Gold, Colin. Solid Gold. From an Old Sweat who's the last of a family of Old Sweats. My lid off to you.
@271250cl
9 жыл бұрын
Adam Welton Thanks, Adam. Glad you liked it!
@baroqueman1
9 жыл бұрын
This is a work that doesn't lend itself to the concert-hall. It is best heard during one's calm and reflective moments, especially during this time of Remembrance. Often, I am moved to tears by this.
@vivcampbell8058
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this moment of reflection. RVW is a favorite. Thank you WFMT radio Chicago. 2:05 am 12/27/22.
@daphneanson9587
5 жыл бұрын
One of the very best symphonies by Britain's greatest symphonist (and greatest composer)- deeply moving.
@CarloTenore
9 жыл бұрын
Vaughn Williams' compositions always takes my mind to another place in time, when life was civil and restrained...and this Symphony somehow manages to do the same.
@Mritalicsmine
8 жыл бұрын
this i like; it's like listening to a chapter of his autobiography
@271250cl
8 жыл бұрын
An interesting way of thinking about the music !
@rogerhudson9732
8 жыл бұрын
The Pastoral, sums up the whole spirit of Britain that was lost forever by the greed and folly of 1914.
@jameshaynes7062
8 жыл бұрын
+++++++++++++^
@13WillSullivan
8 жыл бұрын
+Roger Hudson That's interesting; I do hear that in his other music like Five Variants and Lark Ascending especially. But he really wrote this piece about the French countryside and friends he lost in the war and I can't hear Britain in this too much.
@anssikorhonen6568
Жыл бұрын
Recently, I've spent some time listening to VW's fifth symphony, which is great, but whenever I return to 'Pastoral', I find it remains my favorite among VW's symphonies. Colin's wonderful video has a great deal to do with this. The connection may well be extra-musical, but the pictures fit the music exactly, and the other way round. Wondrous stuff!
@271250cl
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for your kind comment Anssi!
@valkiefalkmann2617
8 жыл бұрын
greetings from Holland, Henk, fantastic Colin! After te cruelty of ww1 making such music....RVW must have been a strong man. Thnx
@janemartin2416
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your lovely "Our Poppies" poem, Jack Harrison!!! We can never repay all those who served on our behalf. I pray that their sacrifice has been worth it.
@DavidDavid-cv9sg
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Colin, for bringing together these immensely powerful images, perfect for this sublime work. At about age 16, I found a pocket score of this symphony in my local public library. Intrigued by the score, I bought a cassette recording of VW’s Symphonies 3 and 6, conducted by Boult. I was completely transfixed by this work, and I count it as one of my most lasting musical impressions. I love all of VW’s symphonies, but this remains my favourite.
@jhb134
9 жыл бұрын
Colin - I like Norrington! After a number of years of listening to V-W Symphonies, I still have a certain preference for performances by Barbirolli or Boult, but Norrington brings out the INNER voices of this V-W Third, with exquisite detail by the London Phil. Thanks for the upload!
@shnimmuc
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you Colin, this man needs more exposure here in the states. Your slide show is tremendous. Just attended a college orchestra performance of the fifth, I swear people were weeping at the end. Why don`t the professional orchestras and conductors wake up. We have heard enough John Adams and Phillip Glass.
@271250cl
9 жыл бұрын
***** In his lifetime, RVW was performed a lot in rhw United States; Leopold Stokowsky played many of the symphonies at Carnegie Hall and elsewhere. In recent years interest in the US seems to have flagged, though there have been some fine American recordings made recently, particularly by Robert Spano and the Atlanta SO.
@jowox
3 жыл бұрын
Heartfelt thanks for creating this picture symphony. The last movement with the wordless outcry from humanity is thought-provoking and touching at the same time.
@271250cl
3 жыл бұрын
So glad you enjoyed it!
@bachandefi
9 жыл бұрын
A brilliant interpretation of this wonderful work through photographs. Thank you, Colin.
@WimGrundy
8 жыл бұрын
On the eve of the Centenary of The Somme, a somber vigil ... THANK YOU for posting.
@271250cl
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks Wim. No better music could mark this day. I have also just made a short video marking the first day of the some, based on music by George Butterworth. If you search 'A Shropshire Lad' and look for a picture of poppies you should find it easily.
