Ralph Vaughan Williams - Dark Pastoral for Cello & Orchestra

[@dilltdog1158]

My grandad, like me, a working class man, introduced me to this music as a child in the early 1960's. The music of Mr. Vaughan - Williams has remained with me throughout my life and always delivered great pleasure and will always continue to do so. It has sustained me through hard times, strikes, unemployment, divorce, and sound tracked the happy times, family holidays by the sea, treks across moorland and heath. It pops, unbidden, but like an old friend, into my mind and heart when I look at the sea, golden fields of barley and wheat, or soaring birds in clear blue skies. Thank you Mr. Vaughan- Williams and grandad Jack for a lifetimes musical love.

[@michaelcunningham3540]

Well said.listen to the best classical composer ever sir"

[@helenalldridge1145]

Beautifully said. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@Deliquescentinsight]

I know that Ralph V. Williams was a man of great human feeling, he understood melancholia and our struggle to live, just beautiful music, what a gift he is to us all

[@jackhogan1280]

I'm listening to this for the first time, while still reeling from the news that a dear friend of mine, my music teacher, has died. It fits my mood perfectly, better than any words can.

[@rrozoff1]

Bless you both.

[@aislingbridcarberry]

By listening to this piece, it would encourage you to write beautiful poetry

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Vaughan Williams'melody has a special appeal to the Japanese hearts Vaughan Williams'melodies have a unique nostalgic feel that touches the hearts of Japanese people From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

[@Deliquescentinsight]

This might be so, but his music is essentially British, his musical soul is a product of English life,but music is a universal language, your statement reinforces this.

[@RobertLocksley385]

We're a simple landed people, yours and mine, but with a similar history of islanders struggling for nationhood. However all we both look for is "a small measure of peace that all men seek, and few ever find" to quote a certain film. The works of RVW call to us because they're the sounds of such themes from a time in which our people gave much to achieve something like that peace that we might enjoy the fruits of such a thing, and thereby still hear RVW in our time as it was in those days. It's good that your people still hear this and not just enjoy it, but also find something spiritual in it as our people did in those days. 元気でね、友よ

[@michaelcunningham3540]

This music touches all people 😊

[@thenot-so-smartfox4145]

@@RobertLocksley385 I'm a simple man: I see a reference to The Last Samurai, I read it.

[@mikezinn7212]

Vaughan Williams often uses the pentatonic scale which is an inherent part of Japanese music. A lot of English folk music uses modal scales and the pentatonic scale. It certainly touches the soul!

[@williamrubinstein3442]

Arguably the greatest composer of the twentieth century.

[@michaelcunningham3540]

Without a doubt.brilliant

[@waynesmith3767]

Well,there were so many! Undoubtedly a great composer.

[@judithwhitehouse2149]

Actually, for me he comes in as second all-time great only to Bach...

[@michaelcunningham3540]

Without doubt,

[@saxonost7]

No argument from me.

[@timothymering2240]

A composer who knew who he was. That is the ultimate compliment I can pay to VW's music, which has been a lifelong source of pleasure for me

[@RKNsword]

If only Vaughan Williams had finished his cello concerto...this would have been the second movement, and it perhaps would have been a masterpiece.

[@jhegre]

most likely so

[@heatherstratfold4108]

Beyond any doubt.. I’m a cellist and I’m blown away

[@theGentlemanCaller73]

This man, VW. What a incredible composer. I can barely get a few notes into anything he's composed without these wet things coming out of my eyes.

[@kathyreiners6833]

Matt Lohrke I have those wet things coming out of my eyes too

[@theGentlemanCaller73]

glad we agree!

[@jonathanmeans2290]

I'm not weeping...I'm tear-bending! A blessing upon all who evoke such responses; catharsis is underrated!

[@JessY_8]

me too, what a beautiful composition and performance

[@michaelmurphy9588]

in my life experience of those close to me and those who have endured horrible wars...when i heard the 3rd Symphony, knew RVW had served in ambulance service 'bringing home the pieces' of his generation and his platoon being with many of the great English music people...George Butterfield et. al., I cried for that generation lost...but also realized he 'counterposed' the Cotswold Countryside of his youth as a meditation for 'carrying on'...that there is also much good...but in Flanders fields...there is desperation for those unimaginable bucolic times; the piece feels like the heaven is weeping...and it is. This is our human experience.

[@jeffreymafereka9477]

Vaughn William and Gerald Finzi wrote beautifully for Cello... 🌹🙏👌

[@raptorphile]

This is a score actually written by David Matthews based on fragments of a slow movement for a proposed cello concerto intended for Pablo Casals. It was composed in 2009 and first premiered at The Proms in 2010. The fragments were written by RVW at about the same time as the 5th Symphony and some have noted a kinship with the Romanza of that symphony and the Lark Ascending. It is VW's musical sensibility to the core.

