Vaughan Williams: Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra (Thomson, London Symphony Orchestra)

[@keiththomas4367]

Vaughan Williams makes you proud to be British. Just listened to his concerto grosso with the LSO and Thomson. string music at its greatest!

[@tigrefloresgonzalez9159]

Sarabande, tres minutos de grandeza y poder en un solo movimiento. Simplemente genial... Es como resurgir de entre las cenizas; así fue... Gracias por este momento de locura, Sir Ralph Vaughan Williams...🌹

[@stitchyduck]

One of the most undiscovered and underrated works of art ever, in my opinion.

[@wcsxwcsx]

Vaughan Williams and strings--always incredible.

[@stevepayne5965]

Now that is a glowing, luminous recording.

[@annfarmer7966]

Wonderful! RVW at his best.

[@emmacrisp5926]

Just got this piece in orchestra class (I play 'cello). It's so beautiful! Vaughn Williams is a genius! :)

[@DieFlabbergast]

The Baptistry Window of Coventry Cathedral - I hadn't seen a picture of it for 50 years but I recognised it right away!

[@lindagallacher6500]

Outstanding playing. One of the greatly under played, underrated VW pieces.

[@gabriellim9729]

My Orchestra is playing Intrada and March and Reprise. This is such a great piece of music!

[@karenxu6847]

My daughter’s orchestra is going to play this piece soon so we listened it. This recording of LSO’s is simply stunning!

[@pedrohenriqueprata]

I have another recording, completely different from that, with James Judd leading the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. The tempo is much faster (the whole play sounds 4 minutes shorter) and it seems that the interpretation was designed to contrast deliberately with this, which is earlier. Romantic opulence disappears under acute angularity of forms, which acquire a neoclassical character.

[@eremlic17]

tears me up just to the sound of it

[@jordanesewals]

Such a great piece of music. Thank you !

[@lyrensutz]

Perhaps the best recording of this magnificent work. Thanks for sharing indeed!

[@notesandneurons]

Playing movements 1 & 5 in my orchestra this year! Love it!

[@DieFlabbergast]

The sarabande is the most sublime piece of music I know!

[@giovannipierre5309]

DieFlabbergast No, the most sublime piece of music you know is the adagio from Elgar’s 1st symphony.

[@DieFlabbergast]

@@giovannipierre5309 How did you know I know it? :) Actually both you and I are wrong: there is no "most sublime piece of music," but if there is, it will be the slow movement of VW's Fifth Symphony.

[@JoseCavendish]

Best recording os this stunning concerto

[@alexanderblair9417]

If you enjoy the warmth of the INTRADA then have a listen to the Bass Tuba Concert, 2nd Mvt. and you'll hear the phrases develop into a full blown Romance.

[@iorekbyrnison8278]

Wonderful! I can’t wait to play it!

[@janetcraft]

Beautiful music 🌙

[@johnminster3205]

RVW remains my favorite composer 😊

[@PGFTopera]

Somptueux.

[@rovtova]

This music has always affected me in a powerful way. I Have a Nimbus recording paired with the Oboe Concerto & Concerto Grosso. Boughton and the English Chamber Orchestra. The sound is amazingly clear and dynamic. The performance is superb.

[@1RobertCEvans1]

Thanks for sharing!

[@kuang-licheng402]

nice

[@johnglasspool6785]

History will show him to have been the UK's most talented composer, and possibly the world's, up to now anyway.

[@pedrohenriqueprata]

Did you listen to all the songwriters in the world to come to that conclusion?

[@irenesacconi9093]

Beatiful!❤💎⭐😘😇

[@pattomuso]

A little slower at the start from what I'm familiar with.....but still wonderful stuff from RVW!

[@michaelmurphy326]

does anyone see the forthrightness of this beautiful piece analogous to an English Schostakovitch? Just love it...

[@modisuppose1321]

I'm here trying to figure out why the strings climax from Black Panther's Ancestral Plane sounds so familiar!

[@vaishisharma8652]

13:40

[@steveegallo3384]

Yes! and a bit later at 14:00....That whole section is a richly textured, opulent...building....climax.....

[@baileyrob]

What's the strange-looking background picture?

[@brianhill3062]

BaileyRob - Hi, they're stained glass windows at Coventry Cathedral, by the font.

[@baileyrob]

cool, thanks

[@DieFlabbergast]

To be precise, it is the Baptistry Window, designed by John Piper.

[@davidjefferis4467]

This is an internal feature of the ‘new’ cathedral, built adjacent to the original which was bombed out in World War II. I went there as a teen, and again a few years ago.

[@baileyrob]

@@davidjefferis4467 It looks impressive, and in a strange way it suits this concerto.

[@luzyera11]

13:16 ❤️

[@emmaaxelson7821]

Is it just me, or does the March sound a bit like the Overture to the Wasps?

[@tamcon72]

To me it has hints of Warlock, but not VW's own _Wasps._

[@stitchyduck]

11:30 *

[@RobstersTunes]

I can honestly say there is not a RVW piece i don't adore.

[@stevepayne5965]

RobstersTunes Me either ☺