@sliderpunk
10 жыл бұрын
Probably my favourite VW symphony. Nice video, really fits the music.
@digitalsketchguy
10 жыл бұрын
The pictures go so well with this Symphony. Appreciate your time and effort, thanks
@frankcarmack1442
9 жыл бұрын
I remember reading an essay about RVW 's Symphonies which emphasized their "Englishness" as being the key to their universality. I don't know about that: too often over-intellectualism can kill aesthetics. One thing is sure. He mastered every aspect of his Art. His melodic gifts are extraordinary, as are his orchestrations, both in structure(representings forms from the 15th-20th Cs) and in "color". He is, hands down, my favorite English Composer and in my "Top 10" All-Time. Thank you for posting these masterpieces and "May God Bless You and bring you a Happy New Year." Christmas too (not to forget HODIE and Christmas Carol Fantasia).
@271250cl
9 жыл бұрын
Very true Frank.
@felinefever2
10 жыл бұрын
Colin - your work is simply brilliant. The final photographs accompanying the symphony's conclusion leaves me in tears every single time!
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
Well, thanks very much. As I've said before, it's wonderful to know that people respond so positively (and so strongly) to the music and the images I've set against it. Thanks for taking the trouble to comment.
@somnitel
3 жыл бұрын
@@271250cl I could never begin to explain how deeply his music has moved me. In the strains of 'the England we have lost' I find myself thrown into memories of my own life, and the pain, some unfelt until a few hours ago, of losing those i loved.
@robertparry7845
9 жыл бұрын
I love all the symphonies----all very different but unmistakedly R.V.W.I was gripped by your efforts-----i could not control the waterworks in the 4th movement as the images fitted the music brilliantly.I look forward to your efforts with the unnamed next 6.Robert J.Parry.Great Yarmouth,Norfolk
@271250cl
9 жыл бұрын
Really glad you liked this Robert, and thanks for taking the time to respond. I have just finished a video on No 5 which you might be interested in. Also, I'm so much in love with the 'Pastoral' that I did another video with it, this time using paintings rather than photos.
@kubyco
9 жыл бұрын
this is my favorite VW symphony, believe it or not.
@271250cl
9 жыл бұрын
kubyco I do believe it, Kubyco! :)
@mikef5881
8 жыл бұрын
+kubyco I believe you, because it's my favorite, too! (And I thought I was the only one!)
@kubyco
8 жыл бұрын
Wow that's unbelievable, there's a few of us RVW3 fanatics in the world, I salute your good taste :)
@ELHS1970
10 жыл бұрын
Exquisite...perfect...profound...transcendent...experiencing this has been one of the highlights of my life...you cannot be commended too highly for creating this combination of photos and music.
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for your very kind response to my video of 'A Pastoral Symphony'. Such positive remarks are extremely gratifying and encouraging.
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
P.S. May I invite you, by the way, to subscribe to my Channel, where you will find similar videos of other works by RVW (including the 'Sea' and 'London' symphonies. Good wishes.
@WilcoG
9 жыл бұрын
Excellent and very moving! I love the pastoral scenes. Great photos! The war scenes remind me of a novel I just finished, The Canal Bridge by Tom Phelan.
@nightpuppett1
9 жыл бұрын
A truly wonderful symphony by my favorite composer. Thank you for uploading this work Sir.
@daidegan
9 жыл бұрын
Moving beyond tears, to that inner-most sanctum of all humanity. Epic production, sublime intuition, art; no, great art.
@271250cl
9 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for your response, David. It's hugely gratifying that my little films reach some people in this way.
@kathleenferrier1
10 жыл бұрын
Beautiful and deeply moving. Thank you Colin for your efforts. RVW currently has a great champion in Andrew Manze. There are some Proms performances of his on KZitem. The Pastoral grows in stature each time I hear it - as does RVW 8.
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for taking the time to comment, Laurence. Yes Manze is doing his bit for RVW - I was lucky enough to be at the all VW prom in 2012 when he did symphonies 4, 5 and 6. A great experience.
@WaftyHippyLass
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading this and for your thoughtful choice of images. Beautifully done.
