Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite

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  • This is an orchestral transcription by Gordon Jacob of the original piece and was performed by the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.
    1. March: Seventeen Come Sunday 0:00
    2. Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy 3:21
    3. March: Folk Songs from Somerset 6:40
    Written in 1923, the English Folk Song Suite is one of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's most famous works for military band. Although it is commonly known by the title given above, it was actually published as "Folk Song Suite" - the title which is used on the score and parts. In 1924, the piece was arranged for full orchestra and later for brass band by Vaughan Williams' student Gordon Jacob, when the longer title was used, presumably with the composer's approval. It follows that performances and recordings by orchestras always use the later title, but those by wind bands as often use the original, shorter, title, even though bandsmen regularly talk of the "English Folk Song Suite".
    The suite consists of three movements: March, Intermezzo and another March. The first march is called Seventeen Come Sunday, the Intermezzo is subtitled My Bonny Boy and the final movement is based on four Folk Songs from Somerset. Its premiere was given at Kneller Hall on July 4, 1923, conducted by Lt Hector Adkins. It originally had a fourth movement, Sea Songs, which was played second, but the composer removed it after the first performance and published it separately (interestingly, this included an orchestration by the composer himself, not one by Gordon Jacob).
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  • @Gubbinsmcbumbersnoot
    @Gubbinsmcbumbersnoot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I woke up to this song today. In 15 years I have never once regretted having my alarm set to the local classical music station.

  • @colinbaldwin3833
    @colinbaldwin3833 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    We owe Vaughan-Williams and his contemporaries a huge debt for keeping these old folk tunes alive.

  • @MuricanBluejay52
    @MuricanBluejay52 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Everyone's talking about playing this in band while I'm just here listening to it for the first time.

    • @thomaslai1381
      @thomaslai1381 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Then allow me, as a former symphonic band member, to congratulate you on your excellent taste in music!

    • @planetmediaskateboarding
      @planetmediaskateboarding 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I never actually got to play it, but my bro did when I was in junior high.

    • @freddie-fucknmercury891
      @freddie-fucknmercury891 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I got to play it on Tuba

  • @allegroboy0
    @allegroboy0 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Vaughan Williams somehow manages to cross the bridge inbetween folk and classical effortlessly. Great piece of music.🙂

  • @tedbadger9905
    @tedbadger9905 6 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    The most under rated of all English composers! It takes me back to my childhood , I can smell the grass feel the sunshine and almost recall the innocence of that age that is now tainted by living and "experience" I want this music in my ears as I leave this mortal coil, Englishness in its completeness.

    • @rogerturner5504
      @rogerturner5504 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      With you sir.

    • @georgethakur
      @georgethakur ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Those things you remember when you hear this are immortal. The things that taint it are _not._ Take care, you'll have them again one day.

    • @barr474
      @barr474 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes tainted indeed by the age we live in

  • @victorireland8913
    @victorireland8913 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    I was brought up in Bootle, Liverpool. It was an industrial area. Usually a cold & wet weather clime. But this music - often on BBC radio - had a magical uplifting effect on me. It transported me to an imaginary village of the mind, all comforting and warm. Then England was my England.

    • @Insperato62
      @Insperato62 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Long, long ago I was born in Liverpool but brought south when I was 2. I hope you've managed to "come South" and visited some of the Cotswold and Chiltern villages, not to mention such beauties as Sussex (where my paternal ancestors farmed for centuries). Different countryside to the North which in turn has many differences between the counties. The music in the south, like the countryside, is softer. We had to sing English Folk Songs in school in the 60s:)

    • @ericparrish1515
      @ericparrish1515 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought we were going East

    • @Clydesider711
      @Clydesider711 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ericparrish1515 We are. British culture is dead.

  • @pytomaniakblog4332
    @pytomaniakblog4332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    I am from Poland. I just LOVE Ralph Vaughan WIlliam's music.

    • @nautilus9015
      @nautilus9015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It would be a pleasure to meet Ralph and personally talk to him about why I love his music so much and the joy it's brought me in unfavorable sercumstances.

    • @sofiaaparcio7079
      @sofiaaparcio7079 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tmnc

    • @oscarnp0384
      @oscarnp0384 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Djęnkuje

  • @KingPotato-nq1jv
    @KingPotato-nq1jv 7 ปีที่แล้ว +451

    I'm playing this song my freshman year in my high school on clarinet and love it to bits! I love the first movement especially. Who else is with me?

    • @alexphipps4912
      @alexphipps4912 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yep! And I'm a freshman too

    • @dustinmorace3787
      @dustinmorace3787 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      KingPotato 9090 I played it last year as a freshman. 😁

    • @huntermessick6743
      @huntermessick6743 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I played it for orchestra on violin my freshman year too :D

    • @mossycryptid6446
      @mossycryptid6446 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      we're playing it for our spring concert

    • @adn2404
      @adn2404 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm playing this in my fourth year of clarinet (grade 8). Im dead btw.

