Excellent - did not of this composition before, thank you!

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".

Bradford, Delius' hometown, will be celebrating the city of culture 2025. i doubt if Delius will even get a mention

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.

Lovely thankyou .

You can see the Dreamer and the Creator in Ralph Vaughan Williams' face. His music so informs how they interact. My very favorite.

Beautiful, soothing and majestic music. I was stationed in North Yorkshire 1990-1992. Cheers, Colin.

Sounds like film music

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 KZbin 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 little bit of John Williams in the 1st movement

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.

Wow, you're good...love it.

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. :)

My first encounter with Delius, many years ago. Wonderful 😊

the trumpet at 13.43 is so haunting

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🙏

so beautiful.

Great music, great paintings to accompany :)

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.

You did well,Frederick

beautiful ❤

Shame non of the pictures are about the place where the music is set - Lincolnshire. Esp. Durham Cathedral!!!

Thank goodness for KZbin. Only Ralph Vaughan Williams I hear on classical radio is Theme on Thomas Tallis.

What glorious pastoral music he wrote.

Delius was right. Music begins where words and actions reach their uttermost limit of expression. Terrific in every way! (Thanks for the upload.)

Benedetti is one of the very best at this piece. Somehow, the British performers always seem to capture the spirit of the piece better than others. Too many (e.g., Hilary Hahn) don't seem to really get what the music is describing.

Thank you for this music and the wonderful artistry of well chosen photographs. It's very nostalgic for me.

They went from Celtic music to dubstep

Excellent visuals as well as the evocative music.

So beautiful and talented..Saw her on Young Musician🎻 of the year...Playing such a an evocative piece of music 🎵🕊️

7:42 is very Ravelian

First time to hear this piece Love Vaughan Williams but much prefer Walton's coronation Te Deum

Thank You. Thank You

I lost my wife suddenly in May this year. She went out for a walk one evening and never came back - her body was found on a beach nearby the next morning. We loved this music, and it evokes for us the beautiful Exmoor coastal and moorland scenery. I played it at her service in church and at her cremation service. It is so moving, and it comforts me to listen to it and remember our near 50 years together. May she rest in peace.

I read about Delius' "Brigg Fair" in Peter Watson's "Landscape of Lies", so I had to listen to it. The characters in the book mention Constable country, and that's just what I thought of while listening to this beautiful piece enhanced by paintings that reminded me of my trip to England many years ago. I found all of the artists and their works on Art UK's website, so I can now put a name to them. Perhaps I'll do it while listening to more Delius. Thank you, Colin, for this wonderful job.

I love Vaughan Williams' symphonies and there's no question that the three in the middle (4, 5, 6) make the greatest initial impression. All 3 are masterpieces. And yet, the two Vaughan Williams symphonies I find myself returning to most often are nos. 3 & 9, two of his least played. The 9th is elusive at first but really grows on you with repeated hearings. And it has so many memorable moments: the solo violin playing the 2nd theme in the first movement, the chamber arrangement of the subordinate theme at the end of movement 2, the diabolical saxophones in the scherzo - and that mystical, timeless finale. Unbelievable that an 86-year-old man wrote such a piece.

This wonderful symphony is a breath of fresh air in our life of less than 100 years in this transient world of so much hassle and annoyances

The feelings that boil over are revence for the composer and the music, nostalgic, comfort, and joy seeping into the heart

I haven't listened to this in a while, and it's so nice to come back with fresh ears and hear little nuances that I didn't remember from before...I got so very homesick listening tonight... next year I will come home for a visit! Thanks Colin!!

I've never heard this piece, nor known about it..thank you

Thankyou Colin from Pentland in FNQ Australia - the Magpies are intrigued and in the trees all around on this warm afternoon and enjoying it along with me - such devine music

Beautiful music

Thanks for posting this wonderful RVW composition... Richard Hickox was a master in executing RVW music and greatly missed. Many blessings, MaxT

Many thanks.I have always loved the music of Vaughan Williams.The images fully compliment the relaxing music.

Thank you for this. I listen to The Lark Ascending every morning before I start my day. There is no better piece of music to lift yet calm my spirits and prepare me for the stresses of the day ahead.