Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica [Haitink] Sheila Armstrong
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- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony N°. 7)
00:00 1. 1st Movement: Prelude- Andante maestoso*
10:13 2.. 2nd Movement: Scherzo- Moderato
16:42 3. 3rd Movement: Landscape- Lento (Malcolm Hicks, organ)
27:41 4. 4th Movement: Intermezzo- Andante sostenuto
33:27 5. 5th Movement: Epilogue- Alla marcia, moderato (non troppo allegro)*
Sheila Armstrong, soprano*
London Philharmonic Choir
(Chorus master: Richard Cooke)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Bernard Haitink
1985
photo "La Belgica" au mont William, Antarctique.
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I remember attending the London premiere of this in or around 1952 in the recently built Royal Festival Hall. Sir Adrian Boult conducted, and at the conclusion, an elderly gentleman came onto the podium and shook hands with him, it was RVW himself, a special memory!
My jealousy is UNBOUNDED, I have been an admirer of RVW all my life a magnificent composer he was truly a great man.
I can only imagine how special the memory of that event must be to you.
I was in London many times in the 1960s and managed attend a concert at RFH, I am now 81 yo and have lived in the USA for 53 years, my hope is that I can hear a concert at the Albert Hall before my end.
Best wishes
That. is. Amazing!
Wish I had been there! Wonderful memories
40 years of listening it... every time, it's like the first time in 1980
He's our greatest; not even a modern prodigy like Thomas Ades can surpass Vaughan Williams
I saw the movie, "Scot of the Antarctica", as a boy 70 years ago and the effect was so profound on one so young, that listening to this beautiful score today evoked the same emotions as those I felt back then. I have never seen the movie again since, but this revived the drama of that ill fated expedition so vividly, I might have seen it just yesterday.
A great film! I watch it once a year.
This magnificent work and performance gives me a unique impression as a Japanese person
My emotion to this splendid performance is beyond description , and unfathomable
From
Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
There is something about art that evokes empty spaces that always reminds me of Ma, the Japanese artistic tradition that emphasizes emptiness
When the heart is open, all cultures speak to it. The Kabuki play Sogo from Sakura domain (佐倉惣五郎) is equally beautiful. A true masterpiece.
Kurosawa used this music in his last movie "Dreams" that is how I discovered this wonderful music. And that movie is exceptionnal too.
Vaughan Williams was gifted for large evocations. Here, his 7° symphonies evoke the vast icy and windy areas of Antarctica. The genius of Vaugan Williams makes that this as both a precise evocation and an abstract symphony.
It begins life as a film score, “SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC.” It is a shockingly evocative film score, with the material worked into this great symphony.
This music perfectly captures the terror of a vast open landscape which has become claustrophobic through its inhospitability.
A wonderful tribute to Scott and his team in probably the greatest exploration journey ever made. Included expectations, disappointments, bravery, self sacrifice and showing the fortitude of human endeavour. Scott will always be associated with Christchurch which was his base before departing for Antarctica.
What a monumental masterpiece of music he left us!!! Loved it since i first heard iy in 79 on a Sunday afternoon....
Sinfonia Antarctica - one of RVW's most inspirational and amazing works.
Surely one of the most evocative scores for a film ever written.
The music was written by Williams for the film ' Scott of the Antartic '.It is a masterpiece of of using music as an audio evocation of what is a brutal physical landscape and mans attempt to conquer it.It contains the pathos,agony and sheer unrelenting heartache that must have been felt by Scott's party.I remember sitting in the cinema many years ago and RWV's music conveyed all of the above.
The movie itself is very good--it was made excellent by this music.
Without any doubt! Vaughan-Williams was the perfect choice for this massive, eerie, sometimes overwhelming score - he created a stand-alone work of enormous magnitude. Those like myself who've tried our hand at music composition literally stand with our mouths hanging open, listening to this EXPANSE of a score... just mindblowing, really!
The Symphony No.7..wasn't actually written for the Film..it was developed from his Score of the Film!
That ghostly voice at 3:06 just flips me out.
An aw(e)ful reminder that Nature is greater than us, and to think any different, is at our own peril. It's not mentioned in any of the comments that the Symphony is based on music that RVW wrote for the film Scott of the Antarctic (1948). The Amundsen/Scott story is already one of the great historic tragedies. But then with music like this who needs a movie.