  • @timedwards921
    @timedwards921 7 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    Woke up with the part at 1:05 in my head. Haven't played this for probably 16 years...

    • @natheniel
      @natheniel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Sometimes when I was walking down the street of this busy city of Hong Kong, the Somerset melodies just randomly pop into my head.

    • @vibraphonics
      @vibraphonics 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Vaughan Williams arranged it into the hymn tune Kingsfold for the English Hymnal of 1906, after hearing the tune in Kingsfold, Sussex. That's how I first knew it.

    • @elijahcrawford7794
      @elijahcrawford7794 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's not always in the back of your head?

    • @hornkraft9438
      @hornkraft9438 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@vibraphonics : You probably know that Vaughan Williams was the editor of the (American) Episcopal Hymnal of 1940. Great compilation of hymn tunes including several of his own.

    • @user-dn9vj3qs8q
      @user-dn9vj3qs8q 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I haven't play this for 8 years, I love this part.(btw I am trombone)

  • @zacdavid184
    @zacdavid184 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    The emergence of "Pretty Caroline" from "Seventeen Come Sunday" in the first movement, with Pretty Caroline basically functioning as the trio, always gets me. It's so brilliant. Vaughan Williams had such a distinct way of doing things that his pieces are often instantly recognizable as his; his sound is so quintessentially English. I have been fortunate enough to have played this in band, orchestra, and even a brass band.

    • @CECS1
      @CECS1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Or the moments of graingerian harmonic vocabulary that pokes it's head out once in a while....

    • @georgethakur
      @georgethakur 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Year after year, day after day -- I say it over and over again -- it does _not,_ ever get old.

  • @michaelfarmer8253
    @michaelfarmer8253 8 ปีที่แล้ว +221

    In the late 60s, I had the great good fortune to play this wonderful piece under the benevolent direction of the late John B Robbins. What fine times we all had. What an extraordinary learning experience. The study of music touches your life in so ways. Enjoy your time in band and orchestra. Treasure every minute.

    • @minplayplay6510
      @minplayplay6510 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Michael Farmer woah cooool I play violin

    • @akaricky658
      @akaricky658 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I play trumpet 🎺

  • @JimboCKW
    @JimboCKW 10 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    I just love how undoubtably English Vaughan-Williams' music is. Absolutely amazing

    • @ilikeorgans
      @ilikeorgans 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Amen

    • @robrichards6391
      @robrichards6391 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Viva la vida

    • @carnivaltym
      @carnivaltym ปีที่แล้ว

      Hear, hear! And yet how deeply emotional it is, given our equally stiff upper lip!

    • @jockkent8787
      @jockkent8787 ปีที่แล้ว

      was he Welsh ?!?...I honestly don't know but the Williams mane is for sure

    • @660einzylinder
      @660einzylinder ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jockkent8787 He was born at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire on 12 October 1872. His fathers family were indeed Anglo Welsh, his mother was related to Josiah Wedgwood and Charles Darwin.

  • @wardedthorn6523
    @wardedthorn6523 7 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    R.I.P. flutes in the middle of the first movement. That part killed me my first year of wind ensemble in high school! I loved playing it though.

    • @callieperkins
      @callieperkins 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Guy ultimatecyberdog Guess who gets to play that now? HahahahahHhahahhahHAHAHHA UGH

    • @cooperhilinsky5939
      @cooperhilinsky5939 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Guy ultimatecyberdog it's been 30 years for me and I still remember how the sheet music looked!

    • @rohansrivastava4805
      @rohansrivastava4805 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Guy ultimatecyberdog And we just got the piece and I'm already dead playing it.

    • @wardedthorn6523
      @wardedthorn6523 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It gets easier with practice, but it never gets EASY. Although, I used to play it all the time, just for the fun of seeing if I could move my fingers fast enough. It's really exciting, when you get it right!

    • @rijuvallishayee9687
      @rijuvallishayee9687 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Glad I'm not on flute for this piece... those high notes look nasty!

  • @MrBluedanube
    @MrBluedanube 9 ปีที่แล้ว +356

    There is something this composer does to me... and it involves tears and an indescribable feeling of elation.

    • @orcunylmaz2851
      @orcunylmaz2851 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      James right, his sea symphony and 5th symphony also make the same effect to me

    • @TheAlb100
      @TheAlb100 9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      James It just makes me think of the English countryside in the summer and Thomas Hardy novels set in rural Wessex for some reason. I often wonder if one can truly appreciate Vaughan Williams without being English.