@awaitthegroom
10 жыл бұрын
Colin- thank you for this- your pictures have captured perfectly the contrast of English idyllic pastures with the war torn fields of the Somme. My Grandfather left his horse and plough to go the Somme and came back a chronically injured man in every way. Thank you again
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
I'm glad that you enjoyed what I've done with VW's symphony. My own grandfather was on the Somme, too, in the Royal Scots Greys. Happily he survived.
@sydshrimp
10 жыл бұрын
Colin So happy your grandfather survived!
@awaitthegroom
10 жыл бұрын
Peter Clamp Thank you- so am I or I wouldnt be here !!
@somnitel
8 жыл бұрын
+Colin - Wasn't George Butterworth killed at the Somme?
@271250cl
8 жыл бұрын
Yes, that's right.
@pierregirard5011
10 жыл бұрын
thank you very much.
@nivekyenwop
8 жыл бұрын
the images on your video do this great piece of music justice Colin. This is a very descriptive piece and a great example of British music. Finding this has brightened up my day. Thank you.
@271250cl
8 жыл бұрын
+nivekyenwop Many thanks for your kind words! :0)
@BradBrassman
9 жыл бұрын
Superb.....and love the slide show!!
@tonymiddlehurst8438
8 жыл бұрын
wonderful music and imagery, thank you
@lukejusup6964
8 жыл бұрын
The images match the sublime music
@benmcconaghy3313
8 жыл бұрын
I love much of RVW's work. Your visual accompaniment is always thoughtful and chimes beautifully. These images of people at work - lost in time - are fascinating.Thanks Colin.
@271250cl
8 жыл бұрын
+Ben McConaghy Glad you like it, Ben and thanks for taking the time to comment.
@sydshrimp
10 жыл бұрын
Colin, you know how much I think of this superb video of yours. On viewing it yet again I was struck by the "symphonic" way you arranged all the fine images in line with the music. Tremendously creative.
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
It was a labour of love, Peter. 'The Pastoral' has a special place in my affections, as it was the first RVW work I heard when I was fifteen or sixteen.
@babycmamasavant
10 жыл бұрын
Colin Hello Colin, Thank you for posting this. I am somewhat obsessed with this piece right now and have the B+H pocket score. Have you ever made a list of all of the recorded versions available ? Here is a start: 1. Kees Bakels on Naxos with Bournemouth 2. Haitink and Concertegebouw 3. Roger Norrington live with Concertegebouw 4. Vernon Handley with Liverpool 5. your posting here Roger + London Phil. Do you know of any others, please ? Thank you very much, Ian
@babycmamasavant
10 жыл бұрын
Colin p.s. 6. Ormandy + Philly
@morganvaughan9724
9 жыл бұрын
jazzbatonIAN My favorite (may be out of print) Previn + LSO
@sydshrimp
9 жыл бұрын
Morgan Vaughan That is a superb interpretation and recording.
@wort1959
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you Colin for putting these together in one place,your references of Williams collecting Folk music put light to the images portrayed in the music.Yours, the last person you would think to enjoy musical poems.
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it John and thanks for taking the time to write.
@christianguignard9980
8 жыл бұрын
Oui, Colin est véritablement inspiré de nous faire partager la connaissance de cette oeuvre si élevée et fondamentale...la troisième symphonie de Ralph Vaughan Williams est absolument inspirée. Lorsque l' on pense que au temps de sa sortie en 1922, quelques mauvais esprits l' ont refusé....et je pense qu' aujourd' hui encore les esprits chagrins ne manquent pas. Bref, aujourd' hui plus que l' année dernière, j' apprécie profondément cette oeuvre. Elle correspond parfaitement au sujet de la première guerre mondiale, et globalement à cette époque. Les français pour grand nombre, ne conçoivent pas à quel point notre dette, et pas que sur cette guerre....est immense au regard de l' Angleterre. Historiquement, nous ne pouvons pas vraiment lever la tête bien haut... et je suis pourtant très (trop) fier de mon pays puisque j' en suis un homme du patrimoine...c' est peu dire. Dans chaque guerre, et particulièrement celle de 1870, la responsabilité de la France est insondable....il est important d' être convenablement instruit... Notre dette est aussi majeure à l' égard des autres nations..... Oh Oui, on regrette un Jaurès, à en pleurer pour l' éternité. Mon aïeul direct, Maurice Eugène Guignard, fut un combattant de cette première guerre mondiale, il l' effectua du premier au dernier jour, au front, et mourut le 24 novembre 1918 des suites de ses blessures, et de triste façon...laissant trois petits enfants orphelins, et notre famille en fut brisée. Il était artisan coiffeur, Charentais....et nous en pleurons encore. Ce n' est que depuis l' année dernière que nous avons pu connaître les détails de notre histoire, inscrite aux archives