Behold.....The Sea!

But don't relax too much.....I'm not finished with digging up Twentieth Century masterpieces that might bring pleasure or curl your ears!

Another Vaughan Williams favourite! Buy a recording of the "Sea Symphony"(the composer's first symphony), put it on your MP3 player, find a large body of water and let the music mystify you. Walt Whitman was correct when he wrote of the sea: "timeless, the fibre and the breath".

Something to calm the nerves

If my previous three posts have curled your ears and toes, perhaps some Vaughan Williams will calm you down. This is a personal favourite of mine......very nostalgic and quite glorious!

Relax and enjoy!

Serenade to Music

One of the truly most beautiful pieces ever written. In the original version, it is sung by sixteen soloists with orchestra as opposed to just orchestra alone. Original versions are in this case much more prefered!

Vaughan-William's "Riders to the Sea"

Vaughan-Williams most successful opera. I have always considered his earlier opera "Hugh the Drover" to be just as excellent! This is an excellent example of an opera that is successful and takes only 45 minutes to perform, much like Bartok's masterpiece!

ENJOY!

Vaughan Williams at Sea

My favorite Symphony written by an English composer. This clip is taken from the last movement of Vaughan Williams' "Sea Syymphony". At the time signature 5:45 on this clip, starts one of the most noble passages he ever wrote!

I hope it enthralls you as much as it does to me!