    • @TheAlb100
      @TheAlb100 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      TheAlb100 I tell you as well I get images of the sea, and especially the Cornish coast, customs runners and smugglers as well as all the great navy seaman who came from there. Truly evocative music.

    • @13Orcun
      @13Orcun 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      TheAlb100 i love Holst and him, they are english and they use english music, i felt very interesting good when i listen them. the main emotions are elation, victory, hope, desire.

    • @well-ur1ig
      @well-ur1ig 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      James

  • @Alji3dom
    @Alji3dom 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I heard this in School. Our music teacher played this to a class of 11 year olds in a brightly lit room due to the many windows. Outside where green fields and a woodland suddenly it became an ancient woodland and our imaginations left the room.

  • @RhiannonCaswell
    @RhiannonCaswell 9 ปีที่แล้ว +790

    The people saying it's "relatively easy" clearly do not play flute at bar 65... Literal hell.

    • @Sammiisamazing123
      @Sammiisamazing123 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Haha Rhiannon I totally agree 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @donnathomas3612
      @donnathomas3612 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      True! True!

    • @stephanieharo4995
      @stephanieharo4995 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      I totally agree ✋😂

    • @DerpedCrusader
      @DerpedCrusader 9 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Rhiannon Caswell as someone in a highschool band playing that right now, i am crying trying to practice it

    • @RhiannonCaswell
      @RhiannonCaswell 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ikill4fun23 Same here. We are performing it in one month on our band and choir tour to Banff, BC. It is pure torture! But once we get that tricky section learned it will sound amazing!

  • @anarchoutis
    @anarchoutis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The greatest patriotic composer England has ever had.

    • @georgethakur
      @georgethakur 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your cover picture's beautiful, any idea where I could find it?

  • @cacahead300
    @cacahead300 10 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    This brings back memories. I played Oboe in my College Wind Ensemble. I am 51 now and am revisiting some of the music that moved me back then. Memories of tours, concerts and private lessons, practice rooms and all the fun that band and music in general brings to us all. Thanks!

    • @owengeddes5374
      @owengeddes5374 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Congrats and Good Luck

    • @ryleeking3283
      @ryleeking3283 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Manny Tarango I just finished high school and I played oboe, this is one of my favourite pieces!

    • @christianandwoofy
      @christianandwoofy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I recently lost motivation for all music and school. I’ve been going through a lot and decided to drop all my college courses (I am 19) I was talked into reenrolling and I still had no hope for the future. After reading this comment, I was brought to tears because it reminded me of why I started. Thank you for writing this, I’ll never forget it.

    • @ericparrish1515
      @ericparrish1515 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@christianandwoofy I like it because it's no words. I'm not good with those.

    • @theresamnsota3925
      @theresamnsota3925 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As an oboist too, I feel like the Vaughan-Williams and the two Holst suites felt like the first decent oboe music in band. Played all of them in the 8th grade in my small high school…I was “promoted” to the senior high band because I was the only oboe player in the school district.

  • @MichelleHayesELA
    @MichelleHayesELA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Just found this. It's the only song. I remember from the symphonic band when I was in junior high in the 1970s. I was humming it to my son, and he suggested TH-cam. The first movement and the oboe solo stole my heart!!! We performed this at All-state Band and earned superior ratings. I love this song.

    • @davidwillmann5693
      @davidwillmann5693 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I played this in my High School Symphony Band led by the late Larry Wallace at at Wheat Ridge High School in 1970….

  • @ChrisSmith-il5qe
    @ChrisSmith-il5qe 9 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Im 23 now and played this piece when I was 17 in highschool. I wish I would have appreciated how great of a song this was then as much as I do now. Thanks for the post.

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    When hearing a name called England , my heart throbs with its greatness and profound and dignified culture .
    Prosperity and glory and saving grace of God that everlasting in England .
    Greeting from mysterious Japan

    • @JJBushfan
      @JJBushfan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Well thanks, and greetings back. But are you being serious? We English have a tendency to assume that anybody who praises us must be joking.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@JJBushfan Sadly, mostly a younger generation's bad habit. Look to your history, and the price paid for our longivity as a free nation.AND---the huge positive mark we left on the world.

    • @marcap1000
      @marcap1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You're probably dreaming of a beautiful legend. All is lost and forever.........

    • @mcpanorama
      @mcpanorama 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you for appreciating our culture.

    • @shin-i-chikozima
      @shin-i-chikozima 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@JJBushfan
      ありがとう‼️
      Arigato !
      Sorry the very late reply !
      How is your country ?
      Japan , especially Tokyo is cruel and hustle and bustle with the Coronavirus infection .
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      By the way
      I deeply love Verginia Woolf' works .
      I am impressed by her works .
      Shakespeare's 「Richard Ⅲ」and 「Macbeth 」is my favorite works .
      I know the history or 「 Elizabeth Ⅰ 」.
      So I deeply love and respect your great country .
      Yesterday I have finished 「The Lost Paradise 」
      This is great and overwhelming .
      Take care of yourself
      Good luck !
      Don't be careless
      Be on the alert for Coronavirus infection .
      Just talking or touching are infected .
      Good luck !

