Vaughan Williams Today 3/4

This month, Donald Macleod takes a fresh look at one of Britain’s most popular composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, as part of Radio 3’s ‘Vaughan Williams Today’ season – marking the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
Alongside programmes which delve into Vaughan Williams’ life story and music in fascinating depth, over the course of four weeks and twenty programmes, Donald will also be talking to some of the leading authorities on Vaughan Williams to share and explore share new perspectives on a variety of overlooked and less well known aspects his life and work, forming a comprehensive and absorbing portrait of a composer whose body of work has had such an enduring imprint on British cultural life.

In the third week of this landmark series, Donald focuses on the years 1931-1947, a dramatic period in not just Vaughan Williams’ life, but in the wider world too, encompassing the second World War. Vaughan Williams was 67 when Britain and France declared war on the Reich, so too old for active service, but he threw himself into contributing wherever he could to the war effort. Musically, this was another period when the composer suffered from a crisis of failing inspiration and creative drought as the political turmoil deepened around him, but it would also give rise to some of his finest music, including three of his best regarded Symphonies – numbers 4, 5 and 6.

Music Featured:

Into the Woods my Master Went
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Piano Concerto in C major – I. Toccata; II. Romanza
Symphony no. 4 in F minor – III. Scherzo; IV. Finale con epilogo fugato
The Running Set
5 Tudor Portraits – V. Jolly Rutterkin
Two Hymn-Tune Preludes
Festival Te Deum in F
Riders to the sea – Act I: “…and may he have mercy on my soul”
Serenade to Music (Orchestral Version)
Epithalamion – The Lover’s Song
Epithamalion – Song of the Winged Love
Bushes and Briars
Symphony no. 5 in D major – IV. Passacaglia
Dona Nobis Pacem – I. Agnus Dei, II. Beat! Beat! Drums!, III. Reconciliation
Coastal Command Suite – Finale
5 variants of Dives and Lazarus
49th Parallel – The Invaders
Partita for Double String Orchestra – IV. Fantasia
Concerto for Oboe and Strings in A minor – III. Finale
Symphony No 3, ‘Pastoral Symphony’ (excerpt)
Song of Thanksgiving (excerpt)
Symphony No.6 in E minor – II. Moderato; III. Scherzo
Symphony no. 2 “A London Symphony” – IV. Andante con moto (excerpt)
Symphony no. 7 “Sinfonia Antartica” – V. Epilogue (excerpt)
Symphony no.1 “A Sea Symphony” – I. A Song for all Sea, all Ships (excerpt)
Symphony no 9 in E minor – IV. Andante tranquillo – poco animato (excerpt)
Symphony no.5 in D major – III. Romanza (excerpt)
Symphony no.5 in D major – I. Preludio
Symphony no 6 in E minor – III. Scherzo (excerpt)
Symphony no. 4 in F minor – I. Allegro (excerpt)
Symphony no.1 ‘A Sea Symphony’ – I. A Song for all Sea, all Ships (excerpt)
Symphony no. 6 in E minor- IV. Epilogue
Symphony no. 8 in D minor – IV. Toccata

Presented by Donald Macleod
Producer Sam Phillips

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CAS Classic Album Pub Quiz on Zoom

Join Classic Album Sundays founder Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy on Wednesday 8th June at 8pm BST for our Classic Album Pub Quiz hosted on zoom. Grab a drink (BYOB), test your musical knowledge and have a laugh. To attend, subscribe as a Punter for £5.

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CAS Album of the Month Club: Miles Davis ’Sketches of Spain’

June’s Album Club on Wednesday 29th June 8pm BST will feature Miles Davis Sketches of Spain. Sketches of Spain is the most luxuriant and stridently romantic recording Davis ever made. To listen to it in the 21st century is still a spine-tingling experience, as one encounters a multitude of timbres, tonalities, and harmonic structures seldom found in the music called jazz.

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Chloe Parker Episode 232: Kevin Morby

“This Is a Photograph”

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Kevin Morby is a singer and songwriter based in Kansas City. He’s put out seven albums since 2013, including his most recent one, This is a Photograph which just came out on May 13th, 2022. For this episode, I talked to Kevin about the title track from This is a Photograph. It’s a story about his family, the pandemic, and memories of times that have happened — and times that haven’t happened yet.

You can buy or stream “This Is A Photograph” here.

Illustration by Carlos Lerma.

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Silver Jews – “We Could Be Looking for the Same Thing”
Sam Cohen
Nathaniel Rateliff
Cochemea Gastelum
Alecia Chakour
Nick Kinsey
Stax Academy

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Lucy Mao 5 Popular Songs That Are Actually Covers

There are times when a cover outshines the initial version of a song, with a later rendition becoming so popular that people treat it as the original. AllMusic explores the stories behind five famous cover songs, chronicling their journeys from a first recording to a cover hit.

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Julianne Escobedo Shepherd Work Hard, Play Hard: How Rosalía Makes Her Music

“Bro, I’m the first to the studio and the last to leave,” says the Spanish singer, songwriter, and producer.

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Alex Ross A Pascal Bentoiu moment

Dozens of attempts have been made at setting Hamlet to music; few have been deemed successful. One that deserves a second look is a 1974 adaptation by the Romanian composer Pascal Bentoiu. I found myself mesmerized by his approach, though I umderstood not a word. The second act can also be found on YouTube, courtesy of Thorsten Gubatz.

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