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Classical Music

yonder

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1. Thanks. Ralph Vaughan Williams. One of my favorite classical composers.

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Original post)

Wed Jul 24, 2019, 01:52 AM

Jul 2019

I still don't get why Ralph is pronounced "Raif" rather than "Ralf". Without knowing why, I always thought it was a bit pretentious.

His "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus" is another fine one with that theme coming from a folk song/melody I first knew as The Star of the County Down. Everyone and their cousin plays that one in some form.

If there was only one word to use to describe RVW's style, I would say pastoral. As in peaceful, English countryside or Hobbitsville, etc.

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Vaughan Williams: 'Symphony No.3 'Pastoral', LPO, Haitink conducting [View all] sprinkleeninow Jul 2019 OP

Thanks. Ralph Vaughan Williams. One of my favorite classical composers. yonder Jul 2019 #1

Vaughan Williams has composed music that is soothing to one's soul which sprinkleeninow Jul 2019 #2