  • @TwinSoccerStar
    @TwinSoccerStar 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    As a trombone, playing the third movement was rough, but SO fun! I miss it so much!!

  • @ivanford3137
    @ivanford3137 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Vaughan Williams should be up with the best, I sang a lot these at school in the 1950s . Brings back memories .

  • @victorbatres2065
    @victorbatres2065 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    A wonderful work of English Folklore . I cannot understand why anybody would not like this masterpiece, unless one was from Ireland.

    • @eugeneclasby518
      @eugeneclasby518 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What a ridiculous comment. The Irish love VW. I was playing this album for my Irish roommates from Boston in Madison WI a long time ago. We all loved it. 9:33

  • @adrianrosenlund-hudson8789
    @adrianrosenlund-hudson8789 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Whenever we play this, the second movement “My bonny boy” always makes me smile. It could have been written for my own bonny boy, four and a half at time of writing ❤️

  • @mspir1252
    @mspir1252 8 ปีที่แล้ว +235

    I really have to give it to Williams.
    Only Sousa knows how to not give the Horn melody.
    Ever.

    • @mspir1252
      @mspir1252 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Great piece, though.

    • @mrbluesky5952
      @mrbluesky5952 8 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      One day my band director decided to sight read 6+ marches by Sousa to find one he liked.
      As a horn player I still have nightmares about that day

    • @harryandruschak2843
      @harryandruschak2843 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +M. Spira In Symphony #3, he used a flugelhorn :)

    • @johnries5593
      @johnries5593 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I'm guessing the baritone/euphonium players were ecstatic.

    • @mmmno3126
      @mmmno3126 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      John Ries yes they are 😂 including me

  • @abbiesmithson7677
    @abbiesmithson7677 8 ปีที่แล้ว +267

    Nearly went deaf after playing this on the piccolo

    • @TheMarcHicks
      @TheMarcHicks 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Abbie Smithson I recommend those special musicians ear-plugs!

    • @missandeeleigh
      @missandeeleigh 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Marcus Hicks I have to learn this entire piece on piccolo in less than a week!!

    • @jackydorado99
      @jackydorado99 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +alwik I have to learn the first movement for our concert in two weeks on piccolo RIP

    • @erikcreighton6474
      @erikcreighton6474 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too!

    • @erikaperkins5234
      @erikaperkins5234 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too lmao

  • @niallmark6136
    @niallmark6136 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I would just like to add a word about Gordon Jacob whose work on this orchestral transcription is truly wonderful.

  • @TheVaughan5
    @TheVaughan5 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    AS usual the great Neville Marriner gives an outstanding performance of a much loved work by RVW. Strange how this conductor, though obviously well known,doesn't received the accolades given to more "celebrity" names yet he is light years ahead of most of them in his deep understanding of the art of great music making.

  • @shauncherry7305
    @shauncherry7305 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Absolutely brilliant. How could anybody not like this?

  • @ronphelan429
    @ronphelan429 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I played this suite after 35 years absent from the Clarinet.
    I was a clarinet major in college, kind of got lost for awhile.
    Took at least a year to get most if it back, never lost my sound.
    Just the language.
    This selection in our community band just got the juices flowing again.
    Then came Covid, the killer of more than life.

  • @supergran1000
    @supergran1000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Lovely childhood memories of my dad playing this on the record player in the 60s.

  • @tonywhy9
    @tonywhy9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I played this in my freshman year of college.
    ...I played the triangle part.

  • @luciatilyard2827
    @luciatilyard2827 9 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    At about 6.37, an folk song I know some words to. 'Blow away the morning dew, The dew and the dew, Blow away the morning dew, How sweet the wind doth blow." When I was 6 or 7, my Dad had a studio built, my sister and I used the cement foundations as a stage, and we'd do a dance and sing the song as we danced. Haven't heard it in years!

  • @gracesmusicplaylists2947
    @gracesmusicplaylists2947 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The best piece of classical music ever written.

  • @bpage4132
    @bpage4132 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love this suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams [orchestrated here by Gordon Jacob, passed away on the 8/6/1984 at the age of 88], especially I like the third movement called the March: Folk Songs From Somerset, which became a signature tune for a TV series called Farming Diary for Anglia TV. A great performance from Sir Neville Marriner [who would`ve been 100 on the 15/4/2024] conducting the Academy of St. Martin In The Fields. A Great Recording. 😊😇💯❤♋

  • @nedland20
    @nedland20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I "discovered" this beautiful piece when I was a high school sophomore in 1962. I could probably still play it by memory but I had to give up my clarinet about 9 years ago and I sure miss it.

