Ralph Vaughan Williams: Music for Maeterlinck's symbolist drama, "The Death of Tintagiles"
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- [Richard Hickox conducts the LSO on a Chandos CD]
A synopsis of Maeterlinck's play:
The Queen, who possesses complete control over her servants and people, has killed most of Tintagiles family. Ygraine and Bellangère try to protect him, but he is captured by the Queen's servants and brought to her castle. Ygraine pursues them to the castle door. Tintagiles cries for help from behind the door, but Ygraine is unable to open it and he is murdered by the Queen.
I have loved VW's music since I first heard the 6th symphony on a car radio in 1949 or 1950. A few years later I was in a University chorus that performed two of his works. When I graduated I sent him a note telling him how much I enjoyed his music and he responded, encouraging me to continue with choral groups (unfortunately this was inconsistent with my career as a field geologist). His letter hangs, framed, in our living room. I thought I was familiar with most of his works but this beautiful piece was new to me. Thanks so much for posting it!
Big fan of RVW but never came across this before. He is for me, one of the most soulful and image provoking composers ever.
Thanks for posting and nice pics!
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 .
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Wow! Jedes neue Werk von Ralph Vaughan-Williams, das ich noch nicht kannte, ist eine Entdeckung. Eine Musik von ungeheuer atmosphärischer Dichte! Unfassbar stark.
Und in Deutschland fast unbekannt - für mich unfassbar. Jedes vernünftiges Orchester sollte wenigstens seine 4., 5. und 6. Sinfonie in seiner Repertoire haben.
Yes new to me this one and of course a RVW piece is always amazing ❤
Best composer ever!
I discovered this over a year ago, it continues to haunt me to this day.
When bored by radio, and even my CD collection, these playlists provide unending pleasure. Familiar melodies mingled with refreshing, strange unknowns. Plumbing the depths of classical music which appear to be unfathomable!
Thank God for TH-cam!
The images you have chosen to accompany this hauntingly beautiful piece are simply perfect. Thank you for the obvious care you take in presenting RVW's beloved compositions.
WOW!!!!
Fantastic discovery...thanks for sharing 👍
I really miss Richard Hickox 😔
WOW what an amazing find. I love RVW and have never heard of this work before. So excited listening to it.
Dramatically melancholic. RVW is great.
Ditto the above. Big RVW fan but never heard this wonderful piece by him
Ditto everyone else......and I have a huge collection of RVW CDs, and used to be in the RVW Society.
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I agree, my dear David!
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Colin, I remember reading a comment to one of your other videos expressing astonishment at how much value you provide to us via TH-cam. I'd have to say that comment was spot on. Thanks for all you do and share.
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I don't really know much about Maeterlinck or his play, but I do love Vaughan Williams' work. This is a great recording! Thanks so much for putting this on TH-cam!!!
Very powerful visual presentation to go with the music. Holst would have loved this, too.
At first hearing to me! Nice!
He is a master. Beautiful music and lovely pics.
I was swallowed by a whirlpool of emotion with so much excellent performance . 🍎
Warm thanks and greetings from Sweden, very warm thanks!
Many thanks, Jan. Glad you like it!
As always, Ralph Vaughan Williams is always a complete favorite! Thank you!
A real rarity. The popularity of “The Lark Ascending” 2nd (London) symphony and a couple of other works tends to overshadow the fact that RVW as a prodigious composer with, even today, much of his output being seldom performed.
You always select beautiful images accompanying the music . Thank you Colin .
Thank you Colin for the huge amount of time and effort to compile these music videos .....not easy .....great job and the music of VW is just sublime ......my go to in the mornings .......it stirs the heart
Many thanks!
Thank you so much for posting these. Vaughan Williams has always been one of my favorite composers. I am playing these for my 13 & 14 year old Hispanic students in Texas.
So glad you like it Larry! And I hope it's well received by your students!
Hi Colon, it only took me 5 1/2 years to discover this (wink!), and I am glad I finally did. I am a big "fan" of the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and I greatly admire your ability to combine images w/ the music so beautifully. Thank you for the time and effort you put in to create these videos. my post 05/27/2018
Many thanks Roger.
Perfectly put RogerC
thank you for all of the Vaughan Williams...:)
Lovely... I adore Vaughan Williams and a new piece is a treasure, thank you!
Greetings form the Blue Ridge Mountains. This was a beautiful start to my day. Thank you Mr. Colin!
Remarquable pièce de musique qui dit bien à quel point Maeterlinck a inspiré les compositeurs de Debussy bien sûr jusqu'à Schoenberg en pasant par Sibelius et quelques autres dont Fauré. Au-delà de Pelléas et Mélisande, il faut lire la poésie et les essais de Maeterlinck en particulier Le Trésor des humbles de 1896 : "Il est bon de rappeler aux hommes que le plus humble d'entre eux a le pouvoir de sculpter, d'après un modèle divin qu'il ne choisit pas, une grande personnalité morale, composée en parties égales et de lui et de l'idéal." Merci pour cette enthousiasmante découverte.
Made sure to visit Tintagel my first time in England. Verrry ancient ruins, you almost feel as though they're pulling you back into that story'd mythopoetic time. Good place for the Once and Future King to be born. And this is a good companion to the Bax. Well posted, sirrah!
Thank you very much, Colin, for always sharing such beautiful music and visual art. Frederic Smith, Santiago de Chile
Really appreciate
RVW's music catches the haunted, bleak atmosphere of the play better than Loeffler's tone poem inspired by the same play. The synopsis above is not quite accurate, but good enough for the purpose. It needs to be said that Tintagiles is a very young boy -- which adds to the pathos. He and his defenders (his two sisters) are helpless and powerless before the queen's malice. This music was written in 1913 for a stage production in London.
