Vaughan Williams: Phantasy Quintet/String Quartets 1 & 2
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2001-05-15
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Phantasy Quintet: Prelude: Lento ma non troppo
- Phantasy Quintet: Scherzo: Prestissimo
- Phantasy Quintet: Alla Sarabanda: Lento
- Phantasy Quintet: Burlesca: Allegro moderato
- String Quartet No. 1 in G minor: Allegro moderato
- String Quartet No. 1 in G minor: Minuet and Trio: Tempo do minuetto
- String Quartet No. 1 in G minor: Romance: Andante sostenuto
- String Quartet No. 1 in G minor: Finale: Rondo Capriccioso - Allegro
- String Quartet No. 2 in A minor: Prelude: Allegro appassionato
- String Quartet No. 2 in A minor: Romance: Largo
- String Quartet No. 2 in A minor: Scherzo: Allegro
- String Quartet No. 2 in A minor: Epilogue: Andante sostenuto
Free Music Notes for Vaughan Williams: Phantasy Quintet/String Quartets 1 & 2
Free Music Review: Lovely, if largely unknown, works
Hit: 5 Stars
Ralph Vaughan Williams tends to be relatively unknown and unplayed outside of the UK these days, except for a few pieces, like his Greensleeves Fantasia, the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, or the exquisitely lyrical The Lark Ascending. He's become known as an English pastoralist on the basis of these few works. A shame, really, because he has much more going for him: his Fourth Symphony is a seething, dissonant response to WWI, while his Eighth suggests Shostakovich in its wry humor. The three chamber works on this CD will not disappoint those who are hoping for RVW in his lyric, English landscape mode, especially the lovely Phantasy Quintet. But I suggest a closer listen to the Quartet in A minor, which dates from the middle of WWII. It's not a work filled with anger or dissonance, but rather with a deep sadness mixed with determination and strength. A fitting portrait of the British as they survived the war, and all round a beautifully constructed composition. The playing and sound is excellent.
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