    • @garrisoncluff5367
      @garrisoncluff5367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What happened?

    • @thrashmusician035
      @thrashmusician035 ปีที่แล้ว

      You never truly forget music, the best part about it is that it just sticks with you. I’m sorry you gave up your beloved clarinet, but I believe you can play again one day :)

  • @bronwenraza6176
    @bronwenraza6176 9 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I absolutely love the bassoon part for this suite! It does high, it does sustained and it does bassy too. Sends shivers down my spine every time :3

    • @theclassicalviolist3502
      @theclassicalviolist3502 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      hi friend, The learning part of playing music is always the most fun, and sometimes challenging.

    • @filipaarezes6035
      @filipaarezes6035 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I play bassoon

    • @naurdupond8461
      @naurdupond8461 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Body's aching all the time ? 😁

    • @reevecoble1812
      @reevecoble1812 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Especially 2nd bassoon. Such a low part :)

  • @elizabethip4227
    @elizabethip4227 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    English Folk Song Suite is an amazing piece.

  • @jadenite1517
    @jadenite1517 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm an oboist and we're playing this in our band. I love the challenge of Seventeen Come Sunday and the spotlight of My Bonny Boy!

  • @heidiross1425
    @heidiross1425 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Still my favorite concert band piece to play! I've played it at least 3 different times on clarinet 2, clarinet 1 and bass clarinet! Love Williams!

    • @giganerd896
      @giganerd896 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice, fellow Bass Clarinet! I do play them all, though

  • @a_friendly_wisp_
    @a_friendly_wisp_ 8 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I love this piece! We are playing it in band this year, this is my second time playing it (first in a concert). Last time I played it was as a freshman so I had a pretty low part but now I'm a senior and playing the 1st cornet part with all the solos and it's a lot of fun. When I was a freshman, I looked up all the solos and learned how to play them. My friends and I listened to (and conducted)(like the nerds we are) this piece all the time. It's one of my favorites! Definitely helpful to sit and listen to it if you are playing it (as with most things).

    • @kathleenmoore6679
      @kathleenmoore6679 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Nadine Morgan I played this song freshman year! Second clarinet over here, the song is a bit tricky but awesome!!

    • @brianramirez9445
      @brianramirez9445 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Kathleen M yessss!! I have 1st part on clarinet we barley got this song yesterday ;)

    • @abcbcde9985
      @abcbcde9985 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks Nadine, your words keep this alive.

  • @eugenemorice3353
    @eugenemorice3353 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    God rest Neville Marriner who died a few days ago!! At last, a version on TH-cam where "17 come Sunday" isn't being played at 100 miles an hour !! Played this as a Trumpeter in the Penzance Youth Wind band from 1977 to 1982 !!! Loved it then... Love it now!

  • @wanyuhuang8802
    @wanyuhuang8802 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I came across this about 3 months while I was doing data analysis, and letting a collection vaughan wlliams run at the background. All of sudden I was caught up by this SPECIFIC one. I stopped my work, went back to the track, and figured the name of the piece out. Then I learned this (as a violinist) in my spare time. I played this to one of my friends and her roommate yesterday to celebrate 2022 new year. They liked it so much, almost started dancing to it! Haha! Proud of my music appreciation (being able to identify a masterpiece subconciously during work)!

  • @wendyflay5114
    @wendyflay5114 10 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Whenever I hear the first piece I have intense visions of Sailors dancing around doing a cross between Irish dancing and the hornpipe, Perhaps I did see this as a child on TV and half forgot it. It fills me with joy.

    • @lenoregorman4688
      @lenoregorman4688 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think it's the sound of traditional English music that he incorporates into his music, that I luv.

    • @Insperato62
      @Insperato62 ปีที่แล้ว

      We danced to English folk dances at school and I'm 75.

  • @markherron1407
    @markherron1407 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I like the English folk song suite! Rest in peace ✌️ Ralph Vaughan Williams! Blessings and hugs 🤗💞😂💘💘❤️😊❤️💕☺️🤗❤️💕💖🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏!

  • @thommyrinke303
    @thommyrinke303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This as English as English can be...beautiful music...

  • @ameliapond9830
    @ameliapond9830 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was fortunate enough to play the solo in Intermezzo played on violin in this recording, but I did it on clarinet. It was my first exposed solo and I was so incredibly nervous especially since our first performance was a competition. This piece makes me remember that day and how it was the start to get me out of my shell and better at doing solos.

  • @sunnyr1154
    @sunnyr1154 7 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Go clarinets!! Woo!