nationales. Un malheur identique frappa la famille de ma mère à la même époque, mais pas du fait directe de la guerre; donc, les hommes et pères de ma lignée furent tués en ces temps. C' est un cas assez commun, malheureusement, en France comme ailleurs, mais il est important de préciser que en 14-18, autant d' hommes anglais périrent sur notre sol, que de soldats Français ! ..et tant d' étrangers à l' Europe. Quand à 1940... Alors que Ralph Vaughan Williams écrit cette partition, il a lui même été soldat , et de plus de son plein gré...volontaire ! et comme on dit familièrement, " il a pris cher !" , donc cela est significatif du courage qui défini à mon sens le peuple anglais. Alors que l' on a vécu comme lui et de très près, l' atrocité de cette guerre, l' absurdité de son développement organisé, on a deux possibilités. Soit on devient marqué à vie et notre cerveau implose ou exprime à son tour une violence comparable, soit la force intérieure permet une résilience salvatrice. Pour Ralph Vaughan Williams , c' est le second cas; Donc, cette symphonie correspond exactement à ce qu' un être profondément blessé et meurtri peut et doit entendre; je signifie par là que ce n' est pas uniquement une oeuvre artistique, mais avant tout un "objet de résilience", de "grand soin", et cela me semble particulièrement évident. En cela il ne pouvait lui, pas s' amuser à jouer les compositeurs expressionnistes. Son oeuvre est donc, non pas une oeuvre de commande ni de complaisance, ainsi que la majorité du répertoire historique l' est...et oui, ...mais au contraire une oeuvre bienfaitrice, elle a sa "raison" telle une équation mathématique, et je pense donc très inspirée d' en haut...dans cette apparente expression impressionniste ou parfois humaniste, se situe un système qui équilibre et soigne l' auditeur, justement composée avec ce qu' il faut de délicatesse et de prévenance, de douceur et de structure recréatrice, dans l' attention à autrui; il s' agit avant tout d' un véritable pansement de l' esprit et un baume de l' âme. Il y a dans cette oeuvre, des éléments de reconnaissance des faits, donc où le quotidien du soldat est exprimé, mais surtout des éléments de soins palliatifs et curatifs, la rémission par l' attention et l' affection, le Soucis de l' autre. Pour avoir conscience de cela, il faut avoir soi-même subit quelque violence, d' une façon ou d' une autre, et se reconnaître dans le besoin et le pourquoi d' une écoute; dans ce cas, il y a imprégnation, infusion des éléments sensibles et immatériels curatifs. De nos jours, il est très à la mode d'entendre parler de l' art-thérapie...quelle pantalonnade, quelle farce ! la réalité de cette institution naissante est malheureusement desservie par ses intervenants illégitimes et dont les activités ne convient in fine pas du tout. Oui, les compositeurs de cette époque possédaient par delà leur style et leur époque cette accessibilité au soin et au don, Debussy et Ravel , Vincent D' Indy....mais Ralph Vaughan Williams à su éprouver la douleur et le malheur, et les sublimer, en tirer la quintessence, et je pense en toute conscience ! Cette musique est puissante extrêmement profonde et subtile, elle convient au "Grand Soin", celui de l' après guerre évidemment, nécessaire pour les adultes blessées ou brisées psychologiquement, mais en ces mots, je pense et le redit; le "Grand soin" dû à l' enfance, la petite enfance et au delà, celui dont parlera plus tard Myriam David, en fonction des traumatismes.... c' est donc alors le temps de l' épopée Emi Pickler, ( dont la thèse en pédiatrie ,dans les années vingt, se portait sur le développement des enfants lors des trois premières années)... puis en 1946, Loczy, le maternage insolite. C' est à cette époque que les fondamentaux de la pédopsychiatrie se positionnent, dans le réel intérêt de l' enfant, et que les pionniers prennent conscience de la notion de traumatisme et de l' impossibilité de parler, d' exprimer la douleur. Toute une époque, aussi de courage et honnêteté à travers ces malheurs ! Aujourd' hui, j' écoute cette troisième symphonie, parce-que ceci et cela....nous en avons besoin. elle nous accompagne; c' est donc, entre autre, un accompagnement thérapeutique dans un soin effectif et réel. Mais c' est aussi et fondamentalement très beau. Il n' y a que la beauté qui puisse soigner, éduquer et élever l' être humain. L' illustration photographique est magnifique et intelligente, elle me touche beaucoup, les fermes les paysages, des lieux identiques à ceux où j' ai vécu ainsi que mes aïeux....le monde rural dans sa rudesse et sa tendresse infinies. Je note cependant le très jeune âge des militaires...presque des enfants ; quand on connait le mobile des guerres...le monde est tristement triste. Colin, votre travail est Honnête et beau, il convient bien au sujet.