[@Deliquescentinsight]

I can hear 'The Lark...' especially in this piece those emotional swells and flute refrains, and solo violin voice.

[@FrancisSpencer-we2yg]

Thank you for this information. It clears up why it sounds like VW and yet isn’t, both at once.

[@cellosong]

You should acknowledge the wonderful cello soloist, Guy Johnston, in your notes. His playing is exceptional.

[@laon1496]

진짜 이 유튜브 알고리즘ㅋㅋㅋ차준환 선수 새 쇼트곡이 이렇게 맥락 없이 뜨다니ㅋㅋ피겨팬은 무릎을 탁 치고 갑니다ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@isabellaa.albuquerquee]

The best composer ever!

[@junej4216]

Just discovering Vaughan Williams and I feel so lucky. Simply beautiful. The cello, extraordinary.

[@oddbod8655]

I haven't listened to RVW for nearly forty years.I studied his work in music appreciation at school. Oh how I should have carried on listening and enriched my life. There are no words in the English language to say how beautiful his works are. It's never to late to carry on listening.

[@31Alden]

My parents exposed me to RVW throughout my childhood, but I was young and into the Beatles, Motown, Stones, etc. As you so beautifully stated, I am closing the circle by returning to the music that formed me. All of me. RVW to wit. I am listening to everything I can, absorbing as much beauty as I possibly can without my heart bursting open from the sheer beauty of his compositions.

[@bernabefernandeztouceda7315]

@@31Alden oh that's beautiful!

[@skrivbordslampan6923]

This is one of my favorite RVW pieces! Why isn't it more famous?

[@devindevon]

Because it's only partially by RVW.

[@devindevon]

Composer David Matthews finished the sore based on RVW's partially written slow movement for an unfinished cello concerto.

[@wcsxwcsx]

The things you can find in those suggestions on the side bar. They can fill up your life.

[@go2beach51]

+wcsxwcsx So much music...so little time.

[@mjrsnafu]

...not to mention the searchbox...

[@topheeg8818]

UpAndOut Yet the fulfillment of our own quests can become the journey of ones self discovery.

[@kaybeenullenvoyde9196]

I am so loving all of your comments, have been a RVW fan since 1965. KEEP IT ALL ALIVE!

[@moonbeamchaos]

Me too! Well, 1964, but it was a lovely beginning. My introduction was the Mass, because it was the flip side of my favorite Bach cantata!

[@davidsevenbros3065]

Another lovely and largely unknown piece by a true master of the English Pastoral genre. Vaughn Williams is a deep well to which I often come and drink. Thanks Gen for sharing.

[@purmer26]

I am not a professional, just an older dedicated listener from The Netherlands. I spend some years in the UK in the '70's in England and many holidays after that all over the island. Elgar and Holst were on my speakers for many years already. Vaughan Williams I discovered somewhere in the '90's , and has remained a deep interest. Specialy the delicate pieces like this Dark Pastorale, In The Fen Country and others : They seem to come from inside .

[@ronaldmuir9126]

His use of woodwind in this piece reminds me of certain parts of his Pastoral Symphony. The one composer who truly reaches into the depths of my soul.

[@thebojci555]

Damn ninjas cutting onions right now... you just cant get enough of RVW's music

[@weelass2205]

almost unbearably beautiful

[@remixuereb]

A beautiful love of a mother to his child is almost unbearably beautiful .... : ? L'âme humaine est souvent tortueuse .

[@johnparr5879]

Glorious swirling motions, captured in gently passing moments held within. Music

[@rwabahizichristian6659]

The transitions are absolutely unbelievable! Vaughan was probably a big feeler

[@vincentstuart3148]

underrated master composer what else is new

[@stevennewton1342]

More wonderful, evocative music from England's premier composer. Sublime

[@javiervivanco919]

This music takes me to a world of peace

[@michaelcunningham3540]

Best ever english composer by far tremendous,

[@thatsbougie]

The title makes it sound like a DARK AND EDGY REBOOT but it's really quite beautiful.

[@thomaspaul2724]

I'd recommend watching the BBC interview with one of the men involved with bringing this piece to life. It shows up with "dark pastoral" search on KZbin. Turns out that the first 4-5 minutes of this are pure Vaughan Williams melody with orchestration by David Matthews, who finished the previously unfinished work. After that, it's mostly Matthews' own contrasting interpretation for the middle section followed up by his returning to the original Vaughan Williams themes at the end of the piece. Awesome stuff. As a cellist, I'm really glad Matthews kept pursuing the ability to finish this piece and went through with it.