    • @maniachik92
      @maniachik92 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      this was so much fun to play on clarinet

    • @alexphipps4912
      @alexphipps4912 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I know

    • @billholder1330
      @billholder1330 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree, I played this on clarinet, bass clarinet, and contrabass, way back in high school 40 years ago. More recently I've been slowly trying to figure out pieces of it from memory on electric bass guitar. :) (Hearing it again sure helps, even have sheet music now, if I can remember how to read it.) :)

    • @harmonyallen7905
      @harmonyallen7905 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alex Phipps yas

    • @qhapaqinka
      @qhapaqinka 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I played bass clarinet in high school and loved this piece :D Used to hum the melody all the time.

  • @davidrehak3539
    @davidrehak3539 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Ralph Vaughan Williams:Angol népdal Szvit
    1.Induló:Tizenhét jön vasárnap (Allegro) 00:00
    2.Intermezzo:Az én Bonny Boyom (Andantino) 03:21
    3.Induló: Somerset népdalok (Allegro) 06:40
    Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
    Vezényel:Sir Neville Marriner

  • @PacRimJim
    @PacRimJim 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It took VW decades of learning to pack so much beauty into these 10+ minutes.
    This is one reason he remains known worldwide simply by his surname.

  • @all1rog
    @all1rog 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Gordon Jacob's arrangement is brilliant: exactly what RVW would have done, if he had had the time or inclination. So good, in fact, that most people have no idea that it was not done by RVW. I have always loved this suite, in both its forms.

  • @jbut1208
    @jbut1208 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Vaughan Williams captures the spirit of Britain in this piece!

  • @hornkraft9438
    @hornkraft9438 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is great music along with the two Holst Suites.

  • @midnighter1339
    @midnighter1339 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One of the first songs we played in college Wind Symphony and I can't help but think of everyone in the band every time I play it

  • @mckenzie.latham91
    @mckenzie.latham91 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    When i hear this music i envision a bright green English country side on a fine summer day, and a couple of playful fox cubs and their watchful mother leaping across the swaying grass hills in frolic and play.

    • @abcbcde9985
      @abcbcde9985 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What a delightful vision!

    • @akirak1871
      @akirak1871 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It makes me think of Christmas in Victorian-era London.
      Either way, both beautiful visions. Cheers!

    • @abcbcde9985
      @abcbcde9985 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wow! One vision of rural mid summer and another of urban mid winter. But, hey, both ways it give me goose bumps! Thank you Mckenzie and Akirak. It just shows how art can touch us all in different ways yet still be valid.

    • @mckenzie.latham91
      @mckenzie.latham91 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      akirak
      Now that you put that image in my head, i agree... both work for me :)

    • @abcbcde9985
      @abcbcde9985 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOL, TH-cam the home of 'hate etc' messages, yet we seem to be forming a mutual appreciation society! That is soooo cool! Thanks to you guys and to Ralph V Williams, of course.

  • @liamanderson6424
    @liamanderson6424 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Played this in the high school orchestra in New Zealand, twice. Definitely my favourite suite that I've played.

  • @Pizzapie398
    @Pizzapie398 9 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    A flute player with this song... Measure 65.. I'm ready to die.. Jk but so high and hard.

    • @alisalman9283
      @alisalman9283 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Peter Suh pray for the 2nd trombone mate! It's even higher!!!

    • @landonthis_3499
      @landonthis_3499 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love it though xD That moment when you memorized it all....

    • @mentallyderangedflutist
      @mentallyderangedflutist 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I play flute in this song

  • @pssteve69
    @pssteve69 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have played this piece many times over the years. It is such great band literature. I remember learning this piece a long time ago when I was in high school. I played the flute or piccolo part. It is pretty challenging especially starting around 1 minute. I remember practicing it so much as it was so challenging. As I listen to it now I find myself fingering it. I still remember it, after all these years. I guess it was so engrained in me from practicing it and also playing it so many times. There is a reason that it is a standard for band literature.

  • @sydney7113
    @sydney7113 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    playing first flute in school band and second in symphony . . . rip

  • @darryllharden9141
    @darryllharden9141 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The third segment 'March Folk Songs from Somerset' always reminds me of when Anglia T.V's 'Farming Diary' was on the T.V on Sunday Mornings back in the Late 70's/Early 80's.

  • @cloeykelly4845
    @cloeykelly4845 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    DAT SOLO CLARINET YAAAASSSS
    I'm so sad we aren't playing this for our next concert, but all the same, I loved playing it the couple of times that I did play it. :D

  • @overdonelasagna5751
    @overdonelasagna5751 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As a 1st Tenor player, going from G to lowest Bb as a bass during an absolutely perfect trumpet choir just sends chills down my spine for the rest of the 3rd Movement

  • @Aventurin98
    @Aventurin98 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    R.V. Williams creates such an amazing atmosphere. I love his way how he developed melodies and themes . One of the good old great masters!

