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Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote his Symphony No. 5 in D major between 1938 and 1943. In style it represents a shift away from the violent dissonance of his Fourth Symphony, and a return to the gentler style of the earlier Pastoral Symphony. Many of the musical themes in the Fifth Symphony stem from Vaughan Williams's then-unfinished operatic work ...
26 April 1951. (1951-04-26) Royal Opera House, London. The Pilgrim's Progress is an opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams, based on John Bunyan 's 1678 allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. The composer himself described the work as a 'Morality' rather than an opera. Nonetheless, he intended the work to be performed on stage, rather than in a church or ...
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910, rev. 1913 and 1919) Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (1934) [6] (for string orchestra and harp; arranged by Ralph Greaves from Vaughan Williams's treatment of folk tunes in his opera Sir John in Love) Two Hymn Tune Preludes (1936) for small orchestra: 1. Eventide; 2. Dominus regit me.
Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (/ ˌreɪf vɔːn ˈwɪljəmz / ⓘ RAYF vawn WIL-yəmz; [1][n 1] 12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by ...
A Sea Symphony is an hour-long work for soprano, baritone, chorus and large orchestra written by Ralph Vaughan Williams between 1903 and 1909. The first and longest of his nine symphonies, it was first performed at the Leeds Festival in 1910 with the composer conducting, and its maturity belies the relatively young age – 30 – when he began ...
A London Symphony is the second symphony that Ralph Vaughan Williams composed. The work is sometimes referred to as Symphony No. 2, though the composer did not designate that name for the work. First performed in 1914, the original score of this four-movement symphony was lost and subsequently reconstructed. Vaughan Williams continued revisions ...
Curwen edition of the Tallis Fantasia orchestral score. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, also known as the Tallis Fantasia, is a one-movement work for string orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The theme is by the 16th-century English composer Thomas Tallis. The Fantasia was first performed at Gloucester Cathedral as part of the 1910 ...
The 1949 documentary film The Dim Little Island (dir. Humphrey Jennings) features extracts from this work, together with the voice of Vaughan Williams himself.At one point a solo folk singer begins the tune—and the string arrangement gradually comes up beneath him.