When I first started school in the mid ‘50’s we would have a school assembly every morning. Classical music would be played via a record player and invariably it always seemed to me to be this VW suite. I guess this suite has been part of my life now in excess of 60 years.

@MrDaiseymay

6 жыл бұрын

Nice memory recall Dave. I started school in 1946, and can remember school's Radio music sessions, and sometimes Classical music on a Record player, up until the mid 50's, but can't recall which.

My British mother would play this, and other works by Vaughn Williams, when we were little kids, I grew up listening to this piece.

This is true and real English music from the greatest English classical composer. Beautiful.

I played flute in junior high school. One of my all time favorite pieces!

@chrisbaker2903

2 жыл бұрын

French Horn here. 9th grade played with a concert band.

@MrNanomonkey

2 жыл бұрын

I remember playing this on clarinet at high school, I will never forget it!

Aughghghg this is my favorite piece and I love it! It's also a fantastic way to show non-musicians the beauty and depth of classical music!

In traumatic times a gorgeous recording and collection of images.....Thank you !

This has to be one of the best interpretations I have heard.

@chrisbaker2903

2 жыл бұрын

It's hard to beat Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops.

@alger3041

2 жыл бұрын

Jorge, for me it IS the best.

A superb rendition, thank you, from England

I had to give up my 10 yr conducting career/dream recently. Had I kept going, I had this piece (Jacob's transcription, and the original Wind Band piece) as dream pieces to conduct.

Beautiful! This Boston born Brit-American i.e. "Anglophile" and pianist/composer of an American folk opera loves the works of Ralph Vaughn Williams! Gets my English blood going! Remember the great conductor Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops! Cheers~ ♥🎹🎵🎼💙

It’s April 2020 and I’m still loving this!!!

@swinger9374

Жыл бұрын

It's January 2023 and I'm still loving this!!!

@yoshitoshi98

Жыл бұрын

Almost August 2023 and I heard this in 1970

The English countryside set to music. Thank you.

This music makes me long for an England that has very largely gone.

@davecarter4015

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Thornley couldn’t agree with you more!!!

@i.b.thecomposer4480

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Thornley? What England are you missing???

@davecarter4015

5 жыл бұрын

I miss the way things were in the 1950’s when I was a young lad. The world, not only England just seemed much nicer

@internetperiodista

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Thornley, The Heroic England from the King George VI during World War II?

@l.s.m.5168

5 жыл бұрын

@ewd76 willy the conqueror

There are many recordings on You tube of this very popular Suite. This is among the best in my humble opinion.

@alger3041

6 жыл бұрын

Possibly even the very best. He treats the music with complete respect, shapes everything carefully, and I would say that could well perhaps be even better than Boult or some such conductor.

@rebekahhinchliffe1404

5 жыл бұрын

Philip Croft- and defo the best orchestral part which is nice to hear as a lot of them are actually concert band collectives or wind bands

@MrDaiseymay

4 жыл бұрын

@@alger3041 a close run thing, but so nice to be able to compare. An audible treat.

@alger3041

4 жыл бұрын

Along the same vein, try the Irish Suite by Leroy Anderson, also with the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler. I guarantee that you will get much of the same pleasure out of it.

This masterpiece is invincible and surpasses the times . From chaotic and invincible Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun .

I first heard this piece of music about 40 years ago when I purchased one of my first CDs that was Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. It has remained one of my favorites for all these years. Talk about Serendipity, I would never have purchased a CD based on Vaughn Williams, because I'd never heard of him. I'm so very glad my parents loved classical style music. "Classical" being to them, and to me by upbringing, anything requiring an orchestra or full band. I looked him up recently and found to my amusement that he was good friends with another one of my favorite composers, Gustav Holst. I became familiar with his Suite for Military Band #2 when the concert band I was part of in Ventura, CA played it while I was in the 9th grade, having been asked to audition by my junior high music instructor Mr. Robert Barnum.

This was the theme music for Anglia Television’s ‘Farming Diary’ in the 1970’s & 80’s.

I honestly think this might be the best recording of this suite out there, certainly the best on YT. Only thing I can't understand is how it took me seven years to find!

Take a narrowboat cruise through the quieter areas of English countryside. You will find what you're looking for.

@MrDaiseymay

4 жыл бұрын

TRUE.YOU WILL SEE SIGHTS UNKNOWN BY ROAD, AND EVEN RAIL.

@paulputnam8211

4 жыл бұрын

I live on a narrowboat & in cruising the canals I see, I think, the England that VW tried to capture here.

Excellent work, Boston Pops. 👍 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

Gorgeous military march, one can dance 💃on!

Superb version, thank you for sharing it :)

@trevorglasper2084

3 жыл бұрын

oh to go back to the post war forties and fifties as a child dear old Britain

Wonderful music by Ralph Vaughan Williams; played by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. While Fiedler programmed and recorded mostly pops music/light classics, he was also capable of being a fine conductor all-around. Fiedler made a fine recording of Dvorak's 9th.

La mejor versión que he escuchado. Yo tengo el acetato. Gracias por subir el vídeo 🎉

Klasse Musik,Danke

Happy birthday to Ralph Vaughan Williams his birth verse is Hosea 10:12 rest in peace ✌️ Blessings and hugs 🤗💞😂💘😊🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏!

HIGH GERMANY! YES! What a tune!

As a life-long listener of classical music, there is something special about English music that I just love so much compared to German and Austrian ones.

@pikachuchujelly7628

4 ай бұрын

Agreed. Unlike other countries, England wasn't plagued by the modernist atonal craze of the early 20th century, so we got plenty of amazing music from Vaughan Williams, Holst, Grainger, Gordon Jacob, and William Walton.

#SEMPER FIDELIS #QUA PATET ORBIS #JE MAINTAN DRAI ! ♫♪ great ♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @/bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous banding! Compliments! #SEMPER FI #QPO #JMD🎵🎼🎼🎶🎵🥁🎺👌👌🙏🙏🎺 Robert Schumann Quote : Composing something real unique is writing down a melody/set of notes that no one else ever had done before.... ♫♪

To Debbie Paskin yes I’m still around lol, still loving this music by RVW and dreaming of days gone by. Hope you’re ok. Take care

Vaughan-Williams does Brexit! Go for it V-W!!!

@niallmark6136

3 жыл бұрын

Why politicise art? Art is universal.

Nice

I believe this was a Decca Phase 4 recording. It is excellent!

@adam28xx

5 ай бұрын

It does actually say that in the first sentence under the video!

@jamescrawford9883

5 ай бұрын

@@adam28xx thank you, I noticed afterwards. I am 82 and a bit slow, these days.

Could you also upload the Bach / Lucien Cailliet : Little Fugue BWV 578 from those Fiedler '70s recordings?

Beautiful music ... The romance of a green and pleasant land the longing to return to a simpler time... but was it a better time? maybe it was, smaller communities where everyone knew everyone’s business. Maybe that was conducive to better law and order? But for with the destruction of,wildlife and decimation of fields hedgerows of wildflowers and the direct impact on the honey bee.... is this really progress?

@arunbhoomkar8700

2 жыл бұрын

Ricketts scarlet fever polio £ 2 6S. 9d a month to live on . Chimney sweeps etc.

@buffplums

2 жыл бұрын

@@arunbhoomkar8700 yeah great bring em on lol… the good old days … made you stronger though haha 😂

1:08

This is a phenomenal performance, but I really prefer the military band arrangement to the symphonic arrangement.

8:45

Here for a music lesson in isolation

Righty oh....then