  • @evorock
    @evorock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Playing this next month as part of our 'last night of the proms' concert and to the piccolo's flutes and oboes out there i totally understand your pain. As a 1st violin, this piece is a whole new fresh level of hell!

  • @TheNjones37
    @TheNjones37 10 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    This is a monster piece. I'm playing it on second trombone for my High school Symphonic winds ensemble.

    • @gamermanh
      @gamermanh 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Im doing the same, but lead cornet instead of trombone, our version has it doing all the oboe solos and whatnot

    • @TheNjones37
      @TheNjones37 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same! We have the original score before the most updated version.

    • @jamesnsam859
      @jamesnsam859 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i am playing 3rd clarinet it is an amazing i love 1st movement

    • @TheNjones37
      @TheNjones37 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I hate the first movement and 3rd movement. the huge low brass section starting at measure 65 and then the low brass again in movement 3 with the melody. Other than that, I love it.

    • @CNR.5K
      @CNR.5K 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've got 1st Trumpet

  • @reezy8453
    @reezy8453 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We're performing this in my band. I'm so excited!

  • @iamhistorygeek
    @iamhistorygeek 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Playing this in band next week. Super excited.

    • @abcbcde9985
      @abcbcde9985 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hope it went well Liam

  • @Monocultured01
    @Monocultured01 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Everybody in my band absolutely loves this song. It's so great. I had the timpani part, so I only played for a few measures in the second movement, but I still enjoyed it because this song is so awesome.

  • @abrielleelyse6264
    @abrielleelyse6264 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    playing this piece in contest never loved playing the oboe more

  • @christinan3873
    @christinan3873 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My god, the middle of the first movement is a killer for flutes... all those high notes! I'm dead every time after playing this.

  • @georgethakur
    @georgethakur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of those never-tiring things. Love the first segment--and the third. So good to hear High Germany. What a tune!

  • @elainebmack
    @elainebmack 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love this piece, both in the original concert band version as well as this one. It's a fine piece in that it is relatively easy for less experienced players to perform, yet it sounds really good, not like Vaughan Williams was "writing down". I love the second movement. It has a nice cello part!

  • @threer3dgn0m3warriors9
    @threer3dgn0m3warriors9 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My school band is going to play all the songs when we go to Carnegie Hall

  • @kathryncoles4206
    @kathryncoles4206 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My mother and dad had the album and I loved listening to it as well.

  • @TheFlutepookie11
    @TheFlutepookie11 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Playing the first song in my spring concert. 2nd chair flute and the only one that knows how to play it. Wish we were playing the entire piece so beautifully written.

  • @BootyClapFan
    @BootyClapFan 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This piece has an adventures kind feel to it, the first 3 minutes..

    • @ilikemusic3966
      @ilikemusic3966 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Mike Patton reminds me of covered wagons

  • @Jason-ld3mb
    @Jason-ld3mb 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Every 1st Trumpet knows the struggle of John Barleycorn at the end of the 3rd Movement... .-.

    • @mtroller2000
      @mtroller2000 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Jason ツ i feel you bro. the tips is to not play in 'tree so high'

    • @Jason-ld3mb
      @Jason-ld3mb 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Michael Blakie that's what I do. All the 1st trumpets just taking turns resting, makes it a bit easier.

    • @jadkellybrycejkb3153
      @jadkellybrycejkb3153 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Afkcorgi Games YES

    • @yourmother3207
      @yourmother3207 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      John Barleycorn is a euphonium chop buster

    • @matthewamori7801
      @matthewamori7801 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ツJason the ending of this piece was a killer on already tired chops lmao

  • @anoramactir
    @anoramactir 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Played piccolo on this in high school, which was over 15 years ago -- wow, the nostalgia I had as soon as I heard it again!

    • @ardaonen4968
      @ardaonen4968 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      anoramactir 16 y/o hearing music from 4 years ago is enough for me can't imagine 15

    • @landonthis_3499
      @landonthis_3499 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ay i play that now ^^

  • @Jasminem91099
    @Jasminem91099 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is honestly one of my favorite pieces of music. I loved playing it in band!

  • @ycrvads411
    @ycrvads411 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    When your band director tricks the band into thinking this song will be our field show

  • @deviousdiamonddesigns9017
    @deviousdiamonddesigns9017 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I play clarinet and have had the pleasure of playing this piece. It's so much fun and it sounds amazing!

  • @barracuda0405
    @barracuda0405 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow I love it so much! I played this in an orchestra and the feeling was so amazing! I'll never forget it! ♡

  • @BandBoy1410
    @BandBoy1410 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would love to play this work again. Perfection.