It is a good reminder of nature's power; unfortunately we have an awful lot of people who think we can still toy with it or command it. I could just close my eyes and picture the bleakness, cold & hopelessness of Antarctica that these explorers experienced. The wailing women's voices sound like howling wind and the percussion sounds just like chunks of ice falling off into the ocean.
Ian Fraser - it is interesting to see quite how developed the symphony is in comparison with the film score.
It's not
As a longtime fan of Ralph Vaughan Williams and his music, I knew this to be the case. I'm glad that you pointed out for other viewers Sinfonia Antartica's debt to the Scott of the Antarctic movie. I have nearly all of Vaughan Williams' works on CD/iTunes, even some rarely known ones, like Willow-Wood and The Sons of Light.
This one by VW and Schubert's Unfinished are neck and neck for my favorite symphony. And with your knowledge of Scott's expedition, I thought you might enjoy one of my poems in a book I published last year:For you... I'd sail the seven seas( talk about seasick)...I'd swim the deepest ocean( air! cough, cough, air!)...I'd cross the farthest desert( you call This a sunscreen?) I'd journey to the South Pole (what do you mean, you forgot the food basket!)..I'd trek to outer space( funny how gravity isn't missed until you're without it)..Maybe a poem is better, after all. I love you! By Mrs.Colleen Cupido
This is define a Master Peace.
Hauntly beautiful. What a composer RvW is. A true Genies.
Thank you for this immortal master work.
At the 25:00 mark, the king of instruments enters and all small subwoofers cry in anguish.
I've never forgotten those moments, when, as a Prommer in the Royal Albert Hall I saw the whole orchestra playing for dear life - but not a sound they made could be heard.
The organ enters at the 20:19 mark. At 25:00 it enters the second time.
Vaughan Williams symphony 7 and schostakovich 8 both are soundtracks to places and events that capture the imagination and pure genius!
Fantastic rendition and conveyance of this sterile and clinical landscape. RVW has a unique way of expressing atmosphere and emotion.
One is humbled by the beauty of this piece of work.
A marvellously inventive piece of music that never diminishes with the replaying. I suppose it is more like a concert suite than a Symphony, but it matters little how you view it; it is a triumph. He used innovations such as a wind-machine with women's voices, and let us not forget the climactic use of the organ in the 3rd movement! Each of the movements is preceded by superscriptions that are often read out at performances (these includes passages from the Psalms, from Scott's Journal, etc). My favourite is the one before the Landscape movement, an excerpt from Coleridge:Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain’s browAdown enormous ravines slope amain- Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice,And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!Motionless torrents! silent cataracts!
Thank you for adding the excellent performance by Haitink LPO and Armstrong. It has a chilling quality which fits with the local sleet and snowfall today in the UK (Dec 2017)
a true masterpiece. i love RVW.
I first heard this Symphony as a Uni student in the late 1970's when one of my lecturers played it to a large group of us students 'in hall'. I was so blown away, I purchased a copy next day! The Symphony is as dark and sombre as Antarctica itself . I have always loved RvW music since hearing a part of another Symphony as the theme in the BBC series; "A Family at War"
This is the most brilliant evocation of cold I have ever heard.
Try the start of the Sibelius violin concerto. I particularly like the Vilde Frang recording, because she doesn't lay on the vibrato.
Oh no,the Sibelius concerto just doesn't convey the brutal unrelenting starkness of Antartica in the way RVF does.This is masterful writing,there is nowhere to hide,nature has no emotion just unforgiving and relentless pain.
that's a pretty meaningless statement without telling people how many evocations of cold you have heard and why this surpasses the rest. Please don't attempt it by the way. Just stop posting empty meaningless comments.
Warm thanks and greetings from Sweden!
A powerful version of this Symphony. Many thanks for uploading it to allow us to hear it.
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
"To suffer woe which hope thinks infinite
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night
To defy power which seems omnipotent
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent
This...is to be good, great and joyful, beautiful and free
This is alone life, joy empire, and victory."
Impresionante Interpretación,sublime, melancolica, triste y profundamente Espiritual, gracias por subirla.
Fine performance of this symphony. Perhaps not the most subtle or complex of his works, it has nevertheless a staggering theatrical effectiveness. You seem to feel a draught when the women's voices are howling, you cannot stop chuckling at the penguin music, and the mighty climax in the slow movement, when the organ bursts in, is one of the best shocks in music --- a real f*** me moment!
Never has struggle been more effectively expressed or its futility. Thank you for the upload.
