @jauscielingjauquae6864 2 роки тому +3

    Well done BRAVO. BRAVO the second. Score is as it is written and is expressive. Thanks to all of You. Miestro. Keep looking you'll find more and become a full symphony and play PHILHARMONIC

  • @shnimmuc
    @shnimmuc 6 років тому +15

    The greatest symphony of the 20th century.

    • @agapanthus1953
      @agapanthus1953 5 років тому

      Ever heard of Mahler??????????

    • @PETERJOHN101
      @PETERJOHN101 5 років тому

      @@agapanthus1953
      I am not a great fan of Mahler, I find his music too cerebral.

    • @andrewpetersen5272
      @andrewpetersen5272 4 роки тому

      Nah. Ives' 4th

    • @andrewpetersen5272
      @andrewpetersen5272 4 роки тому

      @@PETERJOHN101 You would want to admit that?

    • @unnamed_boi
      @unnamed_boi 4 роки тому +2

      nah. too many good symphonies to pick.

  • @gumpy4960
    @gumpy4960 6 років тому +4

    My favourite and the most beautiful symphony of all time

  • @grady876876
    @grady876876 10 місяців тому +2

    Absolutely beautiful

  • @marcellodantedealmeidanune9445
    @marcellodantedealmeidanune9445 8 місяців тому +1

    Davis, um gentleman inglês se destaca nessa regência pela elegância e discrição, adotando um ritmo lento e reflexivo bem adequado à obra de Williams. Ótima sonoridade e um equilíbrio perfeito à obra, com músicos muito bem ensaiados. Gostei muito.

  • @asupporter2883
    @asupporter2883 7 років тому +8

    A faultless performance of this great masterpiece. Thank you for posting.

  • @joyousmonkey6085
    @joyousmonkey6085 7 років тому +18

    I happened to play my CD of this symphony when my wife was in the middle of unloading the angst of her day. Within seconds she stopped and said it was like being transported to an English summer in the the countryside. Her angst drained away. Good old Ralph!

  • @michaelletellier218
    @michaelletellier218 4 роки тому +6

    This is a remarkable orchestra. It responds to conductors who elicit an appreciation of the finer points in a nuanced and honest style .. hence we can enjoy lovely performances. Thank you for sharing.

    • @lionsloin7869
      @lionsloin7869 4 роки тому

      they are a pleasure to watch, as well.

  • @mihohobaba
    @mihohobaba 4 роки тому +15

    What a lovely performance of this great symphony. Andrew Davis just "gets" Vaughan Williams.

    • @davidgriffiths7215
      @davidgriffiths7215 3 роки тому

      Absolutely. Sir Andrew's recording of RVW's Sixth with the BBCSO is one of the best ever (if not THE best) and freezes my blood every time I hear it.

    • @christophernunn943
      @christophernunn943 3 роки тому

      Yes I agree and also Andrew Manze bbc symphony orchestra is another world class performance also on UA-cam

    • @davidgriffiths7215
      @davidgriffiths7215 3 роки тому

      @@christophernunn943 Small correction. If you are thinking of the 2012 Proms performance Andrew Manze is conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    • @christophernunn943
      @christophernunn943 3 роки тому

      @@davidgriffiths7215 of course,,yes my mistake. What is your take on it?

    • @davidgriffiths7215
      @davidgriffiths7215 3 роки тому

      @@christophernunn943 Manze's performance is superb and worthy to stand alongside the greats like Boult, Barbirolli and Handley. I just wish I could have been in London that evening to hear him live.

  • @robclark4626
    @robclark4626 6 років тому +8

    Music to transcend all barriers and unite the human spirit.

  • @johnmitchell4838
    @johnmitchell4838 6 років тому +2

    I love the way he conducts the orchestra. He lets them get behind his beat just enough to get a relaxed sound in all the right places. Just wonderful.

  • @raffikio
    @raffikio 7 років тому +5

    written in time of war VW saw this work as a vision of the peace that we must hold dear. Wonderful playing by the orchestra and the tv recording is superb.

  • @charlesmartel7502
    @charlesmartel7502 7 років тому +9

    That first movement is one of the most perfectly constructed in the history of the form.

    • @annakimborahpa
      @annakimborahpa 6 років тому

      ... and emotionally satisfying as well with the dynamic arc reaching its climax in the recapitulation from 8:34 to 9:41. That extended cadential sequence starting at 9:21 is noteworthy as it clears the movement's final logjam before the slow harmonic rhythm of the coda initiates a return to the Prelude's opening tranquility. I would say the perfection of its construction rests upon twin pillars: (1) Sonata Allegro form and (2) an A-B-A dynamic scheme of Soft - Loud - Soft.

  • @sulukhan7794
    @sulukhan7794 2 роки тому +3

    Absolutely amazing so beautifully conducted superb marvellous

  • @rojapu
    @rojapu 3 роки тому +5

    Thank you for posting. Today this has helped me.

  • @captainbritain7379
    @captainbritain7379 4 роки тому +4

    The film composer John Powell spoke today of how much he loved this symphony. As a huge fan of his work, I was delighted to discover a lot of similarity between this and his music, and I look forward to listening to this many more times and exploring more of Vaughan-Williams’s work.

  • @williamrubinstein3442
    @williamrubinstein3442 3 роки тому +16

    Ar the first peeformance of this very great work in 1943, at its conclusion instead of applauding the audience sat in silence for three minutes before applauding- they had been overwhelmed by it. This was reported in newspapers at the time.

    • @ubergeraldine
      @ubergeraldine 2 роки тому +3

      I’m not surprised. The music is so evocative of what was happening in 1943. I’d love to know what the German audience thought of it because it reflects in every direction.

    • @johnvaughan7096
      @johnvaughan7096 2 роки тому

      I wasn't there

  • @volkerlamprecht6778
    @volkerlamprecht6778 6 місяців тому +9

    Rest In Peace, dear Sir Andrew Davis!

  • @alfredoechevarrieta7512
    @alfredoechevarrieta7512 5 років тому +6

    Excelente !!! Aplausos y Felicitaciones. Y también al público por su respeto.

  • @RobertJSedky
    @RobertJSedky 6 років тому +5

    Bravo such depth and wonderful humanity in this extraordinary performance. 👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

  • @TheLonghornDad
    @TheLonghornDad 2 роки тому +6

    I heard this piece played by the RundFunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin last night with Sir Andrew Davis conducting. He is very consistent with his style with this piece, he conducted it very similarly to this performance, and I especially like how the "Benediction" at the end of the Passicaglia (35:40) is gently faded to the conclusion. He holds that silence at the end. Very peaceful!

  • @studentjohn35
    @studentjohn35 3 роки тому +3

    One of the favorite compositions of the late British music educator Peter G. Fletcher (1936-1996)

  • @jamiestacey7862
    @jamiestacey7862 10 місяців тому +2

    Brilliant piece ❤

  • @TheWshutts
    @TheWshutts 3 роки тому +4

    I have to admit that I don't always get RVW, but I love this symphony! The modes and the changes take my breath away. It goes somewhere.