Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 8 in D Minor
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- Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 8 in D Minor (1956)
Performed by the Halle Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Mark Elder
Movement One: Fantasia (Variazioni senza Tema). Moderato - 0:00
Movement Two: Scherzo alla marcia (per stromenti a fiato). Allegro alla marcia - 10:52
Movement Three: Cavatina (per stromenti ad arco). Lento espressivo - 14:40
Movement Four: Toccata. Moderato maestoso - 23:50
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Love the Finale with all of those Percussions on the forefront, probably the best practical "Essay" on their orchestral use.
more than 30 years since i've listened to this- -it comes up very fresh. My local library (Hastings) had a copy of the score. Thanks for posting.
Great music
🪐 - planetary mood for music
This is a stunning performance of this great score. RVW composed part of this symphony in America, in residence at Cornell University. IThe symphony won the New York Critic's Circle Award for the best new score heard in New York in 1956.
It should also be mentioned that he was a sprightly 84 years old when he wrote it
@@ThaSchwab -- ........BRAVO....at age 78.....from Acapulco!
the 3rd movement kills me every time..
I called this Symphony
The townshire of the bell factory
The Horn part though...
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As I pointed out in a recent article for the Musical Times it is also
possible to hear the VARIATIONS FOR BRASS BAND (1957) as a kind of fifth
movement in a manner that reflects a kind of divertissiment: the
'variations with a theme' of the brass band work complements the first
movement 'variations without a theme' of the symphony and the 'brass
band' forms another 'consort' of colors complimenting the 'consort'
colors of the individual movements of the symphony. The unprecedented
presence of celesta and glockenspiel in the brass band work amplifies
the connection to the "all kinds of phones" of the symphony finale. It
is a creative way of looking at it but, as I show in my analysis, there
are many thematic links between the two works that are also in dialog
with the Ninth Symphony. (The "lack of cohesiveness" in the Eighth, as
noted by others also, also accommodates such connections.)
Variations for Brass Band in the orchestral version is one of my favourite VW pieces.
I wonder if Williams drew Harry Potter inspiration from this?