Subtle and complex music is wonderful- such as Beethoven's.last string quartets. But there is also room for theatrical effectiveness. I once read the music of Tchaikovsky was as emotional as a scream from an open window on a dark night.
Thank you, Twoset of lingling for showing me this
Sinfonia Antarctica by Vaughn Williams. A hauntingly beautiful piece and strangely loaded for me.
For in the unpleasant house of my childhood was an orange armchair and on its back, was a seal skin with a single bullet hole. My stepfather had shot this beast in Antarctica in 1957, to feed the huskies on the expedition he was on. He was my persecutor and abuser so I have not got much time for him, which is a shame but that is history.
A bleak man, he went to a howling white desert to find the core of himself. He once showed a slide show of his exploits there. My god it is a terrible place! A terrible beauty. Apparently, the British Antarctic Survey requested a view of the slides for their records and them posted them off to Africa and they were never seen again.
How did he persecute and abuse you?
He was the seal.
@@anthonypetercoleman3575 He became the seal, or vice versa. Those we hurt and kill, even animals, get their revenge.
The year after your stepfather shot the seal, Vaughn Williams died. Just saying.
Good lord. Write a novel and stop being a victim!
The 3rd Movement is great. When I was a teenager I used it as soundtrack to Dungeons and Dragons when I sent the players to some magical plane of existence.
Keir Dullea says Kibrick made him listen to this music to get into the mood for the 2OO1 stargate sequence.
25:26 That sudden organ really got to me. It's amazing.
I saw it performed at the Royal Albert Hall a few years back, and the moment the RAH organ came in - physically shook the place - I'll never forget that moment.
Good ?
Brian Eynon Good
@@richardanderson8696 You're very lucky. It must have been magnificent.
Funny how people think the organ enters suddenly, because most miss the pedal notes it plays minutes earlier.
A majestic musical composition with a beautiful video to accompany it. I think not only of the great film epic that this music is associated with, but also of Vaughan-William's great friend, Gustav Holst. I sense Holst's influence in this work, and that feels most apparent. Thank-you so much for uploading this exquisite piece
One of greatest pieces of classical music ever. I have it on Vinyl by the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Adrian Boult conducting, track this down and buy it, possibly the best version.
My favourite RvW.
The most atmospheric & descriptive music I've ever heard & have loved it from first hearing it in school in the late fifties. The accompanying video is incredible ! How was it done ?
Symphony que desde niño la he escuchado, sigue estando Portentosa, exuberante, melancolica y Profundamente Espiritual, representa la lucha diaria de cada uno de nosotros y el terminar cada día y esperar el próximo, con nuevos bríos.
The organ @25:20 absolutely stunning! 🤘😎👍
Massive icebergs calving off!
@@nealhines4476 The moment is to signify the utter hopelessness of Scott's party on the Beardmore Glacier blocking their return to the relative safety of a base camp.
Wonderful, so different from what I expected. I want to watch the movie now!
Extraordinary! Nobody performs this!
RVW's finest symphony! In my opinion.
Das Bild sieht aus wie Tungusta und die Musik lässt mich angenehm gruseln .
To the best of my knowledge the only film score made into a full blown symphony (by one of the greatest composers who ever lived)..
Howard Shore took nearly two hours of his Lord of the Rings material and called it a symphony. It isn't very symphonic in my view.
Well, compared to Vaughan Williams, Howard Shore is a popcorn fart.
714Sluggo Compared to Howard Shore, Vaughan's work is just different. He did not illustrate a film.
Sinfonia Antartica IS music from a film. It's from "Scott of the Antarctic".
He did considerably more than Shore did with his "LotR Symphony", which is just 6 tracks from the CD tacked one after another.
Vaughan-Williams developed the music beyond what was in the film, restructured it, extended it. he turned it into a symphony worthy of carrying the title "symphony".
While I have to admit I enjoyed Shore's score for LotR, despite its numerous faults, the piece that was performed as a "symphony" never deserved that nomenclature.
Oh sorry. I did not know that :D
The music Stanley Kubrick used during filming of 2001: a Space Odissey... in order to inspire actors and crew!
But it's curious that the film's music didn't include RVW, but Ligeti or Xennakis, more "modern" than him (and perhaps better to explain that the characters do not understand anything that happens).
