Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 6 in E Minor
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- Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 6 in E Minor (1947)
Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Bernard Haitink
Movement One: Allegro - 0:00
Movement Two: Moderato - 7:36
Movement Three: Scherzo. Allegro vivace - 16:36
Movement Four: Epilogue. Moderato - 22:51
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Masterpiece of a symphony. Stirring, unnerving, hair-raisingly beautiful... with a sax solo. This piece has it all. It is the opposite of a lot of RVW's work but at the same time it is the same, just corrupted. The 3rd and 5th are straight out of a fairy tale while this one, as well as 4 and 7, are something else. Remarkable composer.
Great to hear a saxophone in a symphony.
This tenorsolo is the worst saxsolo in history, sorry
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Utterly terrifying, beautiful & ridiculous by turn. A masterpiece.
Thanks for the introduction to this wonderful symphony!
Stunning. Haitink was a great conductor of RVW.
At 5min 48secs: part of the Allegro, this section was used for the Granada ITV Series 'A Family At War' which was broadcast in the UK from 1970 to 1972. It's a wonderful piece of music and reminds me of childhood and living with my Grandparents.
Yeah that string melody at that point, sounds like something out of a film score (proto James Horner a bit
@@TheJMHohn Not really surprising considering that RVW was an important composer of film music. The Sinfonia Antartica is almost entirely adapted from his score for the film "Scott of the Antarctic" and there are a few suites of his lesser known film music.
I could not remember the exact title of the series, thank you. It was screened in NZ at about that time too, and that theme was played everywhere - in shopping malls, supermarkets, and I believe it actually topped the pop charts for a short time.
Did this influence John Williams??
The horror of war is described in this symphony.
yes , but not only ...4th movement is about life's brevity (Shakespeare : "We are such stuff such as dreams are made on")
cant find war in the score - cant hear war in the tones - must be your personal interpretation
@@michaelfischer5800 1:52 is literally a military march, interspersed with turbulent war calls and remembrances of the motherland. And the violent scherzo also quite literally melts into what looks like the depiction of a devastated war field. Sounds pretty much like war to me too.
@@dionbaillargeon4899 you may be quite right; but what I meant: you cant find war in the score neither in the tones - its really a matter of interpretation, of YOUR interpretation, which might totally agree with the composers intention. But it stays a very personal interpretation. I made the experiment to gave this symphony and Khachaturjans 2nd to my son. One without comment and the other with: listen, thats written in war... And it made a big difference. Without my given interpretation he felt free for his own (and each generation has its own - unfortunately) and enjoyed it in his way. Sure he felt power, force and desparation and what ever - but not war. Cause he doesn`t know war, why should he hear war? He hears just music as absolute music. There is war only in our mind. - In the other case he refused the music just because of my given constriction...
I've always thought of this brooding, tumultuous, work by Vaughan Williams as being a direct sequel to his 4th symphony. I couldn't get enough of gloom of the 4th symphony and am so glad Vaughan Williams followed it up with the 6th symphony. I accept Vaughan Williams' statement that his 6th symphony was a just piece of music & that it had nothing to do with WWII. ''Music means itself." is a great quote by him. Perhaps Vaughan Williams was merely demonstrating that he was capable of writing ominous music. Both his 4th & 6th symphonies seem like film scores to Hammer' or Amicus' horror films.
Amazing upload!!
rlly got that Stravinsky to it.
26:15-26:54 might just be the most haunting bit of modern classical music I have listened to-like the movement prior is like wandering through a dark hedge maze, not sure where one is going, until you reach a clearing. But instead of a verdant paradise, its a bleak barren open space of earth, with a dusky grey sky hanging above.
It’s a great moment, as though the bomb has dropped and one is crawling through the rubble.
Needed headphones 🎧
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I admired Bernard Haitink but this confirms my view that his Vaughan Williams was never more than OK at best. There are several better performances of the Sixth, notably Andrew Davis's recording with the BBC SO which freezes my blood and makes me want to check that the windows and doors are locked.
BBC Record Review chose his complete set as the best. Chacun....😎
This symphony is DIFFICULT. The whole thing, for every section of the orchestra I imagine. I was in an orchestra where we played it. I was 14 years old then. Seriously, it's like movie music! I was in the Violin II section and even that part was way hard. It played a part in my coming to completely embrace 20th century music...the good stuff, that is, not the avant-garde trash. Harmonically, he was nowhere near Stravinsky or even Bartok, he kept it simple most of the time. I'll always cherish the fact that I had an opportunity to play it.
Enlighten us Maestro who is the avant-garde trash you infer to?!
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Love Vaughan Williams!
I hate this lackluster recording, though. Previn isn’t doing much more than sight reading and is one of the notoriously poor releases of this symphony. Too bad, because it’s lovely seeing the score.
It is Haitink and not Previn . I agree, this is a terrible boring performance. I normally like Haitink. His recordings of the Beethoven and Brahms piano concertos with Arrau are among my favorites. Also his Mahler from the sixties. But certainly not his Vaughan Williams.