Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/18/89)
Really-From: David Shapiro <david@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU> In article <8909141922.AA05969@GAFFA.MIT.EDU> IED writes: [ ... ] >Kate has >also demonstrated a sophisticated awareness of the revivication of >these scales as the bases of melody in the works of Vaughn Williams [ ... ] >_IV_ is extremely similar to Vaughn Williams's solo-violin part in >_The_Lark_Ascending_; both are modally-based melodies. Ooh, synchronicity! I just got my first Vaughn Williams (Thomas Tallis and Greensleeves). The only other V. W. I've ever heard is the English Folk Song Suite (for which I am still looking for a good CD version). Can anyone recommend, from a LoveHound's point-of-view, other Vaughn Williams pieces? Any specific recordings or artists to keep an eye open for (especially on CD)? Thanks bunches!
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/18/89)
Really-From: tynor%prism@gatech.edu (Steve Tynor) In article <1989Sep18.013007.14002@paris.ics.uci.edu> Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes: >Really-From: David Shapiro <david@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU> ... >Ooh, synchronicity! I just got my first Vaughn Williams (Thomas >Tallis and Greensleeves). The only other V. W. I've ever heard >is the English Folk Song Suite (for which I am still looking for >a good CD version). > >Can anyone recommend, from a LoveHound's point-of-view, other Vaughn >Williams pieces? Any specific recordings or artists to keep an eye >open for (especially on CD)? > >Thanks bunches! Definitely check out "The Lark Ascending". It's one of my favorite violin concerti. The violin solo evokes nature, peace, serenity, and 'birdness'(?) like no other piece of music I've ever heard. (My recording (CD) is by Marriner and the Academy of St. Martins in the Fields). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= WITH disclaimer; USE disclaimer; Steve Tynor Georgia Tech Research Institute Artificial Intelligence Branch tynor@prism.gatech.edu
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/19/89)
Really-From: claris!wombat@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Scott Lindsey) Ooh, synchronicity! I just got my first Vaughn Williams (Thomas Tallis and Greensleeves). The only other V. W. I've ever heard is the English Folk Song Suite (for which I am still looking for a good CD version). Can anyone recommend, from a LoveHound's point-of-view, other Vaughn Williams pieces? Any specific recordings or artists to keep an eye open for (especially on CD)? As yet, I've only found one CD with the Folk Song Suite on it: British Music for Concert Band, The Central Band of the Royal Air Force, Eric Banks, conductor; EMI CDC 7 49608 2. It also has music by Holst and Grainger. I'm fairly satisfied with it, but not as impressed (certainly not with the Holst pieces) as with Fennell and the Cleveland Winds' treatment of Holst's Suites on Telarc. If you like these composers' arrangements of traditional English folk tunes, there's another CD with works by Gustav Holst, Vaughan Williams, Delius, & Warlock; EMI CDC 7 47812 2, by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta & Symphony Orchestra with Norman Del Mar, conductor.