@@aguador67 There is no music by Xenakis in Kubrick's 2001: only Strauss, Ligeti and Khachaturian
Luis Fernando González Serra Interesting remark but remember there’s also Johan Strauss, Richard Strauss, Katchaturian... Not so far from VW
@@FleuveAlphee moo
All I remember is Richard Strauss' Zarathustra.
very underrated symphony
An astonishing psychological masterpiece. An intense inward journey. Thank you.
Absolutely beautiful
You hear how this inspired work by composers like, Goldsmith, Horner and others.
Wonderful music; thank you. Also, I assume some folks will not be pleased with this comment, yet I see as a dog's head, the rock/ice formatioin behind the ship in this picture.
I think it starts as the head of a monkey glove puppet I had as a child then turns into a pig which becomes a Hereford bull with sideburns & attitude before morphing into a rather nervous looking calf.
I think I also see what you've noted...dog? or polar bear? or other? we are fortunate to have minds that can look beyond the immediate fascia of things and think about what else might be there....
Cheers!
Well - thanks, guys! Now I can't see anything but the blasted dog. It even has floppy ears!
You need to wrap up warmly to listen to this music
That organ at 25:20 is majestic!
From 4.16 - 4.43 you can hear where John Williams got his Harry Potter ideas from'. including the colour of the celesta; and in the latter part you can hear John Adams's inspiration for the third movement of his Harmonielehre, particularly in the use of piano and wind in a high register.
The last mov is chilling and wonderful.
This is perfect for the HMS Endurance expedition.
Maravillosa,fantástica como la mismísima misteriosa Antártida.
thank you thank you thank you!
would not now be alive with out the sustenance of your collage/collaboration;
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Hello everyone.
Great news, just as a Christmas present!!!
LIVE!!! performance of Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia Antarctica" in POLAND in February 2024.
For all fans of Ralph Vaughan Williams music - simply concert of the year!!!
"To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite,/ To forgive wrongs darker than death or night,/ To defy power which seems omnipotent,/ ... / Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent:/ This ... is to be/ Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free,/ This is alone Life, Joy," These sentiments I can get onboard with, "Empire", not so much.
The music is grand, haunting, wild and frighteningly stark as Antarctica still is. With global temperatures rising, it may become a place to live for many more of us.
Unless it disappears or changes. Then no one can live there. Could people. Could the world repopulate with Antarctica? I hear there is one science community with children on Antarctica.
W-h-y should one colonialise Antarctica? This would make sense only from an imperialistic point of view
Sorry, it's closed to the Commoners...
"The visual effects of my journey through time and space were created well after I had finished the film. Stanley filmed me mostly in close-up reacting to something that I actually wasn’t seeing. *He created an old silent movie trick: he played some extraordinary music to put me in the mood. Specifically, a movement from Vaughan Williams’ Sinfonia Antartica.* If you’re interested, look it up and wait for a very mysterioso section of the piece. That’s what helped me react to something I wasn’t seeing. - Kier Dullea, when asked how he reacted to seeing the stargate in 2001: A Space Odyssey. How cool. This piece is beautiful.
I hadn't heard this story. I think Ralph might have been proud of that, had he been alive. I wonder if Stanley discovered the music watching the film Ralph originally composed it for, or was VW part of Stanley's musical diet. Good for you Stanley....and Keir.
What a brilliant post! Thankyou!
Do you know which part Kier was played of the sinfonia?
@@jpip1382 At 11:01
(I have no idea actually, lol)
wonderful, I might buy the CD.
I bought the CD...
Powerful.
Great Masterwork.-
A ghost ship , ,circling around a cold continent, as in Wagner's composition, they die while searching for a way to other seas and they cannot reach purgatory.It 's so tragic work.
Apparently when George Lucas and John Williams first discussed the musical score for Star Wars, their influences were British composers: Holst, Vaughan-Williams, and Walton. (Strangely, not Wagner or Stravinsky.) Perhaps that's why the later VW symphonies all remind me of Star Wars!
Possibly, though I still hear a lot of Prokofiev in the Star Wars scores.
there are huge parallels to a chord from Siegmund von Hauseggers Nature Symphony. And Hausegger is a Wagnerian...
Our local symphony just performed this and I thought that John William's music had similar qualities to this piece. Never heard of this before but loved it!
John Williams and specially Star Wars music has a lot of influence of Stravinsky. An example: watch?v=1XSGoyslE-A
Ravel Daphnis et Chloe is the better example Near the The final 8 minutes Star Wars Indiana Jones Bartok The Miraculous Mandarin
Sinfonia é algo surreal, é um novo mundo.
When Sibelius meets John Williams in a fridge.
perfect!
