'Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis', by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2012
- This is a legendary recording from 1963, with Sir John Barbirolli conducting the Sinfonia of London in the Church of the Knights Templar, at midnight!!
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Slow strings is what Barbirolli famous for. This is the most wonderful interpretation I have listened to and it's done in 1963, few years before I was born. EMI had really great engineers at that time.
Yes indeed, they most certainly did. So many examples of this being true. I had at least couple of said recordings from that era. One was Sir John Barbarolli's of Vaughn Williams 5th. Again the drama of the ensemble string playing is magnificent. And the huge Muti on EMI of the Tchaikovsky Manfred. Way under-rated. A long and complete monster of a work. Highly satisfying and a spectacular work of engineering.
I forgot ... This is a matter of carrying, bearing the torch, the tradition! And certainly, Ralph Vaughan Williams did! And so wonderfully!!!! And ... Barbirolli! ... A true master!!!
im not familiar with classical music however i accidentaly tuned into a classic fm and heard a piece of music that took me out of this world and into a better place..............i quickly took down the name of the piece(or what i could because it was said quickly and i didnt pick up the full name). Anyway a bit of trial and error and ive FOUND it. Thankyou so much. This is another form of prayer for me.
Barbirolli captures the total majesty of this great music. Bravo!
Yes, I agree. He also brings out its passion and intensity as well as the mystery.
It was this recording that introduced me Vaughn Williams.
And I was hooked with first 12 seconds of the recording 50 years ago.
My favourite recording of this magnificent piece.
Yes, it has that effect on me, too. You can't do anything else when this is playing. it transports you to another place, a better place - one of serenity and otherworldy beauty. Yum!
The sound is very clear. Pictures are fabulous good . Performance is exquisite.
ethereal..other worldly sound that the acoustics of this location created..and the tremendous job the engineers did to capture this sound and only vinyl can replicate the broad scope of the sound so intriguingly....
Truly legendary! And most wonderful! I've always loved the music from Tallis via the elisabethans - Byrd, Weelkes, Bennet ... and John Dowland for a time a courtcomposer at the Danish Court (King Christian IV) and further to Purcel ... and George Friedrich Händel (the English style in his works comes from this). There is a certain "thing" with English music at that time ... strong, expressive and yet so wonderfully sincerely inwards (inderligt) and urgent, penetrating one's soul - ever so moving! I love it!!! 😘
Hey Mimibarn,
Thanks for your beautiful comment. Yes, this piece had the same effect on me when I first heard it. I've heard many versions, but none so ethereal and yet passionate as this midnight recording from 1963. Yes, it is like a kind of prayer. It feels like a yearning, a wish sent out to something greater than ourselves for things to be... better. It never fails to move me. So glad you like it. The fact you have benefited from it makes the tedious process of uploading well worth it :-)
Grazie signor Scot Peacock; grazie per averci offerto la traccia di questo gioiello. Buona Pasqua, e sia tempo di pace. Come pace esce da questa armonia. Tullio G. Aizza, Friuli, Italia.
Grazie, Signor :-)
So beautiful. I’ve only just discovered this. Thank you.
I never get tired of listening to the first 13 seconds
What an incredible, incredible performance! I love this piece, and have many recordings, but this may be the best I've ever heard, and that's saying something given some of the historical performances that are recorded. But, this, this is just transcendent. Thank you so much for sharing! ♡♡♡
My favourite piece. Nice images too, specially 4:07 onwards. Thanks.
Another splendid posting from Scot Peacock. Thank you! This piece transports you to another realm. Otherworldly. Whoever thinks they dislike "Classical Music" needs to hear this.
Thanks, E Mack. I usually think, "each to their own", but when it comes to music as lovely and as moving this, I have to agree with you - how can anyone NOT like it?
Without a doubt, the finest performance of this work I've heard. For all its lush textures and beautiful melodic lines, this is not a calm piece of music but an intense or even tense one, full of violent contrasts. More than any other conductor I've heard, Barbarolli brings conflict to the fore in this interpretation. This is clearly the work of the same mind that gave us the devastating 6th symphony. Wonderful!
