Ralph Vaughan Williams - Folk Songs of the Four Seasons Suite - The Sprig Of Thyme
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- A rare and winning performance of little-known RVW works: "The Sprig of Thyme" & "The Lark in the Morning". We have Martin Yates and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to thank for this.
I took these pictures yesterday (26 May 2013) of various places in the Derbyshire Peak District.
From The Classical Review:
"Vaughan Williams wrote his Folk Song of the Four Seasons in 1949 for the women's voices of the National Federation of Women's Institutes. Roy Douglas, the man who did much to help Vaughan Williams by making fair copies of his appallingly untidy scores as well as replacing, to some extent, Gustav Holst as a sounding board, made a five movement orchestral suite from the work.
The Sprig of Thyme and the Lark in the Morning must be one of Vaughan Williams' loveliest folk song arrangements with a gently flowing melody".
The full review of the entire Album "Ralph Vaughan Williams - Early and Late Works: World Premiere Recordings" (a must have for RVW admirers IMHO) can be found here:
theclassicalrev...
Conductor: Martin Yates
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Recording Label: Dutton Epoch
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How right you are my dear,life in such lovely places is as sweet as Vaughan Williams wonderful music.
My ancestral homeland. Wish I could go back to stay.
Britain is a treasure trove of folk songs…
AH! First time hearing this music! How wondrous.
Music from a bygone era. Settles my blood pressure immediately!
A most wonderful comment Irina, with which I agree wholeheartedly from my soul; I thank you very much for it.
Ralph Vaughan Williams : Folk Music, Absolutely Beautiful !
There speaks a wise man. I have always felt the history of this lovely country close around me,sometime you can almost touch the past. Norfolk is glorious,big skies and wide horizons and the feeling of freedom. England is a beautiful place and we are lucky to be a part of ot,s fascinating history.
Thanks for this one , AntPDC. Both the music and visuals remind me of someone in my past. Although she has changed in many ways now, the memories of emotions felt over 40 years ago linger, thanks to this evocative music which never changes.
I've rambled a bit on Irish footpaths over peaty ground, up craggy yet gentle slopes, winding my way along the low limestone walls in search of what's around the next bend, and all across the Burren in brilliant sun intersperced with short bursts of rain. But never have I set foot on English countryside (London pavements and sidewalks I've walked simply do not count in this discussion), and I hope to do so some day.
I know now where the composer of The Hobbit found his inspiration... Very beautiful pictures and landscapes !
God, I love RVW!! I grew up in England and to me he epitomizes the unique beauty of the English countryside. I miss it so much!
Sandya... as an English expat it pleases me no end to know you hold memories of the green fields, meadows, woodlands and spinneys so dearly in your heart, just as I do.
My best wishes to you.
Poetic - do come to this part of England one day and give us more, following your visit.
Sincerely, Ant
Thanks for sharing your love of VW on UA-cam.
Beautiful music,this so apt for these lovely pictures of a wonderous area of England.
so beautiful.... morning in the Great Britain I love.....
Makes me want to visit England again!
Thank you Fairy. Yes, it is a little miracle which in a large way gives much happiness and optimism.
Nice one. Thank you for this video.
As always, I am glad of your appreciation John.
i don't know, was searching for slip knot and end up here, out of curiosity i thought i'de lend my ear to this, what can i say it's very beoutiful piece of music and i can only sit back with envy here, to each and everyone here, keep well and happy listening.
Absolutely beautiful. Reminds me of Ivor Gurney, who he studied with. What might Gurney have achieved, if not for the First World War and his wounds. Mental more than physical. What might have been?
I came back for a fix,this time I smiled.Bless you for that.
How can you not believe that there is a God , he is here . I hear him and see him and feel his love .
so wonderful... time to take a walk in the English countryside.
Thank You so much for uploading this and the pictures to go with it are something else..
Oh yes,thank you for taking me home.
why are you away? we need more people who appreciate this
I heard God,s voice that woke me up to listen to this incomparable song . 🍎
Your photos are magical, Ant❤️ !
So wonderful the visuals with the Ralph Vaughn Williams suite. Thank you so much for your generous post!
The music is refreshing as a walk in the English countryside. ❤️💔
Thank you very much Bella Donna. I'm currently preoccupied with my new flock of hens and various other non-internet stuff, but I do very much appreciate your sensitive comments. I did a Dives and Lazarus slideshow last January. Unable to post the link here, but if you do a web search on "antpdc dives vaughan" I think you will find it! Warmest wishes to you and yours,
Ant
AntPDC The Dives and Lazarus was incredible! ❤️ All if yours are on my Classical playlist! Thank you!