You mean IN a fridge. Or better still, in a freezer...
@@lorddaver5729 Thanks. And if you don't like tanks.
This will be the funniest thing I read this month
There are some very bleak, hopeless-sounding moments in this and his related score, "Scott of the Antarctic" that would sound great in a movie adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's horror novella "At the Mountains of Madness", which also happens to take place in Antarctica, like when RVM uses the organ, wind machine and wordless vocals.
I’ve been listening to this whilst reading “At the Mountains of Madness” and this really works
For a true story, try Admiral Richard Byrd's story, experienced and written in the 1930s in a book called Alone: He was manning a science and weather station by himself deep in Antarctica in the 6 month period of total darkness. He had a very small cabin and was essentially marooned until the spring. Byrd went there to think, to have time to read good books and listen to good music. Just For The Experience Itself. All well and good, except his stove, the sole source of heat, began to malfunction and give off carbon monoxide, and he was unable to fix it. And the fumes were driving him slowly insane...
The Elder Sign podcast belatedly agrees with you!
@@colleencupido5125 Werner Herzog also sees derangement of other species happening there:
th-cam.com/video/mnTU_hJoByA/w-d-xo.html
@@humblescribe8522 As does Werner Herzog, who also sees derangement of other species:
th-cam.com/video/mnTU_hJoByA/w-d-xo.html
Beyond the specific topic of music derived from a film on one British explorer to the Antarctic, I'd rather listen to this symphony as a cultural work on all polar expeditions, including the quest for a northwest passage in the Arctic. No people have endeavored this "conquest" of extreme polar environments more than the British and the Scandinavians, with numerous casualties along the way. This music of RVW is kindred to Gosta Nystroem's Arctic Symphony. Maybe not his most complex symphony, as some have commented, but his most evocative of a piece of history that spans back to Martin Frobisher.
The best interpretation I know.
For me, the message of this symphony is in the inscription to the first movement:
"To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite,/ To forgive wrongs darker than death or night,/ To defy power which seems omnipotent,/ ... / Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent"
MARAVILLOSA
" Titanic " ( this could have been the music for that movie ) .. :)
I like RVW a lot.
Stanley Kubrick played this "while filming Keir Dullea in close-up as he reacted to his wild ride through the Star Gate."
Also for screening "2001: A Space Odyssey" dailies "for the lunar sequences and Star Gate special effects, with stunning results."--Michael Benson, SPACE ODYSSEY: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece.
Remarkable, once one discovers this RVW masterpiece, to realize how many 20th Century film composers this work has influenced. (edit - Sorry, ps -- Thanks for this interesting bit of info, re, Kubrick & 2001)
Reminds me of the Enterprise flying through endless V'ger clouds in The Motion Picture.
Absolutely - this could easily be dropped into the V'Ger Flyover piece of the soundtrack. Can hear so many influences in other Jerry Goldsmith scores from this, astonished
Oh dear.
Nothing like this in all of western symphonic music -- have known this piece since 1964
Reminds me of Scriabin's Mysterium.
Genius.
This was one of the first music works that I felt an immediate compelling connection with, - or rather, initially the original Scott of the Antarctic film music - when it was first broadcast on the radio sometime in the 1950s, while I was still in my teens. I see that the symphony itself had its first performance in 1963.
The Antartica takes me to a very familiar place within, which is both forbidding and at the same time ennobling, and I love this particular performance's balance between shaping the music to bring out the landscape features on the one hand while maintaining a good sense of musical flow and development - of course also the flow and development of the unspoken narrative within the landscape. I've little doubt that in many ways this work (together with Sibelius' Tapiola) has been a major inspiring factor in my own (much more recent) composing work, and helped predispose me towards portraying nature and wilderness in certain works - my 'biggie' in terms of scale and dramatic turbulence being my Symphony 6 (K2 - A Song of Striving and Adventure) - th-cam.com/play/PL2QPtPIi_uE4y-O9_FzPW4u6aKPE6DiEk.html.
The first performance of the Sinfonia Antartica was given on Jan. 14, 1953, by the Halle Orchestra, directed by Sir John Barbirolli.
Colder and yet not as thrilling and affirming as A Sea Symphony, of which my recording was by the same orchestra in 1955. Philip
I had Holst on and didn't notice YT was now playing RVW. Still 10 minutes I thought it was Holst. It's quite different from The Lark etc.