ChannelNameIntentionallyLeftBlank それはなんともうらやましい限りですよ‼️さようなら。ごきげんよう。長いお別れです。Greetings from Japan . Sayonara ！ So long .
I was recently asked to name my favorite piece of (visual) art ever. I couldn't do it. But if someone asked me to name my favorite piece of music, it would only take me a nanosecond. It's this version of the Tallis fantasia, hands down, no question. I can't listen to it without breaking into tears, although I can't explain why. I like to think my parents had this playing when they made me (the timing of the orignal recording is about right), thus it's somehow fused into my DNA. Anyway, thanks very much for posting this, Scot. And I loved reading the comments from all the others here who love it too.
Something special which I never heard before. Enjoyed it & the art work along with it.
Thanks, William. I'm very glad you've had the joy of discovery; and what a discovery! It's a very beautiful piece of music.
4:16
“But all this is nothing
for now in my hand
Is the very key
To the golden land!
For no man can take it
no matter how great
Unless he possesses
these…three…balls…of….. *fate!* “
You're welcome, Sabina. I'm happy you like this piece. It is one of my favourites. It is so full of deep feelings: tenderness, ache, yearning, searching... actually, it's hard to find the right words. Best just to sit back and surrender to it :-)
Sir John conducting w/ Vaughn Williams' widow in attendance. He would have been giving his all. VERY special recording. When some nose-in-the-air "expert" says where are the great British symphonists, I would give them this or his 5th and say show me something more from the heart. Thank you Scot.
Hear hear! :-)
I concur!
Wonderful
Thanks. You're very welcome. So glad you like it.
Yes, this is such a beautiful and passionate performance. Somehow they managed to convey intense spiritual yearning along with a shimmering sense of far-off otherwordliness. A miracle! It was performed in the Church of the Knights Templar at midnight! Vaughan Williams' widow, Ursula, was present at the recording. A very special moment, captured in gorgeous, warm analogue sound.
Oh, and I think Richard Feynman totally rocks too :-)
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Thank you Scot
Brilliant.
+Hailstormand Isn't it a wonderful piece of music :-)
TY very much Scot Peacock ... for this wonderful gift!! Have a nice day :)
Beautiful!
I always feel like I'm sitting in an English Abbey when I hear this piece.
Yes, I feel that, too. Very evocative.
Esha Chadha 素晴らしい演奏と作品と絵画ですよね‼️さようなら。ごきげんよう。長いお別れです。Greetings from Japan . Sayonara ！ So long .
really beautiful! and powerful in an especially delicate yet minimalistic way.
Tnx.
would be great to give info/credit to the paintings used!!!
Perhaps my favourite piece of music in perhaps the best performance ever recorded. Thank you seems so inadequate....
Hi Graeme, Thank you for your appreciation; or were you thanking Uncle Rafe? :-D
There is something very special about this recording. The only one that comes close that I know of is Andrew Davis conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Scot Peacock
Scot, there is a Sir Adrian Boult with the LPO recording in mono from the late 50's that is slightly shorter in length but at times even more ethereal. PYE re-channelled it (or whatever..?) for stereo and although the purists pour scorn upon, I find it so very rewarding. I always find Boult's interpretations of VW's work incredibly compelling. Like Beecham in Delius.
I'll have a rummage for that one. Thank you :-)
I do like Boult's recordings of VW. However, I feel Barbirolli had that magical touch with almost everything he did with VW, especially the Tallis and the London Symphony :-)
Scot Peacock
Boult's mastery lies more in the incidental pieces and tone poem's, etc. Well, in my ill-informed opinion anyway. The Wasps Overture, Old King Cole, The English Folk Song Suite (although Marriner is very good in this too), Elihu's Dance of Youth and Beauty from Job. The 'Indian Summer' recordings that Boult made in the 70's are not those I refer to but those made throughout the fifties with the LPO which were issued by Belart a while back. Barbirolli's Greesleeves is also fabulous but I almost prefer Boult's of the aforementioned period. Additionally, Anthony Collins deserves so much more recognition in VW but especially in Delius, another area where Barbirolli excels but then there is Beecham. What was it RVW called Barbirolli? Glorious John? Sorry to go on so, old chap....
Graeme Fraser Not at all! It's great hearing your opinions and your knowledge (ill-informed you are not!)
