Vaughan Williams : Heroic Elegy & Triumphal Epilogue for orchestra (1900)

[@Allusionary]

If only we could press the "LIKE" (thumbs up) button a hundred thousand times... Thank you, Rodders, for presenting this to an adoring RVW audience.

[@dbtrains172]

It's a very interesting look at the composer a couple of years before he began his decade-long project of collecting and preserving British folksongs, which was the pathway to developing an individual style: "[M]any young composers make the mistake of imagining they can be universal without at first having been local."

[@dbtrains172]

Thank you Rod, very beautiful.

[@internetperiodista]

The opening is SUBLIME.

[@jirafachina]

Así es

[@TheVaughan5]

Never heard this before, thanks so much for the upload. Wonderful work, a very different RVW from what we usually hear and I absolutely love it.

[@pibbles-a-plenty1105]

Being only a lay music lover, I'd say VW's passion of youth lived on from this work to the end.

[@kaybeenullenvoyde9196]

Oh this is just splendid!

[@Londonfogey]

I keep finding VW stuff I've never heard of...without KZbin I'd probably only be aware of the Cello concerto in D Minor and the Enigma Variations.

[@Londonfogey]

@@271250cl Sorry, I was getting him mixed up with Elgar! I must go back to music school.

[@TomBerryUSA]

Check out his Symphony No 1 “A Sea Symphony” and No. 2 “A London Symphony.” Then there are other choral works like his Mass in G Minor, Bénédicité, Sancta Civitas, Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Serenade to Music, Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Greensleeves... So many and all glorious. He is perhaps my most favorite composer (tied with Mahler). I love n’est the recordings with the King’s College Choir directed by David Willcocks for the choral pieces. Sir Adrian Boult for the orchestral works.

[@TomBerryUSA]

One more: Symphony No. 7: Sinfonia Antarctica. Powerful.

[@davefletcher987]

Try Colin's site if you haven't already. He's uploaded a lot of material

[@angelaoneill3545]

@@Londonfogey He would have been flattered to have been confused with Elgar.

[@jirafachina]

Excelente obra. Gracias por compartir.

[@cywiringwlad]

Same characteristic passion/feeling even here. 🤗

[@bgccallahan4116]

Enchanting.

[@richh9450]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@maxmerry8470]

RVW had yet to study with Ravel but, even so, this sterling earlyish work seems to be moving in a Russian/Slavonic direction (a style which had, of course, influenced the French Master considerably). I agree with Chris Breemer's comment about the Wagnerian horns at 10:30 but elsewhere the brass does sound Russian, to my ears at least. The triumphal climax is rather impressive....

[@dankurth4232]

One can hear various influences in this early work of RVW including Elgar’s

[@robertbettens1]

Hello Mr.Rodders, is it possible to download the complete album? Many thanks.

[@davidrehak3539]

Ralph Vaughan Williams:Hősi elégia és Diadal-epilógus BBC Koncertzenekar Vezényel:John Wilson

[@dhackj]

❤️VW

[@N_Loco_Parenthesis]

An English equivalent to Berlioz's Symphonie funèbre et triomphale?

[@gordonscott4168]

Raith at his finest…

[@lewispastars8892]

Is this quoted in the mines of Moria?

[@ChrisBreemer]

From 10:30 or so I thought for a moment I was listening to Wagner :)

[@TheVaughan5]

If I wasn’t aware of the composer I wouldn’t have guessed RVW but neither would I guess Wagner though there are of course a few references but it’s definitely not overall his style.

[@mariorossi9655]

8:02 16:42 18:46

[@devindevon]

A bit Wagnerian here and there, 4 sure.

[@angelaoneill3545]

"Ah you young people who despise Wagner" the great man later complained.

[@C-Wilson9]

Yes, and it is such a blessing to have such Wagnerian compositions! ☺️