The search for work caused me to leave the Peaks 20 years ago,now I am disabled and my husband needs constant care ,because of these things I have not been home for some years,.even so my heart will always belong there and the wonderful music of my favourite composer and the superb photos of Ant PDC (may blessings lite on him) take me back there . I wonder what he could do with Dives and Lazarus.
Thank you again, Anthony for separating out the movements like this. The Sprig of Thyme can then be enjoyed by itself. I’ve played it over and over at least five times already.
Your breathtaking photography, always so astonishing. Makes us Yanks want to pick up stakes and move there. Your comment below about your “new hens.” makes it all the more alluring. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Wonderful stirring music and English meadows which never change,so much appreciated..
Ralph Vaughan Williams had a depth to his music that no other composer can come close to. Its an endless depth of musical genius. He didn't have the kind of brain that Mozart, Beethoven or Bach had, his genius was different for sure. This depth has been imitated many times over the years, and thankfully so, but still not coming close to the master Vaughan Williams.
I don't know weather to thank you or curse you. I love Vaughan Williams,and your photographs are beautiful. The combination made me so homesick that I cried for half an hour.
how very sensuous and unknown to me. With your magnificent could read as The Spring of Time!
I meant your magnificent photography could read as 'The Spring of Time'.!
THE MUSIC AND THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE BEAUTIFUL. THANK YOU FOR POSTING.
Will do. Might not be for several years, but eventually! BTW, my wind ensemble just played R.V.Williams' "English Folk Song Suite" (I play alto sax), and I have been unable since then to stop humming the memorable themes from that wonderful piece.
Japanese people love the nostalgic melody of Vaughan Williams among English music .
Because the nostalgic melody of Vaughan Williams fits Japanese emotions
I am grateful for your comment Sin-i-chi, thank you very much.
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You are welcome
Thank-you so much to your wonderful comments
Good luck ！
Someday please visit Japan in spring
The cherry blossoms in full bloom everywhere in Japan are beyond your imagination and beyond description
We want you to take part in the banquet under the cherry blossoms in full bloom
Be on the alert for Covid - 19
@@shin-i-chikozima One of these days I shall be privileged to visit beautiful Japan and witness for myself your extraordinary country, and the cherry blossom you mention. Best wishes to you and your family, Anthony.
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Thank-you so much to your wonderful comments
We wait for you
In mid-March
the cherry blossoms will be in full bloom one after another everywhere in Japan
Also
the season of tired of pollinosis has arrived .
The pollinosis is a Japanese national sick
:) Thanks Robert.
It is my pleasure, thanks Robert.
How lovely! Please could you post a vid of your wind ensemble playing RVW? Best wishes, Ant.
Thank you Fred :)
Thanks a lot Ant for sharing these two wonderful folk song arrangements by RVW... May I ask if you are aware where the full orchestral score may be available for purchase. I also enjoy very much your images selection and on this regard I would like to ask what software are you using to create the various zoom and camera moving effects. Many thanks and best regards, Max T.
Thank you very much Max. Perhaps this is what you are looking for apropos the score: www.sheetmusicwarehouse.co.uk/piano-solos-f/folk-songs-of-the-four-seasons-a-suite-for-small-orchestra-piano/
As for the software, I use ProShow Gold, by Photodex. I use only a tiny fraction of that software's bells and whistles! Best wishes, Ant.
Thankyou for another great sequence of photographs, - and more beautiful music! How do you achieve the very effective '3-D' effect, which is especially noticeable in the views that appear at 0:26 and 1:40? This particular piece of music deserves to be much more widely-known, - as in fact does the whole orchestral suite arranged by Roy Douglas. (Isn't there quite a well-known Christmas carol which is sung to the tune of "The Lark in the Morning", - which is similar in form to "The Holly and the Ivy" but a definitely different piece, - where each verse ends with the line: "......and the first tree in the greenwood it was the Holly"?)
+Robert Whittaker I do apologise Robert - I hadn't noticed your post. The "3D" effect you mention I can only explain by the slow fade slide transition I used (into a similar subject). And I completely agree with you as to the music. Best wishes.
The Sans Day Carol has similarities, and may be the tune you were thinking about.
... and I hope in a good way.
perhaps romanticism can comfort you. think about all those thousands in history displaced from their countries, let alone their villages they'd scarcely ever left, due to famine or conviction. you're part of our English diaspora. it often gives me a thrill when I look on a country lane and think im seeing something more or less the same as my ancestors centuries ago...Dives and Lazarus is among my favourites though im Norfolk rather than Peak..."in the fen country" is the one for me I guess
God’s own country , some of my Grandmothers family were born on the Ridgeway in Derbyshire ……they were sickle grinders …..John Elliott ….if you are related get in touch …