I thought I heard echoes of the London Symphony, which would make sense, time-wise.
Angelic Music.
Thank you for his fine upload!
Like all the other contributors I am grateful to youtube for posting this fascinating music, unknown to me and I thought I knew all the VW scores. This is typical of his writing, and yet....somehow different!
@edclifton8920....how wonderful you have a framed letter ❤❤
Gracias
This is a great discovery for me...very atmospheric. Reminds you of Sibelius quite a lot. Thanks!
Hey Colin, I hope you know how much of an impact you have on your listeners. Please add me to your list of "very grateful "tubers"), this is also a new one for me; thanks for the synopsis......
Glad you enjoy my channel Richard! And thanks for taking the time to let me know.
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to and watching, a great many of your videos, Colin. Many, many thanks!!
Richard Brown Very glad you like them, Richard, and thanks for taking the time to comment!
Amazing! Cheers for this gem
beaytifully done.... thank you for uploading
Colin, - Again, many thanks and greetings from Sweden!
Thanks Jan. Good to hear from you.
Thank you for this.
Thanks for another splendid video, friend!
I don't know where RVW came up with his material on which to compose. I mean, "Riders to the Sea," "The Garden of Porsepine," and "The Death of Tintagiles"? They all have dire consequences and endings, and are not what one might expect for firm, hopeful, or even optimistic conclusions. I guess after seeing your father die at age two, living through WWI and WWII, and seeing your first wife die, what could one expect? Funny/strange that RVW lived to a ripe old age. He apparently knew what to expect out of life, which seems to have been a lot of suffering and seemingly random actions upon Nature's part. i.e., "fate." Didn't Beethoven in his Fifth Symphony try to say the same?
17 de octubre 2018 /Sr.Colin: Me gusta no solo la música de R.V.Williams sino las fotos elegidas,que son MUY sugestivas.....Gracias por ese video!
Encore une magnifique vidéo ! Merci Colin . J'adore Maeterilnck, Vaughan Williams et le choix des images est un ravissement !
Marie Jeanne Nguyen-Tacchi Je suis très heureux que ça vous a plu ! Merci Marie Jeanne.
Vos vidéos sont toujours de grande qualité. Merci encore.
Thanks for the recording. I consider myself quite familiar with RVW but not with this. It still is great music but certainly does not sound like his typical English Romanticism. And not by the composer who wrote the Lark.
Beautiful but shame about the ad break half way through.
A beautiful and very creative job of illustrating what I think must have been a very challenging piece. It's appropriately sinister and the visuals are lovely, many of them looking more like paintings than photographs.
loved it!!
I like the Fotos.... Are they yours 😮???
...I like this one too Colin.. :) .
Maybe the symphonic music, poetry, painting, architecture from the Rennaissance to of the mid- twentieth century in Europe are simply what exists that is most exquisite on earth? Or, the most total expression, as everything else seems to be characterized by lack.
Everything high is followed by a low. But Being with this music leaves me on a high..
After doing some research about the play. I find it was for marionettes and an early work by RVW. Other composers also wrote music for the play.
awesome,,who is playing this? and who is conducting
Kent Lumm Full details are given at the end of the video, Kent
Near-perfect amalgam of image and music.
Year of composition please
The artists performing would have at least deserved a mention....
Johann. My uploads are for watching as well as listening to, though I'd say the music is 99% more important than the images which I put to it, of course. Full details of the performers are given at the end of the video and you would have seen them if you had watched it through. I take your point, however, and will add this information to the introduction. If you REALLY want to support the musicians, I'd urge you to go out and buy the CD.
I agree to a certain extent with that. I do appreciate it though, if the artists performing a work are given credit, after all, they are still alive, which often cannot be said about the creator of the work.
some of the themes here... for me at least... were used by VW's great friend Holst in The Planets. Holst started work on the Planets shortly after this work
I totally can't hear that. Are you very familiar with that Planets Suite?
@@davealbrecht12 I don't hear any themes from The Planets either.
I wish I could experience the complete score! or maybe this is...it?
This is all that has been recorded.
@@271250cl Such haunting stuff.
@@kaybeenullenvoyde9196 It certainly is. Poor Vaughan Williams wrote the music for a puppet play to be performed at the home of a very wealthy woman in London. It was quite a big party with lots of food and wine. The guests were noisy and took little notice of the play or the music. When it was over, RVW was furious to discover that his musicians were not invited to the buffet-supper, so he led them into the dining rooms and told them to tuck in. He went home, threw the music in a drawer and it didn't see the light of day until after he died!
@@271250cl That is just execrable. On too many levels I cannot even address.
Souhaitons que France Musique ou radio Classique fassent mieux connaître ce compositeur que je découvre .....
+Jean Pierre Jolly Dites à tous vos amis au sujet de Vaughan Williams, Jean-Pierre! :)
Quel est le titre du tableau et/ou le nom du peintre à 2,35 mn ?
Ce n'est pas une peinture. Je pense que c'est une image de synthèse basée sur une peinture de Caspar David Friedrich .
Merci pour votre réponse. Je pensais bien à Caspar David Friedrich (un de ses tableaux est très proche de celui-ci) mais la précision un peu "mécanique" de cette illustration me semblait un peu douteuse.
Have to look up tintagiles, I know nothing about this
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