@271250cl
7 жыл бұрын
Je suis désolé de ne pas avoir répondu à vos commentaires plus tôt. KZitem les a envoyés au dossier 'spam' et je viens de les voir. Je ne lis pas bien le français, mais GooogleTranslate m'a permis d'avoir une idée approximative de ce que vous dites. Je suis très reconnaissant pour vos pensées et très heureux que, en tant que Français, vous admirez et appréciez la musique de RVW. Cette musique est très importante pour moi et il est bon de savoir que d'autres personnes aussi le trésor, comme vous le faites.
@christianguignard9980
7 жыл бұрын
Hi Colin, nice to talk with you.... I didn' t remember i wrote such an enormous notice, but when i hear to the music again, i say to myself that it is not too long to express all i had to say... Beg your pardon about my short language abilities.... but today, that will be enough to say a few words. Yes, i described each major subjects in relation to this music and this war... and i actuly said much more than i usualy do in my personal essays . What can i say, it is important that people read such an atricle, also not to become blind or deaf.... about life. Many people and especialy youth have to be taught about great composers or singers life so that they understand the deep meanings ... I talked about Resilience and "great Care", and it is so important in any time and any situation.... far above contemporary certainty , sometimes too high.... i think that in any time, humble and courageous persons gave the most important to the world, not for fun but beause of cure and save our next. And Music is an essential part of that. To be in the awareness of life movements or drifts allows to appreciate and feel exactly what is needed at the right moment, on the right spot, and for the right person..... i hope to, i believe in that idea... Even though i enjoy having fun and make jokes all the time, i am awaken about life troubles, and nowadays, i think we witness to a comparable disaster not so far from my country.... Some musics are testimonies, some others can prevent and accompagny each others trough darkness, and in those painful times, i also welcome other musics , coming from Meddle-East, and i think that music is made to say something realy important. We have to keep our ears open to keep our heart open.... I think that such sensitive human beings as kathleen Ferrier and Bruno Walter would be dead twice, considering current news , especialy about childhood and family disasters... Wose can hear harmony in music can obviously hear disharmony and calamity in life. in R V W footsteps. Best regards. Spams are not always fortuity happenings... i write truh; but the most important, heaven gave it back to you ! Best regards.. 16-11-2016
@46metube
10 жыл бұрын
lovely, many thanks.
@jackharrison6771
Жыл бұрын
OUR POPPIES. Poppies fill the field on a Summer day; they remind us of those, who marched away. When we think of the Poppy, red and black; it recalls all those who never came back. Of the boys who fell on the Somme that way; we recall how they died, on each Remembrance Day. Of the girls who as nurses, tended wounds en-masse; they too did Service, at Loos, or Arras. Of the troops in trenches, from the Alps, to the sea; who witnessed that first Christmas, with strange company. When they shared their tobacco, Bully, or bread; then joined the enemy, to bury the dead. We remember the letters, to Mother or Son; how "the war might be over, with Christmas coming on". How days became short, in the mud and stench; it's no fun being out there, in a dark little trench". Of the Sailors and Airmen, who's memory we keep; we remember how they fell at Mons or Ypres. So when buying your Poppy, DO wear it with pride; it's to remember all those heroes, who fell and died. BY JACK D. HARRISON. SUN 22-19-2022.
@kubyco
8 жыл бұрын
this video is really nice.
