Ralph Vaughan Williams : Concerto for Oboe and Strings. Henry Herbert La Thangue : Paintings.

[@annfarmer7966]

As they say, 'every picture tells a story', and while La Thangue's paintings are so evocative of English country life, the story of an English countryside now lost to us can be glimpsed in the nostalgic tones of RVW's music. Beautiful.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This oboe’s sound is felt yearning and nostalgia

[@mollieyaxley8215]

Everything breathtakingly beautiful, music, pictures, it brings tears to the eyes. Values were different then, perhaps with this pandemic they’ll come back again.

[@bushkin2]

Thank you for sharing; we are happily carried away to a feeling of contentment. The buzz of a work day, the ease at day’s end. Beautiful🎶

[@davidharris2844]

Pleasure, glad you enjoyed the video.

[@jokesterk5302]

It is such a pleasure watching these marvelous paintings come by,accompanied by this fine music! Thanks,for sharing.

[@davidharris2844]

Glad you're finding a few videos you like. I enjoyed putting them together.

[@peterjhillier7659]

Wonderful, dear RVW we are so lucky to have his Music, which provides an eloquent description of the beautiful Paintings.

[@BlueRidgeMtns100]

David Harris, many thanks for putting together and sharing such beauty.

[@davidharris2844]

It's a pleasure, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

[@malena3669]

Hi.Mr.Harris...Divine V.Williams!☆beautiful and sweet concert with Oboe!and the images needless to say!..cute cute!I tell you that country life is wonderfully fresh and the magic of its natural colors enriches the soul and makes you happy, with kind and simple people! Mr.Harris...Thank you very much for this beautiful work of yours❗️🌟🧡👌👍👏👱‍♀️💯🎅🎄🎅🎄‼️ Mr.Harris...you receive my warm greetings and a rose from mom's garden⚘️They are so pretty with the morning dew‼️...Malena☆

[@davidharris2844]

Hi Malena, glad you enjoyed the video. I too like the oboe and feel it particularly suits this piece. The paintings hark back to a time when people lived in rhythm with nature and were more at one with it. Hope all is well with you. Best wishes.

[@malena3669]

​​​@@davidharris2844Thanks for the exhibition!☆☆ Greetings from my windy, windy field, we are still very windy!☆🐎👱‍♀️👌🎄🎅🎄🌟🎄💯🎄❗️

[@JohnBassDunnahoo]

David Harris these pieces of Beautiful Music and Beautiful Artwork on your videos have captured my heart. I found the first one yesterday and now I am looking for more. Thank you Sir

[@davidharris2844]

Pleasure, glad you're enjoying the channel John.

[@JohnBassDunnahoo]

@ yes Sir I subscribed this morning looking forward to catching up on what you have published already.

[@baroqueman1]

Such evocative paintings that match the music excellently, also.

[@Belfreyite]

As much as I love English music, I confess to knowing very little of our Art heritage. HH La Thangue's work is really good and much valid. A love of Frederick Delius brought me to artist John Atkinson Grimshaw whom I equally admire. A great deal of English music is Romantic and Pastoral. We should treasure it more and fall back in love with it.

[@sidpheasant7585]

On a visit to the Musee d'Orsay in Paris (where they charge you good money to enter, but then start herding you - sheeplike - to the exit 30-40 minutes before the official closing time!), we found they had a small room with a few British paintings, giving us to understand that they really did not rate. Needless to say, a ton of French paintings can be found in (typically free-of-charge) British art galleries. However, if pressed, the French are prepared to admit that Art Nouveau evolved out of the (British) Arts and Crafts Movement, as well as the Pre-Raphaelite painters, while the Impressionism they boast about also came from England. A part of the transfer process came as French painters fled the fighting in the Franco-Prussian war to spend time in southern England. [By the way we might also note that Paris Haute Couture in fashion was also started by a Brit from Lincolnshire - Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895)] [French composer Maurice Ravel was a teacher of Vaughan Williams, and he noted that the latter was the only pupil "that does not write my music"] Although La Thangue obviously has a French name, his dad Richard was also British-born (at Southwark) and any Frenchness is probably noted two generations further back]

[@LKemp-lr1ky]

A typical RVW masterpiece! Thank you!!!

[@davidharris2844]

Pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.

[@shodanart]

Thank you for posting this epic journey by Vaughn Willians. 💔❤️

[@davidharris2844]

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks, as always, for taking the time to comment Rusty.

[@christinecraig7473]

This is wonderful. Thank you.

[@davidharris2844]

It's a pleasure, I'm glad you enjoyed it Christine.

[@deborahjablonski3920]

Hi David, I have long since college been in love with RVW, but I had mostly played " The Lark... and Five Dives... Greensleeves etc. I have heard selections from folk songs and sea songs, however could not name them. Thank you once again for expanding my listening pleasure and for taking the time to present perfect artwork in conjunction with wonderful music. Be well.😋

[@davidharris2844]

Glad you enjoyed the video Deborah and that you're finding new things to listen to. One of my favourite pieces by Vaughan Williams is his adaptation for organ of the Welsh hymn tune Rhosymedre, (arranged for orchestra by Arnold Foster), which I've uploaded elsewhere on the channel. I just think it's a lovely tune. Best wishes.

