Beautiful! This Boston born Brit-American i.e. "Anglophile" and pianist/composer of an American folk opera loves the works of Ralph Vaughn Williams! Gets my English blood going! Remember the great conductor Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops! Cheers~ ♥🎹🎵🎼💙
@@MrDaiseymay I certainly do! Very proud of my British/English heritage with some Scottish, so was my late mom! And so was her mother, my late grandmother also proud of her Irish ancestry...Violet Harrington was her name born in Pawtucket Rhode Island in 1887.
When I first started school in the mid ‘50’s we would have a school assembly every morning. Classical music would be played via a record player and invariably it always seemed to me to be this VW suite. I guess this suite has been part of my life now in excess of 60 years.
Nice memory recall Dave. I started school in 1946, and can remember school's Radio music sessions, and sometimes Classical music on a Record player, up until the mid 50's, but can't recall which.
I honestly think this might be the best recording of this suite out there, certainly the best on YT. Only thing I can't understand is how it took me seven years to find!
I had to give up my 10 yr conducting career/dream recently. Had I kept going, I had this piece (Jacob's transcription, and the original Wind Band piece) as dream pieces to conduct.
I first heard this piece of music about 40 years ago when I purchased one of my first CDs that was Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. It has remained one of my favorites for all these years. Talk about Serendipity, I would never have purchased a CD based on Vaughn Williams, because I'd never heard of him. I'm so very glad my parents loved classical style music. "Classical" being to them, and to me by upbringing, anything requiring an orchestra or full band. I looked him up recently and found to my amusement that he was good friends with another one of my favorite composers, Gustav Holst. I became familiar with his Suite for Military Band #2 when the concert band I was part of in Ventura, CA played it while I was in the 9th grade, having been asked to audition by my junior high music instructor Mr. Robert Barnum.
Possibly even the very best. He treats the music with complete respect, shapes everything carefully, and I would say that could well perhaps be even better than Boult or some such conductor.
Along the same vein, try the Irish Suite by Leroy Anderson, also with the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler. I guarantee that you will get much of the same pleasure out of it.
Wonderful music by Ralph Vaughan Williams; played by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. While Fiedler programmed and recorded mostly pops music/light classics, he was also capable of being a fine conductor all-around. Fiedler made a fine recording of Dvorak's 9th.
As a life-long listener of classical music, there is something special about English music that I just love so much compared to German and Austrian ones.
Agreed. Unlike other countries, England wasn't plagued by the modernist atonal craze of the early 20th century, so we got plenty of amazing music from Vaughan Williams, Holst, Grainger, Gordon Jacob, and William Walton.
MANY NONE BRITISH PEOPLE HAVE SAID THAT, DESPITE OUR IMAGE ,AS LACKING IN EXPRESSIVE EMOTIONAL STATEMENTS. A LOT OF OUR MUSIC IS ROMANTICALLY, EXPRESSIVE IN TONE.
#SEMPER FIDELIS #QUA PATET ORBIS #JE MAINTAN DRAI ! ♫♪ great ♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @/bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous banding! Compliments! #SEMPER FI #QPO #JMD🎵🎼🎼🎶🎵🥁🎺👌👌🙏🙏🎺 Robert Schumann Quote : Composing something real unique is writing down a melody/set of notes that no one else ever had done before.... ♫♪
Beautiful music ... The romance of a green and pleasant land the longing to return to a simpler time... but was it a better time? maybe it was, smaller communities where everyone knew everyone’s business. Maybe that was conducive to better law and order? But for with the destruction of,wildlife and decimation of fields hedgerows of wildflowers and the direct impact on the honey bee.... is this really progress?