@SausageDoc
10 жыл бұрын
Beautifully put together Colin
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
Thanks Paul - glad you enjoyed it. It was a labour of love. The 'Pastoral' has a special place in my affections!
@SausageDoc
10 жыл бұрын
Likewise. My favourite after the 2nd.
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
Paul McKenna As you mentioned that the Pastoral Symphony is your favourite after the London Symphony, I thought I'd mention that I've done another video in No3, which I hope you'll look at and enjoy. kzitem.info/news/bejne/joF8mH-Yb6J6lHo
@philipians1635
10 жыл бұрын
Colin where oh where did you get these pictures?
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
Some came from good old google but this video was mostly made possible when I found a book of photos of pre-ww2 rural life in a charity shop for £1. I'm so obsessed by this work that I made another version using only painting and posters. Do please check it out if you have time. :)
@emmceeee
7 жыл бұрын
Your work is nothing less than brilliant. Your choices are everything I've ever felt listening to VW's Pastoral......how did you do it?
@271250cl
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Mike; your appreciation is much appreciated. How did I do it? I learned to use Windows Movie Maker and started off by making videos to go with short pieces of music. Later I became more ambitious and attempted a whole symphony. Google, of course, is an amazing source of visual imagery and over the years I've got quite good at finding the right images for the music - it's all a question of finding the right search-words!
@emmceeee
7 жыл бұрын
Well, the imagery is very moving, and your choices illustrate, and bring visual life to the symphony. Some of those sepia photographs are horrifying and heartbreaking. Although the music is at times idyllic, it has undertones of tragedy, horror, and waste. Likely what Vaughan Williams felt as an ambulance guy in WWI. There's no doubt it changed him. (I'll definitely have to investigate W's Movie Maker!) Thanks again, Colin! ♫
@271250cl
7 жыл бұрын
Mike Delaney Campeau You're very welcome. I hope you'll check out my channel, where you'll find videos to other RVW symphonies and other works.
@almudenadlopez
7 жыл бұрын
Gracias.
@123must
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks !
@francisprudence5576
9 жыл бұрын
to imagine the horrors of the"Great War"...and who can albeit the multiples of millions
@emmceeee
7 жыл бұрын
Remembrance Day doesn't end on the 12th........
@haggis655
8 жыл бұрын
I'm curious if anyone hears modal traces of Miklos Rozsa's score for Ben-Hur (1959) here, especially halfway through the first movement. .
@Likes_Trains
5 жыл бұрын
Sir Hugh Allen: ‘V. W. rolling over and over in a ploughed field on a wet day’ (Alain Frogley, ‘Constructing Englishness in Music; National Character and the Reception of Ralph Vaughan Williams, in Frogley, Alain (ed.), Vaughan Williams Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 16)
@271250cl
5 жыл бұрын
A serious misreading of the symphony by Allen. Contemporary critics tend to see it as RVW's 'war requiem' - a lament for friends and colleagues lost in the Great War and for rural England which finally died in 1914.
@Likes_Trains
5 жыл бұрын
@@271250cl that's much more suited to the proud character of it. Thanks for uploading this, your choice of images is most fitting.
@271250cl
5 жыл бұрын
@@Likes_Trains Hugh Allen was a great man and a close friend of RVW's but over the 100 years since it was written people have come to see the symphony in a different light. RVW said "It isn't really about lambkins frisking. It's war-music really." Thanks for your interest, Katie.
@kayellmers9132
8 жыл бұрын
Hi again Colin - another wonderful montage. are you able to tell me the source of the war photographs? There are quite a few in there we havent seen in our research for our documentary - particularly the casualties - are these Imperial War Museum? Many thanks
@271250cl
8 жыл бұрын
+Kay Ellmers Thank you for taking an interest in my video, Kay. I'm ashamed to say that, for the most part, I grab images from Google and this is the source of most of the war photos, which mean that most should be on-line somewhere. If I may offer a tip (as one who's been scouring Google for pictures for a very long time: don't be too general in your search terms. 'World War One' will only take you so far. Be specific, eg: 'life in the trenches 1914-18'; 'soldiers suffering 1914-18' and so on. Being specific often allows you to penetrate more ddeeply into Google's resources.