RVW composed four nature symphonies: salt water (A Sea Symphony), the city (A London Symphony), the country (Pastoral Symphony) and ice (Sinfonia Antartica). I assume he left imagining outer space in sound to his close friend Gustav Holst's The Planets.
5 billion hits on Gangam style and 2 thousand on RW... kinda says something about how this internet thing has improved our quality of life..
all it says is that people like what they like. that's it.
People can't 'like' what they aren't exposed to. How many people who 'liked' Gangnam Style would have the first clue about this piece, any other Vaughan Williams music, or any other classical, for that matter? It's not on tv or other media they use, so how do they know? We don't teach music appreciation in school anymore, except to a select few students.
Elise Curran I'd make the fast food vs healthy food analogy but you come off as one that knows it already. My point which I'll happily repeat is simple. Everyone has the right to like what they like. Be it that silly Psy song or this classic from the one the masters of music
Feel free to get mad at that, it aint that serious to me.
No one is mad here, are they? I am a teacher and musician, and I can tell you that my science students, when asked, have not heard of these composers and know almost nothing about classical music at all. No one is saying people don't have the right to like different things, but you seem to be operating under a false premise, that people *have* heard both types and prefer the inferior one. I am saying that they have not even heard the superior one, so how can they 'like' it?
Elise Curran oh gotcha. Your thing is awareness not preference. Apologies, misunderstood because we are in agreement on that front.
But don't let the view count bug you too much. It's unfortunately their loss, but as long as someday they hear it then it's fine with me
Faszinierend. Wenn wir auf Werbung nicht reagieren, lernt die KI dass Werbung nichts bringt.
Love 💘
34:52 reminds me of Shostakovich tenth symphony.
I feel cold just listening to it. Try it the next time your air conditioner breaks down in July.
Saves electricity, as well!
9:24 SCOTT OF THE SAHARA!!!! ;)
What is this first picture? *water intensifies*? There are probably a million beautiful pictures of the antarctic
We never hear any of RVW's works here in Chicago. In fact, I can't think of any American orchestras that programs any of is works. Too busy playing Mozart over and over and over again.
There are a couple of university performances of the first symphony, the great choral work known as The Sea Symphony, perhaps because VW chose poems by the wonderful American poet Walt Whitman.
E Mack, I applaud your remark. I am sick of Mozart.
I live in a rather small city but with a good orchestra (in Europe) and in 10 years of going to concerts i've only listened to the Tallis Fantasia once, and nothing more by Vaughan Williams.
It's a shame that many orchestras stick only to the big names, there are so many seldom-played great composers, specially from the 20th century.
Amen. Nielsen, Scriabin, Ives...
Also sick-to-death of Mozart. Twinggy twanggy twinggy tangg-a diddly doo, dee diddly diddly SNOOZE FESTIVAL OF BOREDOM!
I saw some huge Mozart religious work performed in Carnegie Hall once. Worst use of that stage ever, I say!
My marching band is playing this
My ice cream truck is playing this
I'm getting some "The Planets" vibes from this piece.
I agreee! Loving it. Holst has undeniable influence in RVW's works. His 5th also!
While this in itself doesn't necessarily explain them influencing each other, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst were longtime friends.
Speaking of Holst The Planets... Mars, the bringer of War in particular; Doesn't that sound like Darth Vader's theme?
@@colleencupido5125 There are a few pieces that got inspired by holst..
@@ThunderWorkStudioAMGE Thanks for answering! You are right. What about that ultra noble( and very English) theme in Jupiter and Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, that used to be used at Graduation ceremonies? Can you think of something I missed?
Jack Nieszche must have had this moment (3.06) in mind when he write the title music for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Even though the wordless soprano has become one of the cliches of spook movies, in this context it still chills.
Haitink's symphonic objectivity is like a stress test for British parochialism. RVW passes thankfully.
Haitink brought his accustomed insight and inspiration to this performance of this epic. Remarkably good sound for 1985. Was this on Philips maybe?
6:16 this section can be heard in the soundtrack for James Burke's series "Connections"
Kubrick use this music on the shoot of the psychedelic scene of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Am I imagining or is that small theme at 13:59 very similar to the theme in The Trouble With Harry?
Quite right
Vaughan-Williams does for the Antarctic what Strauss did for the Alps.
i also hear Hungarian music in here.....Bartok would be pleased, I think; except that he had died a few years earlier.
I want to visit Antarctica.
.... and echoes of Britten's Peter Grimes...wow...