Roll On

Ha, the day i get up early to do a visit to Tunbridge Wells and Strood, it is a dull rain soaked day. I should have done it yesterday since at least it was dry.

Roll on next Friday when i will have some greenbacks in my picket. Since my cousin wants thirty quid from me still , since i normally give him sixty a month to help with council tax , TV licence , and broadband, i will not be able to do till at least next Friday. Just hope he will understand that.

RVW - Dona Nobis Pacem

As cmcmck posted a piece of RVW i have not heard of before, here is another discovery of mine. This beautiful cantata is awesome.

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Dona nobis pacem
A Cantata for Soprano and Baritone Soli, Chorus and Orchestra.

Christina Pier, soprano
Matthew Brook, baritone
The Bach Choir
Winchester Cathedral Choristers
Winchester College Quiristers
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
David Hill

Enjoy.

Crap Day

Well, what a crap day i have had today. Weather atrocious and i got soaked in the damn pour down. All my clothes were damp and squishy!

I knew i should have done these visits the other day - when it was dry!! Oh well, at least they are done.

Looking forward to tomorrow being another day off doing nowt.

Need some more RVW to calm me down,

Serenade

Need some music to chill down to , so what better than Ralph =


Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music

Vaughan Williams composed the Serenade to Music in 1938 as a tribute
to Sir Henry Wood on his golden jubilee as a conductor. The original version, a setting of the famous line from The Merchant of Venice beginning 'How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank', is for
16 solo voices, each part being written for a famous English singer of the day. The first soloists' initials appear against their parts
in the score, e.g. I.B. for Isobel Baillie, E.T. for Eva Turner, H.N. for Heddle Nash and R.H. for Roy Henderson. Wood evidently feared that the music would be lost when its creators retired or died (and who could
afford 16 soloists very often)? So he asked Vaughan Williams to turn it into orchestral piece. This was completed by the end of 1938 and first performed by Wood and the London Symphony Orchestra at Queen's Hall
on 10 February 1940. If it can only be regarded as a kind of emergency substitute for the real thing, the version heard here is nevertheless an effective arrangement.
)From booklet notes)

Northern Sinfonia of England
Bradley Creswick, violin
Richard Hickox, conductor