@ianfraser4243
9 жыл бұрын
Why not ? It's certainly one of the most moving. Britten's War Requiem ( 1963) is widely regarded as one of his finest works. Why not this? I've often been puzzled why it was ever called "Pastoral", however. I think this has arisen largely from a misreading of the first movement. Try looking at it as a musical palindrome. The first movement is the "lost age of peace", the wind rustling through the alders only partially conceals the monument to the fallen.....If that doesn't work, read AE Houseman's "Land of Lost Content".
@271250cl
9 жыл бұрын
Ian Fraser Well, Ian, it was called 'Pastoral' because that was the name the composer gave it but, as you imply, he may not have been wise to do so, since the term became more and more loaded with negative connotations as the century progressed.
@colinbiggs244sniper
9 жыл бұрын
Ian Fraser You need to chillout.
@somnitel
8 жыл бұрын
+Colin - "Pastoral" may signify a "pastoral elegy," which, iinm, was an older literary genre of remembrances of those who have departed this world.
@jackharrison6771
8 жыл бұрын
Hi Colin and thanks for posting this. There' NOTHING wrong with your taste is there? hehehe. Jack.
@patrickhawes5267
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent imagery to music. What happened to the paintings set to the pastoral, can’t seem to find that now?
@271250cl
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I de-activated the other version, hoping to get rid of intrusive ads which YT had placed in it. Thanks for reminding me about it. I have re-activated it. I hope the ads have gone but I'm not optimistic!
@patrickhawes5267
2 жыл бұрын
I may have missed it but who is playing/conducting this version? Again, beautifully done.
@271250cl
2 жыл бұрын
Roger Norrington, LPO
@kerbal29anen
10 жыл бұрын
Hi Colin - nothing to do with this piece by Vaughan Williams but we have corresponded before! I refer to Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow. A flute tune two thirds of the way through Butterworth's piece is found pretty well note for note in VW. Do you know whether it is just coincidence that they had both found an idyllic folk song tune? My question is prompted largely by curiosity but even more largely by Butterworth thinking that his music wasn't good enough!
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
Hi Jeremy. Where in RVW does the tune appear? There are several folk-songs in the Butterworth piece - this may be helpful. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Banks_of_Green_Willow I wonder what Butterworth would have done, had he lived?
@kerbal29anen
10 жыл бұрын
Colin The folk tune appears about two minutes after the start of the Intermezzo "My Bonny Boy" in the RVW English Folk Song Suite, written some 7 years after Butterworth was killed. Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow states this melody most clearly using flute and harp about 4mins and 20 seconds into his piece.
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Munro Sorry about the delay in replying - so much fan mail to deal with! :) I agree, they are the same tune. Could well be a tribute to Butterworth...
@windstorm1000
8 жыл бұрын
+Jeremy Munro I'm a fan of both composers and I think there's this particular 'English' quality to many composers of that fair isle--I don't know if its the key signature, the leisurly pace--so many other things. Its tragic that Butterworth destroyed all his unpublished music before he left for the war--how much there must have been---
@271250cl
8 жыл бұрын
Butterworth based The Banks of Green Willow on two folk song melodies that he noted in 1907: "The Banks of Green Willow" and "Green Bushes". The first was noted from the singing of "Mr & Mrs Cranstone" of Billingshurst, though a few bars from the end (after the flute and harp have played Green Bushes) a solo violin reflects on a variant of the tune, recorded by Butterworth in 1909 from the singing of David Clements in Basingstoke Workhouse. Versions of the second tune were noted from at least ten different singers, though the tune as it appears in the Idyll is not any of them. Each use of each tune varies slightly, and it is likely that Butterworth created new variants based on features of all the various versions he collected. Green Bushes as it appears in the Idyll, most closely resembles the version sung by Ned Harding of Lower Beeding, Sussex, in June 1907. Green Bushes was a common tune, and there are notable uses of it in works by Ralph Vaughan Williams (Folk Song Suite, Movement 2) and Percy Grainger (Passacaglia: Green Bushes and The Lost Lady Found).
@janemartin2416
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Colin, Vaughan Williams has been my favorite composer since my violin-playing mother introduced us to "The Lark Ascending".....kzitem.infocommunity_guidelines
@awaitthegroom
10 жыл бұрын
Colin where is the picture at 25:18 - its looks very familiar to me !!
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
Paul, I can't be more precise than that it's somewhere in the English Lake District, in Cumbria, in the extreme NW of England.
