Marvellous. Fascinating to hear a Spanish based orchestra play British music so well felt, down to the soul. Although that also says a lot of course about the music of Vaughan Williams which is absolutely brilliant.

356 thumbs up and 12 thumbs down. What's wrong with those twelve? The 356 is me! What an amazing symphony!

From an Englishman Thank you for this performance, the more V.Ws work gets performed worldwide the better, get this great orchestra to perform his 5th symphony in my opion his best

Una obra deun verdadero genio tan hermosamente interpretado por espanoles Les felicito todos..de un ingles

The second movement "Lento" is one of my all time favorite pieces of music - breathtaking. This is a very good version!

Quite remarkable, a truly English atmospheric performance. Extremely well played and interpreted, on Par with any other rendition on the concert platform.Thank you.

Excellent. The slightly slower pacing really brings out Vaughan Williams wonderful orchestral color.

Great camera work catching all of the solos and not forgetting the ensemble. And, of course, the performance was wonderful, bravo!

Beautiful, emotional performance. Thank you!

Fantastic, really enjoyed that. Take a bow Spanish Radio and Television orchestra, I think you did RVW proud with that performance!

tuned in just now. First time I purchased a VW Symphony was an LP with nr. 2. Wonderful. Of all his symphonies this ranks nr 2 in my book, after nr. 5.

Superb! a faultless performance! and one of the best renditions I have ever heard! muy bien hecho! .

Que música maravilhosa. Não a conhecia, mas estou completamente apaixonado pela temática tranquila e inebriante criada por Vaugham Williams. Uma obra para ser executada muitas vezes para fazer bem ao espírito humano, necessitado de coisas maravilhosas como esta.

Cool! This is the first time I hear Vaughan Williams performed by a foreign orchestra! And very well performed!

powerful in the 1st and 2nd movements where it needed to be, Nocturne sharp and precise, well rehearsed, an excellent rendition...... after listening to this so many times in the car, nice to see it performed with such great camera work...

Beautiful playing, everyone....thank you for playing this under-appreciated composer!

Yes RVW deserves to be heard more often outside of the U.K. and U.S. where his works are quite regularly performed. I'm always torn between symphonies 5 and 8 as to which is his best but have to say that the final movement of No.5 is IMO one of the greatest symphonic movements ever written.

Love this orchestra!!! Vaughn Williams #2 is a masterpiece and they played it like one. All of the soloists have gorgeous sounds. Conducted with impecible interpretation! Bravo!

Utterly marvellous! ¡Sinceramente, muchas gracias!

Very Beautiful!

Very fine performance and well filmed.

Greetings and heartfelt thanks from London! You've no idea how it warms my heart to see people all around the world sharing in and enjoying this intimate portrait of my home. Of course, London today isn't exactly the same as London portrayed in RVW's symphony... but look closer... the city may be wearing different clothes today, but London's soul hasn't changed a bit. A city of contrasts; bustling trade, great beauty, nobility, mystery, all going on together under dreamy twilight. All of the world existing inside one city; the city that is awake and sleeping, loud and quiet, fast and slow, powerful and gentle. My friends, visit our city; London welcomes you with pride.

beautiful tension in the opening..wonderful rendition..

tolle Leistung und Dirigent ..... und hervorragende TV-Richtung

Wow this is revelation. For those who thought only British orchestras can play VW, look no further.

It is impossible to suppress the whirlpool of excitement that rises . My mind rose , and the admiration turned to deep reverence . 🍎

Absolutely magnificent! Bravo!

Great performance. Carlos Kalmar has a great affinity with RVW hope he does more of the symphonies , there are 9 of them all different but just as great as this one.

I've several versions of this but keep coming back to this one. Thank you Justin for sharing.

just beautiful ! Min 45 is just breathtaking !

Thanks very much for sharing this!

Maybe I echo other comments, but I love this performance of a perennial favourite by RVW ...

The symphony is great

as music collector , collect this symphony on c/d , is great to see play , i wish could be they recorded , so excellent play, which unexpect european orchestra

Beautifully done! it really flows and so much power! Fantastic xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Magnífica ejecución , gracias

Brilliant magical natural rendition. Very lively.

