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Symphony No. 6 (Vaughan Williams)

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295:, meaning without any expression. This makes the movement extremely difficult to play, and the audience must use great concentration to keep from losing track of the composer's train of thought. Vaughan Williams himself, in his aforementioned programme note, speaks of "drifting" and "whiffs of theme" in characterising the music. This is the movement that sparked so many to see the work as a whole as being a vision of a post-nuclear world. Writers have used such words as "dead", "barren", and "ruins" to describe it. Curiously enough, both the second and fourth movements have the same tempo marking but the feel is decidedly slower here. 132: 448:. Both used the original version of the third movement. The composer revised that movement in 1950; Boult immediately recorded it for HMV and that new version was included in the subsequent LP releases. Boult also made a new recording of the symphony in late 1953 for Decca in the presence of the composer, who thanked the musicians at the end of those sessions; this speech was taped and included on disc releases as an appendix to the symphony. Altogether there have been 26 recordings: 184: 1439: 1464: 228: 251:
structure, but the overall feel is hardly one of amusement; the high spirits are decidedly raucous and sardonic. Although the rhythmic style is less disjointed than in the first movement (the listener has little trouble following the meter here), the harmony (heavily dominated by tritones, or lowered
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that recurs through most of the movement, beginning in the second measure. At one point that figure goes away for a while, and the effect of its eventual return is an almost palpable sense of dread. After an enormous battering climax fuelled by that figure (including the single loudest point in the
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and immediately recorded it, declaring that "this is music that will take its place with the greatest creations of the masters." However, Vaughan Williams, very nervous about this symphony, threatened several times to tear up the draft. At the same time, his programme note for the first performance
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with its carefully organised contrasting themes and key centres, though this may not be apparent on first hearing. Indeed, the most striking point of contrast may be the reappearance near the end of the movement of one of the main themes in a clear and rich
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The symphony is in four linked movements (i.e. one movement leads straight into the next, with no pause between them), and includes a number of ideas that return in various guises throughout the symphony, for example the use of simultaneous chords a
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Perhaps the composer never intended the symphony to be programmatic, but it was inevitable that his post-war audience should associate its disturbing and often violent character with the detonation of the
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fifths) and orchestration both revert to the first movement's density. The trio section features the tenor saxophone's only true solo role in the symphony; when the scherzo material recurs the composer
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The symphony continues to provoke much speculation about its "meaning", and the only clue from Vaughan Williams himself (as quoted by his widow), points us in the direction of an agnostic
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the fugue subject and eventually combines that form with the original version. With the final climax (the trio theme stated by full orchestra) the music almost collapses, leaving the
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bombing in 1941 moved him to incorporate elements of jazz, including a saxophone solo in the Scherzo movement. This influence was noted by the conductor
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This movement follows a vaguely fugal structure, but that structure is not especially perceptible to the listener because the entire movement is marked
428:, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Before that year was out, the same musicians had taken the work to Boston, Pittsburgh and Chicago (3 December). 1425: 731: 111:. In several respects this symphony marks the beginning of Vaughan Williams's experiments with orchestration that so characterise his late music. 1413: 674: 1003: 741: 714: 1095: 966: 911: 791: 1394: 1246: 1126: 1221: 1101: 986: 973: 537: 1363: 1016: 946: 941: 923: 918: 490: 100: 859: 1494: 1057: 1036: 1026: 85:
comes close to the music's meaning: "We are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep."
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The Symphony is noteworthy for its unusually discordant harmonic language, reminiscent in approach if not in technique of his
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Stokowski – Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York – Columbia Masterworks ML 4214 (Manhattan Center, 21 Feb. 1949)
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Handley – London Philharmonic Orchestra – Classics for Pleasure CFP 40334 (Walthamstow Assembly Hall, 5–6 Feb. 1979)
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The first two recordings were initially released on 78rpm discs. The first one was made on 21 February 1949 by the
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that they eventually have little sense of profile. A central feature of this movement is a "rat-a-tat" rhythmic
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on 21 April 1948. Within a year it had received some 100 performances, including the U.S. premiere by the
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Thomson – London Symphony Orchestra – Chandos CHAN 8740 (St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, 16–17 Dec. 1988)
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in London on 21 April 1948. Serge Koussevitzky led the score's American premiere on 7 August 1948, at
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Hickox – London Symphony Orchestra – Chandos CHSA 5016 (All Saints Church, Tooting, 21–22 Jan. 2003)
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Bakels – Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – Naxos 8.550733 (Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, 12 Nov. 1993)
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The first performance was given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult at the
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Manze – Royal Liverpool Philharmonic – Onyx 4184 (Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 21–23 April 2017)
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Davis-A – BBC Symphony Orchestra – Teldec 9031-73127-2 (St Augustine's Church, London, Oct. 1990)
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Boult – New Philharmonia Orchestra – BBC Legends BBCL 4256-2 (Cheltenham Town Hall, 7 July 1972)
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A typical performance takes about 35 minutes. It is scored for a large orchestra including: 2
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Norrington – London Philharmonic – Decca 458 658–2 (Colosseum, Watford, 15–16 Dec. 1997)
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Davis-C – Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – BR Klassik 900705 (Gasteig, 30 April 1987)
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Previn – London Symphony Orchestra – RCA Victor SB 6769 (Kingsway Hall, 1–3 April 1968)
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Haitink – London Philharmonic – EMI CD 5 56762 2 (Colosseum, Watford, 13–14 Dec. 1997)
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Boult – London Symphony Orchestra – HMV 10-inch BLP 1001 (Abbey Road, 23–24 Feb. 1949)
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Part of the symphony's first movement (Allegro) was used as the theme tune for the
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The symphony begins very loudly with the full orchestra playing simultaneously in
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entire symphony), the movement winds down with a lengthy solo played by the
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gave the first New York performances the following January with the
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who took the symphony on its initial tour around the world.
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from over a decade earlier, and for its inclusion of a
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holding the sustained note that links to the Finale.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
World War II
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Adrian Boult
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Serge Koussevitzky
Leopold Stokowski
New York Philharmonic
atomic bombs
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Shakespeare
The Tempest
CafΓ© de Paris
Malcolm Sargent
Symphony No. 4
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E minor
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