[@royfearn4345]

This is all new to me, but I am pleased with the finished result. Undeniably based on RVW themes with a talented finisher!

[@baroqueman1]

Shades of this excellent composer's 3rd Symphony are evident in this calming and contemplative piece.

[@christhornley1664]

Sombre and compelling. A pensively beautiful piece of music from Vaughan Williams.

[@garyjohnson9037]

his music expresses the beauty and horrors experienced in life. The music speaks for it self defining his genius that will live on in the hearts of those who it touches.

[@oliverschwarz-roosmann5249]

Das ist brillant formuliert und bringt die wunderbare Eigenart von Vaughan-Williams auf den Punkt!

[@stevenburky9980]

love Vaughan Williams. Any of his pastoral = best classical music ever, or at least from Britain....why couldn't he live forever and keep making this kind of music?

[@moonbeamchaos]

At the risk of cliché, he DOES live forever in his music, and I'm forever discovering new pieces I had never known about. If he had only written Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis it could -- almost -- have been enough for me. But I'm greedy, and, frankly, grateful for KZbin for the ability to hear so much of his work.

[@jonathanmeans2290]

And I'm told he also lives on in the lives and works of the many younger composers he generously (and wisely) sponsored throughout his career. Bless you, RV-W, may your tribe ever increase!

[@royfearn4345]

Living forever is not in the scheme of things. This should not be cause for regret. Live your life to the full and do good things. RVW did, and if everyone did the same the world would be a far better place!

[@williamhamilton5108]

Another incredible piece by RVW. He’s only now getting the recognition he deserves.

[@jimcrawford5039]

He was very well known in the UK when I was young ( I am now 82) and here in Australia too. His ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey. It’s great that through modern media that he is loved so much all around the world!

[@javanaisdei]

amazing!

[@Paul49Giloi]

Profoundly beautiful. Thank you, Gen.M.

[@johnrussell3980]

Thank you for NO ADS! I am removing other selections from my listening lists because of annoying, loud ads that interrupt the flow of beautiful Vaughan Williams! John R. Ralph Vaughan-Williams FB Group

[@susanhunter7097]

I had no idea there was a VW FB! I will look it up...how wonderful to talk with others who love this music as I do! Doesn't hurt that RVW initials were also my dear father's.....

[@moonbeamchaos]

PAY THE $10 a month for Premium. It’s worth every penny.

[@JolPil]

Wild green summer forests fill this sensual music, give me wine and joy!

[@wellnessgirl2806]

The cello is eating me from inside! Soul stirring stuff!

[@anamariamartinez4259]

Sus composiciones son como una montaña rusa, pues a mí me hacen vibrar igual, GRACIAS

[@pedromartins374]

I believe tha Williams is like Villa-Lobos... A lot of feeling and emotion... Love both!!!

[@carlosalsinatarrasa5367]

Pedro Kebbe

[@c.almeida4485]

Villa Lobos é também um compositor genial e infelizmente pouco conhecido fora do Brasil.

[@moherr1]

I thought I knew evey piece composed by RVW. What a discovery! Another jewel from this amazing composer

[@CJDJgamer]

RVW came into my life by chance. My background does not entertain such 'so called' music. But VW knows my true self. How odd is that. This piece came to me at a major junction in my life. It puts into a language, that which I cannot describe even to myself. It is not all his original work, but it does an incredibly good job of mimicking the sentiment he owns. I am lost in it, thankfully. Better that reality.

[@IronReef77]

Always loved the Cello. Ralph makes great music as well. Doesnt disappoint

[@michaelcunningham1484]

the best British composer ever !

[@johndiest9875]

Always add... '...in my oppinion'

[@mizofan]

or "in my opinion"

[@williamrubinstein3442]

Not only "British"

[@RolandHutchinson]

Just to be safe, always add 'since Purcell'.

[@michaelcunningham3540]

Still the best😂

[@Ocelot2000]

I'm in love with this piece!!!

[@ramonmidence2050]

Nothing else to add ,as much say , music for the feelings & sensitive beings whose hearts would go peacefully on their lives .that is R. V.WILLIAMS ' .

[@MerryMary2614]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@maxtofone]

Thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful composition... RVW music is sublime!

[@keithbennett694]

From the era of Wild Flower meadows & abundance of Wildlife, the inspiration must have been infinite.

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

preciosa

[@oldbrassman2157]

Hearing this for the first time. A great find! Thanks for posting.

[@gearycarrier1587]

Stunningly...

