Brass Band Series. Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. In partnership with Oxford University Press and authorized by the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust, this major new initiative brings the incredible catalog of Ralph Vaughan Williams to the wind band community, with scholarly transcriptions by leaders in wind band composition. As the name suggests, all titles in the Brass Band Series are scored for br…

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Boldly reimagined and completed by Martin Yates, The Future, a substantial non finito draft of a major choral setting of words by Matthew Arnold, dates from 1908, immediately after Toward the Unknown Region, and in the crucial year of Vaughan Williams’s three-month tutelage with Ravel in Paris. Urgent ecological concerns – strikingly relevant today no less than in the V…

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Le Concerto pour Tuba a été écrite en 1953/4 en réponse à une invitation à composer une oeuvre pour le jubilé d'or de l'Orchestre symphonique de Londres. Vaughan Williams était alors en est quatre-vingt-seconde année - un intérêt sur les sonorités instrumentales inhabituels était une caractéristique de sa musique dans la dernière partie de sa vie. Il avait utilisé des s…

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. This pastoral poem, written by William Barnes, has been set to music by Vaughan Williams to make a rich, pleasing and thoughtful Dorset Folk song. Arranged for SSA with Piano Accompaniment./ Répertoire / Choeur de Femmes (SSA) et Piano

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Of all his early chamber works, the 'Nocturne' is most clearly by the mature Vaughan Williams, almost anticipating the influence of Ravel which followed his lessons from the French composer in 1908. In the veiled beauty of its highly chromatic harmonies we hear already the tone-poet of the slow movement of 'A London Symphony', while in the fleet-footed 'Scherzo' there i…

2 Vl, 2 Va and Vc. Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Ralph Vaughan Williams's Phantasy Quintet for two Violins, two Violas and Cello. Score and Parts./ Répertoire / Quintette à Cordes (2 Violons, 2 Altos et Violonce

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. A heartfelt and subtly beautiful tribute to the dead of the First World War, Vaughan Williams' Third Symphony is amongst his most powerful works. Misunderstood at its premiere in 1922, the haunting 35-minute elegy is almost entirely quiet and contemplative, though beneath its tranquillity lies a deep sadness. In the second movement a lone trumpet calls over a bleak and …

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Quintet in D is in four movements: Allegro moderato - Allegretto Intermezzo - Andantino , and - Allegro molto finale . If it only fitfully contains elements of the mature Vaughan Williams, it is a delightful work in its own right, with playful touches and more than a ration of charm. The writing for piano is very accomplished and shatters the myth, much propagated by th…