[@deborahjablonski3920]

@@davidharris2844 Thank you David, I will take any and all recommendations from you! You have keen sense of musical taste. Feel free to let me know of any favorite, in the meantime I will attempt the gift you recommend. I like your taste in art and music.😛

[@mmbmbmbmb]

THANK YOU for your utterly beautiful presentation. Such sensitivity! One can look forward to more!

[@davidharris2844]

And thank you Karin for your continuing interest. I find some of these paintings quite magical, the one at about 7.12 of the woman carrying a sheaf of wheat by moonlight takes my breath away.

[@frankcline3074]

Thank you for this concert. The paintings of La Thangue felt very fitting for the occasion. I had never heard of this artist. Beautiful. 15:37 15:40

[@davidharris2844]

Pleasure, glad you enjoyed the video Frank.

[@jorgesavarino7430]

Me gustan mucho los conciertos para oboe ; que en sumatoria son todos para mostrar al ejecutor.Este tiene algo más.Tipica música deR.VW.Maravilloso.Me encanta el oboe.Ojala hubiera aprendido a manejarlo.Y justamente este concierto.Gracias

[@davidharris2844]

Es un placer, me alegro de que lo hayas disfrutado Jorge.

[@gabrieru1983]

Among my favorite RVW´s works...........It´s a shame he didn´t compose more concertos for wind instruments (excluding the Tuba Concerto of course).

[@mikef5881]

Why? I LIKE the Tuba Concerto!

[@alanhodge8200]

the music beautiful the artwork thought provoking my ancestors came from Wilford, Nottingham, near Sherwood Forest

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This melody is beyond description , inspirational , graceful and comfortable to the ear and the mind Without Vaughan Williams , the English music would have been very lonely and insipid and the enjoyment and pleasures of the English music would have been less From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

[@quantummath]

👌 Awesome

[@BarbaraNitsche]

Just one word 🔺BEAUTIFUL 18:39 🔺 THANKS ‼

[@davidharris2844]

Pleasure, glad you enjoyed the video Barbara.

[@BarbaraNitsche]

@@davidharris2844 🌞🌞🌞

[@janhalldin]

Many thanks and greetings!

[@davidharris2844]

Pleased you enjoyed it Jan. Greetings to you.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

I can't hold back the moving whirlpool that heat up . 🍎

[@germanquintero10121946]

MARAVILLOSA

[@edwardbarnes2702]

Pure escaping , just to shut your eyes and let your own imagination go’s where it wants, essentially in this day & age. 🤓

[@laurentb8720]

If you shut your eyes, you won't see the pictures 😂

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Watching the cat a sleeping makes me feel better

[@shin-i-chikozima]

@@malena3669 Good Morning Tokyo is very cold See you again

[@philipgillibrand832]

Wonderful music which speaks of the air and of a bird’s flight over the English countryside. The pictures are too heavy, forgive me saying. A big thank you nevertheless.

[@davidharris2844]

Glad you enjoyed it, if only up to a point.

[@philipgillibrand832]

Thank you for your kind and understanding reply. I’m sorry to be negative about what are lovely pictures and I’m so grateful for your collections of fantastic music. It is difficult in a few words to convey one’s meaning. Music and art are so closely connected each giving deeper meaning to the other. This wonderful music speaks to me subjectively of beautiful English skies in early Spring and the flight of the swallow rather than of people and the earth. Keep up the good work, especially as Radio 3 is now largely finished. Philip

[@davidharris2844]

@@philipgillibrand832 Hi Philip, and thank you for continuing to support the channel. There really is no need to be sorry for expressing an honest opinion though. Music is such a subjective thing that what we receive from it is inevitably at variance with what others do. And, doubtless, at variance with what the composer intended us to receive. Best wishes.

[@emelless5365]

@@philipgillibrand832I do see what you mean now that you mention it.Did you mean you would prefer someone like John Constable perhaps?I myself was enjoying the superb artwork but it did bring to mind how the peasants toiled and must have gone hungry if the weather was not kind, and some of the paintings were rather sad.Such is life.Beautiful music though.

[@philipgillibrand832]

@@emelless5365 Sorry for the slow response. I was not thinking of Constable, but those artists of the impressionist school with a light etherial touch concentrating on sky scenes, perhaps in the Norfolk countryside, where the sky prevails over the land. Pathetic answer I know as I ought to name at least one. I’ll have a think! Thank you though for taking the time to respond. We are united by the greatest and only international language, music.

[@AtaZxd]

Artista que é?

[@davidharris2844]

Henry Herbert La Thangue.

[@paulgriffiths3082]

Oh the simple life long gone, I bet they were more content with their lives than we are today with our hi tech living, everyone rushing around on the hamster wheel and getting nowhere, real values have been lost, I think I was born into the wrong era

[@liegesaboya8265]

Pudera ter nascido no Tahiti antes da chegada dos europeus . Ou no Rio , em 1400 .

[@johnllewlyndavies222]

Depends on whether you were drinking the wine or treading the grapes!

[@gumpy4960]

I don’t understand the rush that some conductors are in, parts of this are played way too fast.