[@germanquintero10121946]

,MARAVILLOSO VOLVERLO A DISFRUTAR

[@ginajackson4122]

Simply marvellous!! There are no other words to describe it. This is my daily medicine.

[@marcopiscina8420]

Thank you Gen. M. for publishing. RVW's music makes me feel simultaneously happy and sad. It touches my heart like no other music. Simply brilliant!

[@Wotansangst]

(Yet) Another achingly beautiful work by Vaughan Williams. Thank you, Gen. M., for posting this.

[@shodanart]

Thank you for posting this bittersweet RVWs ❤️💔

[@schark5311]

Absolutely stunning piece. I'm in tears. It has the feel of sadness and danger, and yet manages to be playful at times and give hope.

[@lynnevenson7873]

More than a few echoes of the Lark here. Sublime is a great word.

[@TheValdoe]

Cellist is Guy Johnston.

[@livetwice7702]

Who are the 20 thumbs down , this is music from God !! There are some odd people in the world

[@CarmelFa]

Such an emotive piece, beautiful!

[@danutz75]

The soloist is Guy Johnston.

[@javanaisdei]

amazing

[@mcc9887]

breath taking....stunning.....

[@christianbalmer1958]

Great performance of a wonderful piece of music. Thanks for sharing.

[@spqrxli]

Thank you very much for uploading this beautiful work. I have been listening to VW for forty years and I had no idea this piece existed in any form. Exquisite performance, too.

[@robertzeek4020]

I have been listening to this work by Vaughan Williams in 1942 for years. And I would compare it to Holst's Lyric Movement of 1933. I recommend the comparison. They are both great beyond words.

[@classy_dweller]

Oh ,it is a so wonderful ,deeply soul-soothing work ....

[@germanquintero10121946]

MARAVILLOSA

[@ca9drop]

OMAIGA! This is so good.

[@caitlyncherro6025]

I'm genuinely upset that I didn't know about this wonderful composer until very recently.

[@moonbeamchaos]

Luckily he left much for you to learn!

[@arcturusvmoon]

Absolutely wonderful!

[@mikeflint4412]

I don't think anyone's music creates so many images in the mind as VW's it is heart-breaking on one hand and uplifting on the other, I would love to know what drove and inspired him.

[@juandavidbernalgiraldo]

excellent recording

[@AndNowLadiesandGents]

...reaching the Heavenly Realms🌔🌕🌖

[@jordanesewals]

Splendid music.

[@nirigovind8793]

Moving and sublime

[@malcolmbird9928]

This piece is exquisite. Why , why have'nt I heard it before now ? - another of RVW's heartbreakers- why has'nt it been exposed on Classic fm, like say the the 'Talliis' or the 'Lark' ? Some of it's restlessness seems to me like further reference to the trenches of Piccardy .

[@EliezerPennywhistler]

Malcolm Bird Why don't you ask them?

[@mcc9887]

Walking the White City Beaumont Hamel on the Somme with this in your head is one of the most moving things you can ever do ....Beautiful..stunning.....

[@sydshrimp]

Glorious!

[@marytaylor-davies7103]

Absolutely beautiful, I want to learn this.

[@Modt5]

Love. Thank you!

[@galas062]

Thank you!

[@michaelmurphy9588]

He was one of the most 'spiritual' composers though like all moderns, academically agnostic,....he writes about real things in the human experience....his is 'high and human' art rather than the modern nihilistic theoretical crap most of us must endure called modern music.....our STLSO performed 'Thomas Tallis Theme' in our very large New Cathedral....however any of us be...it took us to the upper realms of our human experience...and we do so need that in our lives....

[@kvattkin]

out of this world;-)

[@cbooth2004]

Wonderful. Thank you.

[@petetube99]

How can a cello or a violin make me think of an experience in a particular place, in a landscape I have never seen? I dont get it.

[@desallen2174]

Charles wants a different coronation in May. Zadok will be played of course, as it has for almost 300 years. Wow, a barge on the Thames with the LSO and choir of Westminster Abbey. If only.

[@faultelectronica]

Inspiring

[@timanderson6941]

First time hearing this RVW piece.

[@randya7578]

Drunken Pirate - Your ear is picking up the 5 note Pentatonic scale that is a true musical chameleon. Based on the setting, it can be a traditional melody from Ireland / British Isles, China and Japan or the basis for a blues melody and improvisation.

[@klvaughanwilliams1725]

I feel the music is intrinsic.

[@billwagstaff9986]

beautiful R v w a true genius . I've not heard this before wonderful thanks..

[@eduardociampi4052]

Great choice, Gen. M!!!

[@albertcombrink3717]

Guy Johnston plays it beautifully

[@davidjames9626]

Delightful to muse in twilight..