  • @corinneolivier1871
    @corinneolivier1871 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    :51-1:00 always gets me and overwhelms me with emotion idk why. I just get really into it when I play This section

  • @threer3dgn0m3warriors9
    @threer3dgn0m3warriors9 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Carnegie hall was fun and New York itself. Our band played good in Carnegie Hall, glad the pressure is off now

  • @benlumboo7
    @benlumboo7 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Played this piece for one of my British school of music Clarinet Exams and nailed it !! Lovely piece !

  • @pandatbe5674
    @pandatbe5674 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The trio in the third movement has my heart ❤

  • @daveburch235
    @daveburch235 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Despite the title "British Band Classics", this is the orchestral version of the piece. Still great music, though it's hollow to hear string basses playing one of the fun trombone lines...

  • @ludicer122
    @ludicer122 9 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Proud to be English, Proud to be British.

    • @kamchuenso7836
      @kamchuenso7836 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      poor british ,ur country going to be ruled under muslims lol

    • @alangonzalez5565
      @alangonzalez5565 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No mate we're taking it back, remember Speakers Corner Tommy Robinson

    • @joeblack8915
      @joeblack8915 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ Kam Cheun So. Go away you yellow, slitty eyed fuckwit.

    • @antimatter31
      @antimatter31 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Racism is not the reason the British Empire fell

    • @smookie1989
      @smookie1989 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      beautifull history and music. im hope, you will not lost your culture by multiculturalism

  • @madelinekuhl8989
    @madelinekuhl8989 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the 2nd movement..... the strings really make it special 😊

  • @dudemcguy1194
    @dudemcguy1194 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i umm dont listen to classic music often, but this shows me why i should do more often!
    awesome

  • @barryskelton7369
    @barryskelton7369 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Can i just say Brilliant.

  • @tammilough2055
    @tammilough2055 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Playing the Piccolo part freshmen year of high school was a pain in the first movement but it was fun

  • @michaelfarmer8253
    @michaelfarmer8253 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fortunate indeed was I in the late 60s. Under the inspired direction of the late, great John B Robbins we played this magnificent piece of music. Fine friendships were forged amidst the heat of his demanding leadership. Thank you, MasterDecoder for these memories

  • @anniefaucher8143
    @anniefaucher8143 8 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    pretty sure Williams hates the clarinet section

    • @mistermistery4097
      @mistermistery4097 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Annie Faucher Oh that part at 65? Yeah that's annoying. but it sounds awesome!

    • @AnaniAnime
      @AnaniAnime 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Annie Faucher Yes but it's so fun to play when you actually know how too. And it sounds cool!

    • @mistermistery4097
      @mistermistery4097 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** Yeah, I know how to play it now and its so fun playing with the base melody too

    • @anniefaucher8143
      @anniefaucher8143 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mister Mistery ***** Yeah ikr I LOVE this song though

    • @lizcormell8895
      @lizcormell8895 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Try flute or piccolo lol Challenging but great fun. Music for the heart.

  • @diamond21450
    @diamond21450 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Perfect,
    Thank you.
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • @alanhigh8125
    @alanhigh8125 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This takes me back to high school band, 1976-79. I played trumpet, and Williams is my favorite composer, with Alford a close second. 1:05 has always evoked images of a battle or a great storm at sea aboard an 18th century sailing ship.
    William's "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" was prominently featured in the film "Master and Commander: The Other Side of The World."

  • @chrisbaker2903
    @chrisbaker2903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really love this piece of music. To me it's the epitome of great listening music, engaging and sticks with you in your memories without ever becoming tiring like so many pieces do when you have them in your head for days or weeks at a time. Someone recently mentioned Bach's English suites and I had to exclaim that they weren't even in the same quality neighborhood as this English Suite.

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am cycling the bank of the Tone River which is the Japanese biggest river while humming this song .
    The scenery of this winter withering is lonesome .
    I am impatient for the Japanese Spring when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom .
    Greeting from Tokyo in Japan
    Which national are you seeing this video ?

    • @sassychick102
      @sassychick102 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      小島信一 Germany

    • @jantonacci7129
      @jantonacci7129 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      United States

    • @shin-i-chikozima
      @shin-i-chikozima 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sassychick102 ありがとう❗お便り感謝しています‼️
      Thank you very much to your reply .
      Everyone in Japan knows that Germany is the great and respected country .
      I pray that there is God,s blessing and prosperity and glory in my favorite Germany .
      So long

    • @sassychick102
      @sassychick102 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      小島信一 lthank you

    • @shin-i-chikozima
      @shin-i-chikozima 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sassychick102 You are welcome .
      Japan is the rainy season soon ,
      and the rainy days are increased for about one month .
      When the rainy season over , hell,s summer comes .
      Someday please come to Japan in the height of spring or autumn .
      Japanese spring and autumn are incomparable beauty .
      So long !