it is the sweetest, saddest, most poignant two minutes of music ever.

unfortunately, I had an intrusive commercial between each movement. but the music is sublume!

@@chask4964, why do you people refuse to get an adblocker, and why do you have to carp on about it in every single comments section? You might as well be writing that you're here because of Coronavirus.

@@Oscuros I can accept ads at the beginning, or at the end, or even in between movements. But to put an ad in the middle of a note is completely unacceptable. I think this what people are complaining about, justifiably.

2024 there is 😢😢😢

You never thought you'd enjoy music after 1920??? Wut 😂

+vincent stuart I heard that Boulez has at last admitted that there will never be a time when the post-boy wends his way up the street while whistling tone-rows from Schoenberg's greatest hits.

Indeed sir You speak the truth!!!!!!

+Gavin Bullock True, but don't forget Schoenberg wrote tonal masterpieces as well, such as his early Verklarte Nacht , Pelleas und Melisande, and the secular oratorio Gurrelieder, among others. His second string quartet is also beautiful.

+DieFlabbergast I agree with you wholeheartedly - Verklärte Nacht is one of my favourite pieces, and I agree about the 2nd string quartet. The other works I have found some difficulty with - doubtless my own fault. Schoenberg solved the problem he perceived of the threatened chaos caused by the breakdown of tonality with the duodecaphonic system he invented. Vaughan Williams extended (or revived and renewed) the musical grammar with neomodalism, derived from English folk song and the Tudor composers.

Boulez was a great admirer of Vaughan Williams. He planned on doing a complete cycle of the symphonies but died recording only three.

+Bernd Wang οh yes my friend

Agreed

I do like that part, but I will have to say that my favorite part is all of it ;)

@Brad Jensen Same!

From a quiet corner of the English countryside where the May blossom is blooming prolifically this year. May blossom is to me what cherry blossom is to the the Japanese. Thank you for liking my favourite English composer.

So you would get adblock and never be bothered ever again.

+Lisa Truman the middle line is middle C. the alto clef is also known as a "moveable C" clef, since it exists in multiple versions all on different lines. Cello and trombone also use this type of clef, though it indicates the 4th line as being middle C (called a "tenor clef").

aha! Thank you for your response. So if I have this correct - from the top line down on the lines the notes are G, E, C, A, F? All around middle C.

hello. Try Delius, Bax and specially Olivier Maessien - the "Quatour pour la fin du temps". Warning - not an easy work but a masterpiece .

Hello Nikos, I would suggest perhaps the Andante (Landscape or 1st movement) of Pavel Hass' string quartet No. 2 and the Andante molto sostenuto of Erwin Schulhoff' string quartet No. 1. I find them both amazing and bewitching.

Medtner's 3rd violin sonata and quintet.

Fauré 2nd piano quintet and piano trio

Have a taste of Paul Hindemith's Trauermusik.

+Lisa Truman That's called an "alto clef"

it's an Alto, or c-clef. it has middle c at the middle line. I learned to read it when I did music theory and now I use the knowledge for playing viola :) I also play violin and piano so I know all the clefs used here

I'm so grateful for this upload. Beautiful. I'm glad is wasn't taken down and ' corrected' on the advice of a pedantic twat as I may have missed it.

ROTPETER Thanks for your kind remarks. Your comment is unfair since, if my suggestion had been taken up the corrected version would still be there for you to enjoy.

Shut up. You’re just making an ass out of yourself.

Isn't it just sad how a perfectly justified comment evokes name-calling and so on these days? Would you say the same things into his face? And this is just classical music, where you expect at least reasonably educated people...

Eugene Goossens wrote a Phantasy Sextet

@@EmilianoManna Ooh, I missed that one. Phantasy Septet then?

@@klop4228 Mel Bonis wrote a Septuor-Fantaisie... close enough

@@EmilianoManna If we're counting it, then we need a Phantasy Octet. Now I think about it, I don't know of a Phantasy Trio or Duet either.

yes, I hear too!

+Lisa Truman The alto clef? Technically, no. But in practice, it is likely to be the case. Why? Because other instruments that play in this range either have such a limited compass that they don't need a way to reduce the use of ledger lines OR because the instrument is a transposing instrument and Middle C is already moved by using a standard treble clef and instructing the player (reader) to play x number of notes lower. Clear as mud?

So a clef and staff was created that catered to the range of a particular instrument or family of instruments. Middle C is a convention particular to the treble/bass clef nomenclature. For instance the different ranges of clarinets, saxaphones, flute/piccolo, and double reeded instruments. I speak of woodwinds as I am somewhat familiar with them as I am the piano and handbells. It would seem that this clef would be irrevelant to either piano or handbells. I am little familiar with either brass or stringed instruents as far as how the music is writtten for them.

It is 2 violins, 2 violas and 1 'cello.

Really? Try the Symphony number 4, for example.

Most composers have their "signatures"; Vaughn Williams is no different. But when you write music as beautifully evocative as his why change? I think this particular work has some elements of Ravel's influence, however, which is gorgeous.

Vaughan Williams' 'fingerprint' is instantly recognisable and this, as it does with other composers, distinguishes him from those others. That said, he was very experimental (as +Chris Keech states, try the 4th Symphony or, indeed, the 9th) and showcased many instruments, in a solo vein (harmonica and tuba spring to mind), which would not, ordinarily, find a place in the concert repertoire. To my ears, his symphonies are amongst the most varied and challenging of any composer and are always provoking - a good thing, no? Yes, RVW is recognisable and that's the beauty, only his music has his unmistakable signature. The "sound the same" argument could be thrown at Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart or Rachmaninov - would we seriously consider these composers to be derivative or any the less noteworthy (please pardon the pun!)? Another British composer who had an unmistakable fingerprint? John Barry. Yes, his music is written for a different audience but, like RVW, he found his 'signature' and, in so doing, made his mark on the musical world.... as did RVW.

I don't think you've listened to every piece

Because it was all written by the same guy.