I'll have a look out for Boult's 50s recording. I must admit, I've always been a bit prejudiced with the older (and likely, mono) recordings. But I think Boult was at his best earlier on. I've yet to hear his earlier recordings of the Planets. His one from 1966 with the New Philharmonia, so they say, trumps his much-lauded 70s recording with the London Phil. Mind you, I think one exception to that is his 71 recording of the Enigma Variations. That is simply brilliant!
So, yeah, I'll have a lookout for the Belart recordings.
And yes, 'Glorious John' was Uncle Rafe's nickname for Barbirolli. He dedicated his 8th symphony to him. I have a release from 1992 of Glorious John conducting VW's Symphonies 2 and 8, recorded in 1956 and 58. Wonderful, wonderful performances; and I think those recordings have been remastered again by John Dutton, who's made a great name for himself restoring the glow and clarity of old recordings.
The Thief and the Cobbler
Wow, now there’s a rare film that’s hardly ever mentioned.
@@ScotPeacock it's an animated tale that was never finished. it was created by Richard Williams. (the Oscar-winning animator of Who Framed Roger Rabbit) this song was played in the end credits.
@@benrobson3442we need to get the one for the beginning
Found this post almost by accident! I've had the Barbirolli version on LP for 30 years and I NEED to get the CD. Believe it or not the tune that brought me back to this was from a video game. We were discussing the great soundtrack from a game called "Skyrim" and one of the tracks stood out in particular and reminded me of RVW. Its the third track and its called "From Past To Present". Now I'm not putting it into RVW's league, but I sure did hear his spirit in it. Skyrim Full Soundtrack (1080p HD)
Hey Flickmark.Thank you for the heads-up about Skyrim. I'll check out the music. Some soundtracks for games are pretty epic. Yeah, perhaps not quite in the same league as the great composers, but they're still powerful and maybe great works of art.
The album has been re-mastered and is now available in its latest incarnation here...
www.amazon.co.uk/English-String-Music-EMI-Masters/dp/B005FVFWMU/ref=sr_1_8?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1413199929&sr=1-8&keywords=elgar+vaughan+williams+string+barbirolli
I have the CD release from 2000, part of EMI's Great Recordings of the Century series. That's the recording on this UA-cam post. The 2011 release also includes Delius' Brigg Fair, so it's even better value.
Also, if you want to accurately re-enact your years with this album, it is also available as a new high-quality vinyl pressing...
www.amazon.co.uk/Elgar-Vaughan-Williams-English-String/dp/B004QOEB3S/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1413199929&sr=1-3&keywords=elgar+vaughan+williams+string+barbirolli
I used to be an adventurer like you but I took an arrow to the knee!
Really? An actual arrow wound? How?
+Scot Peacock Let me guess, somebody stole your sweetroll.
+Scot Peacock sorry Scot - only just saw this cos of the latest comment - I don't think it always notifies me when people reply. Nah - I was just kidding - that's a meme from Skyrim - it's a phrase that a lot of characters say throughout the game.
Certainly a magnificent performance, but my favorite recording of this masterpiece is the 1959 Malcolm Sargent recordings with Philharmonia. When talking about classic old performances of British music most people always get stuck with Boult or Barbirolli (for whom both I have great respect and admiration). But most simply ignore the great contribution Malcolm Sargent made to the recording of British music. I also prefer his Walton Symphony no 1 recording over the much acclaimed Previn recording.
A very fine version indeed! I would also give a shout out to Mark Elder's crack at it a few years ago. And I adore the second Andrew Davies version, the one they did in Gloucester Cathedral.
Ralph Vaughan Williams:Fantázia egy Thomas Tallis témára
Sinfonia of London
Vezényel:Sir John Barbirolli
Ah yes, Mr Dutton, we do indeed have much to thank him for! I have a number of his discs mostly featuring Beecham 'lollipops'. I'm sure another of my Dutton discs is a sympathetic restoration of Decca's early FFRR recordings. It features Boyd Neel conducting the Enigma Variations, In the South, Pomp Circumstance 3 & 5 and what is, for me, a highlight, two of the songs from The Starlight Express sung by a chap whose name I forget but in a rather unique style of received pronunciation which is great fun. 'Tis the singing equivalent of a 50s BBC presenter voicing his best Queen's English.