@awaitthegroom
10 жыл бұрын
Colin It looks exaclty like Loch Etive on the west coast of Scotland with Ben Cruachan in the background -Rosie
@271250cl
10 жыл бұрын
Sorry I get your name wrong, Rosie. You might be right about that location. I'm sorry I can't help more.
@awaitthegroom
10 жыл бұрын
Colin Thanks Colin its still beautiful
@frankr88
10 жыл бұрын
The location at 25:18 is Coniston Water in the Lake District taken from the west bank at the south end. The small island on the left is Peel Island, the inspiration for "Wildcat Island" in Ransome's book "Swallows and Amazons"
@salgoudsamoht
9 жыл бұрын
and what would Mr. Vaughan Williams think if he knew that a recorded performance of his Pastoral Symphony was being interrupted at the end of the 1st movement by GoogleTube with a commercial featuring giggling Japanese co-eds who are starting college and have found new friends to share the costs of an apartment in Tokyo? well, i don't know, but it sure put a very disturbing contrast to the content of this video. anyway, thanks for your effort and please know that your work is being fatally compromised by GoogleTube in Japan. saludos desde Tokio.
@271250cl
9 жыл бұрын
***** Interesting to know that Sagoud. I don't know how it got onto GoogleTube - infact, I've never heard of Googletube before. Sounds very regrettable.
@billyjoedopesmoker
9 жыл бұрын
Colin thank you very much for the wonderful music and images. youtube, he meant KZitem (which has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google for a few years now, so it makes sense to call it googletube, because it is nothing like KZitem was when it was run by the people who created it, so a change in the name to reflect the blatant commercialism of google makes sense . . . they even run their own commmercials for KZitem, with incredibly annoying music and a slogan, 'Your music' or 'You create the music' or some pointless phrase like that, just like if BBCWorld ran a commercial promoting BBCWorld because they have some empty slots for commercials that went unsold so they put their own commercial in there . . .) googletube seems like a pretty reasonable new name because google wants KZitem to be the idiot box of the 21st century. it happens in Japan occasionally - DURING a performance of a symphony, a commercial stops the music and you hear the spiel and music of whatever the company is selling and then the music continues. whatever aesthetic experience might have been building has been completely destroyed. yes, regrettable . . .
@271250cl
8 жыл бұрын
+Billy Zé Thanks for that information, Billy. Apparently there are excellent ad-block programs which remove commercials.
@271250cl
8 жыл бұрын
+Salgoud Samoht I've discovered Adblock Plus, Salgoud. It takes seconds to download and works really well. The only snag is that if you use Firefox, which I do, Adblock disappears after you shut your PC down. I've now got into the habit of simply downloading it just before I use KZitem.
@daphneanson9587
4 жыл бұрын
These illustrations which accompany RVW's extraordinary symphony are inappropriate. The symphony is a commemoration of the dead of WWI, in which he served, and esp. those who never came back. The title presumably refers to the peace they would never enjoy.
@271250cl
4 жыл бұрын
Did you watch it all the way through or just jump to a conclusion after viewing for a few minutes? As the sequence of images progresses, focus on the war sharpens and I try to suggest a range of ways in which the 'pastoral' aspect of the music relates to the soldiers, their displacement in a foreign land, their loved-ones left behind, their sacrifice in action. You are wrong, I think, to state definitively that the symphony is a memorial to the dead. Michael Kennedy certainly called it RVW's 'War Requiem' and I believe my video strives to reflect that. But - and this is important - RVW never, ever said that this was his intention. He admitted that it was 'wartime music' and 'not really about lambkins frisking' but related the music to the paintings of Corot and the landscape of France.
@jimmyhillschin9987
3 жыл бұрын
Give the guy a break Daphne. Colin has obviously spent many hours/days/weeks putting this together lovingly for our sakes, and all you can do is moan about it, with more than a degree of ignorance. It's very easy to sit on the internet and moan and the efforts of other people while doing nothing yourself.
@Giarola77
9 жыл бұрын
RVW is most of the times, understimated even inside the UK. Weird for my musical taste
@271250cl
9 жыл бұрын
Giarola77 Thanks for your comment, Giarola. If you do not know them, you might be interested in RVW's 4th, 5th and 6th symphonies.
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