What a coincidence. I played that same symphony a week before this performance. Oboe/English Horn. Boston

Like it a lot! Real music: great VW!

Wonderful!

This is a beatuiful performance. A rather different one from 1941 with Eugene Goossens and the Cincinnati Symphony is also on KZfaq and worth a listen. It's dubbed from 78s but in decent fidelity.

Excelente juego... full of confident power, great sound, very well judged. Overall, the players did great justice to the nostalgic English sound of the symphony. I'd love to hear this orchestra live, they really go for it. The various solo passage hand-overs in the slow movement are splendidly played with considerable virtuosity. The nuanced emotional aspect of the interpretation is palpable.

Nice, lively tempo for the Scherzo, and great dynamics on those major 9th climbs. The principal flutist got a workout, and she enjoyed every moment of it. Great performance all around.

El músico inglés más eclectico y con mayor cantidad de obras, fue Vaughan Williams, y sin embargo, fuera de su país, es poco conocido, pese a sus 9 sinfonías, 5 óperas y ballets, música de cámara, poemas sinfónicos, transcripciones de antiguos músicos británicos. Esta sinfonía " De Londres", junto a la 7ª "Antártica", son las mas divulgadas.

WOW !

1st Movement : 0:23 2nd Movement: 16:01 3rd Movement: 27:44 4th Movement: 35:28

The players look like they are being transformed by the music.

Excellent performance, bravi! (Too bad the footage is in 480p only, 1080p would have been great.)

Me sorprendió esta música inglesa, ¡qué fuerza!. Desde Purcell los músicos ingleses fueron todos unos mediocres, hasta que surgieron Williams, Elgar y Britten. Y además, maravillosa interpretación de la orquesta de RTVE española y su director.

Brilliant performance, deeply satisfying....and congratulations to the video direction for not spending half the time looking up the nose of the conductor. I appreciate conductors are important but surely most people want to watch the players as they produce the music, rather than the obsessive concentration some videos have on the sweat rolling down Gergiev's face or the grimaces of Semyon Bychkov. This video seemed to me to have the balance exactly right. Wonderful.

23:00 is so good

15:59 2d movement -Lento

Depuis qu'il avait été banni, la créature se demandait aveuglément si les brindilles sombres de la forêt, la lumière tachetée du soleil le guidant sur son chemin, il engloutissait chaque coup de soleil dans sa gorge chatoyante comme s'il n'avait jamais goûté ni vu une telle beauté. Car même avec les pieds sales, déchirés par des ronces errantes et un halo de cheveux qui s'est maintenant transformé en crinière, il a trouvé sa croyance dans le soleil couchant. Finalement, cependant, ce voyage a pris fin. Pas distinct, mais d'un seul souffle, l'aveugle sut que le monde immortel qu'il avait connu pendant toutes ses années s'était éloigné de son corps mortel. Les hommes des marais et leurs arbres décorés de pierres précieuses résonnaient dans la brise, les servantes éthérées de la terre chantaient des mélodies séduisantes, chaque chant d'oiseau auquel il était habitué avait cessé. Il était enfin parti dans l'autre monde. Il faisait noir ici, et ça sentait la vallée humide et ombragée 🌺🕊

Horn flub at about 23:21. Oh well. Happens even to the best musicians. Would probably never have noticed it if it hadn't been in the resolution of one of my favorite parts of this whole symphony.

11:26

A truely moving symphony. VW, Arnold Bax and Carl Nielson were truely great 20C composers.

27:17 The violist is missing a string!? There seems to be only 3 strings.

Shame the audience couldn't cough a bit more . . . Great performance otherwise

The amount of coughing and hacking during this sublime recording is DEPRAVED.

A pleasant-sounding performance with many good solo spots. However, the camera production went a bit overboard (imo) in its peripatetic scrambles to stay in sync with the music - WAY TOO BUSY. I would recommend just listening to the music and minimizing the window.

G major?! Feels more like D major/minor ending at an unresolved plagal cadence in G :p

So weird that there's no clapping!

Ever so slightly sluggish, in my humble opinion. Other opinions are available.