I enjoy matching images to music, using Windows Movie Maker. Some are light-hearted (records of holidays, etc) but some have a more serious intention. I hope others enjoy what I do and look forward to reading comments and responses.
I am sorry but no matter how often i listen to this work, and that has been for many years, I see nothing but rural, mountains and river scenes with sunrises and sunsets
So current and so ominous. Wars and rumors of war all around us. The storms of The End of Days are gathering. I am sorry--sorry for all who have already known blood and war. This anti-pastoral on a moving Sunday morning, a pastiche of past and future. I find comfort in another life, one much more glorious than this one.
Just when I've fallen in love with one piece of RVW music i find myself obsessed with a new one. This one will be on loop. A dreamy piece that takes you away from lifes difficulties. Thank goodness for his music, he was a genius. ❤❤
Divine, just divine ... I know many performances of this piece of music but this performance outshines them all, both musically and visually ... It is as if heaven is opening up and shedding its light upon us, poor mortals as we are, yet letting us share in heaven´s grace, ascending as larks ...
Beautiful music by Delius performed by The royal Philharmonic Orchestra & tasteful selection of impressionist paintings to accompany the music. Than you Colin for this wonderful inspiring video!
This is one of my favorite pieces of music. I have the score. I had no idea that there was a recording of Vaughan Williams actually conducting it. So I chased down a copy of the CD off of Discogs. By the way, the symphony is closely connected with his opera "Pilgram's Progress".
I was lucky to have been at the premiere at the Cabrillo Festival in 1982, and to have been invited to the after-party at Lou's place in the hills of Aptos, California, and to have known Lou through a composer friend who was studying with him at Mills College. It was a magical performance.
Thanks so much for your wonderful work on Vaughan William's Sea Symphony. Stirring music, ecstatic lyrics (with Walt Whitman being kept somewhat under control by Ursula V-W) and your fabulous visuals: sea paintings which cry out of pride and danger, and -- an absolute inspiration -- the Hubble pictures. Congratulations on creating an artwork which stands on its own merits. You lamented somewhere of the intrusion on RU-vid of ads. Don't worry; it does not appreciably decrease the effectiveness of your work and can, in any event, be avoided by paying for ad-free service
Colin, it's August 21, 2024 .............I jumped in and simply enjoyed the Romance by VW. Thanks again for this video ....................over 3.1K likes .......... Reply
A haunting song, well sung. Apparently there was a device used by male singers to sing, without creating an oxymoron, the obviously female lyrics of a song. In this song, it is done by the male singer telling how he "overheard my own true love" singing and then he proceeds to sing what she was reportedly singing. I was always a bit confused regarding the lyrics of this song, a song sung by Julie Christie in the 1967 rendition of "Far From The Madding Crowd" movie. In the song, the woman can't speak of anything important to the relationship without "her love" saying "nay" and permanently rejecting her, "he'll ne'er love me again." A very unnatural, unstable and abusive relationship, in my opinion.
Lou Harrison was one i the modern great american composer, who created a connection between western & eastern music. Only Colin Mcphee the canadian composer who was also into indonesian music had a similarity to this. I like this symphony. Very original & beautiful.
Nicola Benedetti has Elvis-like looks, or vice versa, of course. You choose. Sorry can't help myself. :) 1 Fantasia Tallis 2 Five variants 3 Lark Ascending Who cares. :)
I've got a doozie! It was 1987 when i was 18, a deckhand on an Oilfield utility boat of 110 ft in length. In the Gulf of Mexico and bringing a diving crew of marine welders to an oil platform. It was about 10pm and my captain was drunk and short of sleep. Cap charted a course for the trip and took the wheel out to the sea bouy where i would take over for most of the night. We were short the required minimum crew of two captains and two deckhands. It was the other deckhands first time on a boat. So captain instructed me to give him 5 hours sleep while i drive and the new deck hand would sleep in order to rest for his task of feeding the diving crew breakfast. A couple hours in to the trip and it starts getting rough which renders the compass useless as it just rocks and rotates every wave that hits. I did have radar which, like old weather radar is fine until cloud cover renders that useless as well. Then the lighting starts popping and the flash blinds me. I wasn't sure how such a situation was supposed to be handled but i remembered what that old drunk captain told me months before. He said shrimp boat people don't understand the rules and whatever i do, don't run into anything and don't let anything run into the boat. So with radar, compass and my vision voided, i throttled back. but not before leaving the wheel to run and remove the heavy shackle placed on the stern controls that was placed there to take up the slack in the old cable throttle system. I return to the wheel, throttle back hoping cap would notice and come help out. He didn't. I rode out the weather at half throttle and as the rain clouds subsided, i throttled back to full steam less the shackle on the stern. I gave the captain five and a half hours of sleep, then woke him up. All ended well, but i was exhausted. 18 years old!😁
Was standing at the front of the Albert Hall arena 2 nights ago when this was the main piece of that evening's Prom. What a performance, what a great piece of music. The second part was so moving, what a concert. Thank you RVW for such a wonderful piece of music. Thank you Henry wood for devising the Proms concerts.
Vaughan Williams is probably my favorite composer, and his symphony cycle is only rivalled by Mahler and Shostakovich in depth and the worlds they traverse to me. Consistently, the 3rd is the hardest symphony for me to come back to. It makes me extremely, irrepressibly sad. A requiem for all of the friends and colleagues Vaughan Williams lost in this barbaric, useless war.
I lived in London from the late '60s to the late '70s but sadly don't get up there much now. I love the combination of the music and paintings. Well done Colin🙏
Will be at the Proms tomorrow for this one. Ive heard lots of RVW at the Albert Hall - Tallis Fantasia, 5th and 6th, Job Masque for Dancing, Lark...but never this one. I don't know it well, but it's unmistakably RVW.
