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Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony.
Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Telarc CD-80588.
On the one hand I have to applaud maestro Spano for choosing Vaughan Williams' First Symphony, "A Sea Symphony," as a vehicle for displaying the talents of his Atlanta orchestra and chorus. On the other hand, I have never personally found the "Sea Symphony" of any supreme interest, although I can appreciate the poems by Walt Whitman upon which it is based. I mean, the idea of 60 or 80 people singing in unison "Behold the sea!" sounds a little silly to me.
Nevertheless, it never stopped me from at least bearing up to Sir Adrian Boult's old EMI recording of the work, nor Haitink's newer EMI one. Strange, then, that I took no interest whatever in this newest rendition. I suppose it's because I didn't find Spano's overly literal interpretation all that inspiring. He seems to approach the work in too straightforward a manner, with little of the warm, expansive, expressive feel of Boult, especially. These four movements are supposed to be largely programmatic, with titles like "A Song for All Seas, All Ships," "On the Beach at Night, Alone," ...
- A Sea Symphony. (New Recordings).(the Telarc recording of Vaughan Williams's A...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada So, Joseph March 22, 2003 700+ words
The Telarc recording of Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1), featuring baritone Brett Polegato and soprano Christine Goerke as soloists, with Robert Spano conducting...
- Sea Symphony, A
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
Sea Symphony, A. Sym. (his first) by Vaughan Williams for sop., bar., ch., and orch., to text taken from poems by Whitman. Comp. 1903–9, rev. 1910, 1918, and 1924. F.p. Leeds Fest. 1910, cond. composer. F. London p. 1913.
- 'SEA SYMPHONY': FULFILLING, TRIUMPHANT
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff May 3, 1988 700+ words
...Jordan Hall Sunday night. Vaughan Williams' "A Sea Symphony" is that rare thing among...too small a word for the "Sea Symphony"; it is a work we experience...entirely fulfilling event. "A Sea Symphony" is an unusual piece, a...
- A `Sea Symphony' Worth Its Salt
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Tim Page November 12, 1996 700+ words
...performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams's massive exercise...Whitmania -- "A Sea Symphony." This was...performed in 1910. Vaughan Williams labored on the "Sea Symphony" -- a "sea...inevitable direction. Vaughan Williams was never an...
- Vaughan Williams Essays.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes Faust, Frederick March 1, 2004 700+ words
...have all been Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellows. Funded...the genesis of A Sea Symphony, there is such a...considers whether Vaughan Williams decided that "I...was finally based. Vaughan Williams, resisting the influence...
- Classical VAUGHAN WILLIAMS SYMPHONY CYCLE Barbican Centre, London
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Stephen Johnson September 20, 1995 700+ words
...Barbican's Vaughan Williams series. Impossible...programme - A Sea Symphony (No 1) and...stretches in the Sea Symphony degenerate into...upper lip - Vaughan Williams manages an ingenious...carries the Sea Symphony is the younger...
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph
- Reference information from: World Encyclopedia January 1, 2005 700+ words
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–...Ascending (1914). Vaughan Williams' modal style, based...Tallis (1910) and A Sea Symphony (1909). The Tudor...visionary tradition. Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antarctica...
- Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea and Hugh the Drover
- Magazine article from: Opera News Traubner, Richard February 17, 1996 700+ words
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Riders to the Sea Finnie, Dawson, Attrot; Daymond; Northern...singing. But this fits with the composer's original vision, more sea symphony than folk tragedy. Addenda include the choral Flos Campi and the...