The Beulah label seems another treasure trove of magnificence but I have only come across the odd part recording or 'bleeding chunk' on UA-cam.
Certainly Boult in The Planets is not to be bettered but I am ignorant of the version I have so must check which it is. 'Tis coupled with the Enigma variations on EMI and is a joy as you say but I do have rather a sacrilegious soft spot for Pierre Monteux with the LSO (what, a Frenchman doing Elgar, I hear you cry!). The genteel pace and silky smooth, airy start to Nimrod is quite moving and brilliantly done. I first heard it on a thrift store purchase which cost me the princely sum of 50p for a nice thick slice of Decca vinyl. T'was Monteux who referred to Beecham as Le Grand Baton, I believe.
I wish you joy of Glorious John's performances of said works and must investigate them for myself - thanks for the tip, good sir. I must admit to not having delved into the symphonies nearly as much as I should have.
Lastly, listening to Classic FM today revealed that Anne-Marie Minhall's favourite piece of music is the Tallis Fantasia and she will be voting for it as her no.1 choice in their hall of fame. I'm not one for charts much but I do applaud the lady's choice!
Ha ha, Monteux conducting Elgar: your reaction made me laugh :-)
I have heard few recordings by Monteux. What I have heard was, predictably, French repertoire and mostly Ravel.
This is the Boult recording I was talking about. Sounds interesting...
www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/march99/holst.htm
Such an incredible masterpiece. It's a bit frightening to think what was he feeling and thinking, what could have moved him before composing this. I have so many questions now...
Wouldn't it be amazing to sit with him after hearing this and have a chat. If only! :-)
Just so amazingly moving.
AAAABSOLLUTELYYYY! :-)
Of course this is arguably the best recording (as is his Enigma Var.) but why only 8000+ hits when the Davis one gets over 300,000????? But that's the sad fact of You Tube's listeners who follow their Callas and Gould recordings without ever exploring the road to many other even greater artists like Rosa Ponselle or Myra Hess and Edwin Fischer.
Aye, but at least these alternatives are now available for them to hear. All hail You Tube :-D
Makes me happy and has since 1969. Sir John was a fine interpreter and the orchestra was beautiful. Vaughan Williams was a master of string arrangements.
EEEEEEEEEPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Sabina Miguel It is so beautiful. I'm glad it moves you too :-)
I doubt there will be a better use of Tallis' "Tune from Archbishop Parker's Psalter". And this interpretation is the best I've heard thus far. I have a disc of the Academy-of St. Martin-in-the Fields conducted by the most eminent Sir Neville Marriner (with Iona Brown) which is good but not as good as this one. There appears to be a digital remaster done of this (?) recording in 2000, and i'm buying the CD to find out. If you have any input, Mr. Peacock, as to whether the digital remaster is indeed of this recording, please let me know.
As far as I know, the most recent mastering has been the "Great Recordings of the Century" release by EMI from the year 2000. Excellent sound. That's the version I have on this UA-cam up load. Very cheap on Amazon, 2nd hand...www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003ZKRL/ref=nosim/bestbook-21?dev-t=D10SBASHC4I9Q1&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&SubscriptionId=1BW5SQWXHT1FXDBZGW02&tag=bestbook-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00003ZKRL
This "EMI Masters" release from 2011 also has Delius' Brigg fair added to the line-up. According to the reviews it is a re-mastering that's closer to the original vinyl sound than the one I previously recommended to you...www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005FVFWMU/ref=pd_cp_15_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=13B9RCR0RQNPACAE2BKN
Is getting goosebumps from this video a good thing? :)
Jim P definitely yes. Everyone gets goosebumps from this magnificent composition and recording.
one can see tha cnturies of Britsh remarkabL hstory unfoLd bfor one's eys wiLe Knth CLark, David Starky and Simon Schama narrate
I can imagine this :-)
ndeed
This famous recording is in fact a bit pushy and sentimentalized, sounding like someone with emotional baggage they’re trying to deal with; the work’s harmonic subtlety comes second here.
I think the emotional baggage is yours...