{"product_id":"boult-vaughan-williams-symphonies-volume-1-a-sea-symphony-19534-pasc658","title":"BOULT Vaughan Williams Symphonies Volume 1: A Sea Symphony (1953\/4) - PASC658","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eVAUGHAN WILLIAMS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e A Sea Symphony \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e(Symphony No. 1)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recording, 1953\/4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 67:20\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eIsobel Baillie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, soprano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eJohn Cameron\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, baritone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eLondon Philharmonic Choir \u0026amp; Orchestra  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSir Adrian Boult\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC658.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eA Sea Symphony\u003c\/em\u003e\nof Ralph Vaughan Williams was the composer’s first large-scale composition\nto receive a public performance and subsequent publication. (Two\nunpublished predecessors, also for vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra,\nthat have emerged from manuscripts only in recent years are\u003cem\u003eThe Garden of Proserpine\u003c\/em\u003e from 1897–99 and \u003cem\u003eA Cambridge Mass \u003c\/em\u003efrom 1901, the latter submitted for the D.Mus.\ndegree at Cambridge.) RVW began work on the score, originally envisioned as\na cantata titled \u003cem\u003eOcean\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1903 or 1904; in her biography of her\nhusband, Ursula Vaughan Williams mentions that he was working on it during\na 1904 vacation in Yorkshire. In 1906 he wrote to Gustav Holst that the\nscoring of the second movement was done, and the whole was completed in\n1907, though revisions would be made right up to its premiere. Influences\nupon it include the cantata \u003cem\u003eInvocation to Music\u003c\/em\u003e of his revered\nteacher, C. H. H. Parry; Elgar’s \u003cem\u003eThe Dream of Gerontius\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eSea Drift\u003c\/em\u003e of Frederick Delius. (During his studies with Ravel in\n1907, RVW hunted down Delius in Paris and played the entire work for him,\neliciting the laconic rejoinder, “Vraiment, il n’est pas mesquin”—Truly, it\nis not shabby.)\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe premiere was given at the Leeds Music Festival on 12 October 1910,\nRVW’s 38th birthday, with the composer on the podium. The soloists were\nsoprano Cicely Gleeson-White and baritone James Campbell McInness; the\nrenowned dramatic soprano Agnes Nicholls (wife of Hamilton Harty), whom RVW\noriginally had in mind in writing that solo part, would sing with McInness\nin subsequent performances elsewhere. Despite the now famous words of\nencouragement from timpanist C. A. Henderson—“Give us a square\nfour-in-the-bar, and we’ll do the rest”—RVW was diffident as to how the\ninitial performance went, even describing it in a 1941 letter as “a\ncomplete flop.” Aside from his own lack of sufficient experience as a\nconductor, it certainly could not have boosted his confidence when a\nnervous McInness said to him, “If I stop, you’ll go on, won’t you?” In\nfact, though, reviews were quite positive. Herbert Thompson of the \u003cem\u003eYorkshire Post\u003c\/em\u003e perceptively observed, “The music is difficult,\nunnecessarily so, one would imagine, for probably the desired effect might\nhave been obtained with less complication and fewer awkward passages, but\nhowever this may be, it strikes one as sincere, highly poetic in feeling,\nand showing the power to deal with a big canvas. The ideas are never puny\nor finicking, and the music has breadth and grandeur….” The critics for the \u003cem\u003eLondon Times\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eManchester Guardian \u003c\/em\u003ewere even more\nenthusiastic, without reservations. Thanks to championing by Hugh Percy\nAllen (1869–1946), who in 1918 both succeeded Parry as a professor of music\nat Oxford and became director of the Royal College of Music in London, the\nsymphony had further performances at Oxford in 1911 (which RVW found far\nmore satisfactory) and London in 1913. But it was a 19 June 1919\nperformance, directed by Allen for presentation of an honorary Oxford\ndoctorate to the composer, that is often considered to have established the\nwork in the standard repertoire in England.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe subsequent success of \u003cem\u003eA Sea Symphony\u003c\/em\u003e was also due in no small\nmeasure to the advocacy of Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983). As an\nundergraduate at Oxford he came under the tutelage of Allen; he sang as a\nchorister in a performance of \u003cem\u003eToward the Unknown Region\u003c\/em\u003e in 1909,\nattended the first two performances of \u003cem\u003eA Sea Symphony\u003c\/em\u003e, and was\nintroduced to RVW in 1912. Boult conducted the symphony himself beginning\nin 1924, and assiduously promoted it thereafter; at a 1930 London\nperformance, RVW’s first wife Adeline wrote to a friend, “Adrian Boult must\nbe overworking, he is nothing but a black streak in a white waistcoat….”\nDuring his 20 years as director of music at the BBC, Boult used his\nposition to promote the music of English composers, above all Elgar and\nVaughan Williams. While the two men were not close personal friends, their\nrelationship was more than cordial. To this day, Boult remains the\nunrivalled champion of RVW’s music on disc, with over 60 recordings of 36\ndifferent works that includes two complete cycles of the nine symphonies,\nwith the present 1953 recording coming from the first cycle. Fittingly, on\n20 February 1983, two days before his death, Boult asked his wife to play\nfor him his second, stereo recording of \u003cem\u003eA Sea Symphony\u003c\/em\u003e; it was the\nlast music he was to hear in this life.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enotes by \u003cb\u003eJames Altena\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOULT \u003c\/b\u003eVaughan Williams Symphonies, Volume 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eVAUGHAN WILLIAMS\u003c\/b\u003e A Sea Symphony \u003cbr\u003e(Symphony No. 1)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e1st mvt. - A Song for All Seas, All Ships\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. (1)  Behold, the sea itself  (3:28)\u003cbr\u003e2. (2) Today a rude brief recitative  (5:04)\u003cbr\u003e3. (3) Flaunt out, O sea, your separate flags of nations!  (3:02)\u003cbr\u003e4. (4) Token of all brave captains  (4:14)\u003cbr\u003e5. (5) A pennant universal  (3:42)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2nd mvt. - On the Beach at Night, Alone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. (1) On the Beach at Night, Alone  (3:53)\u003cbr\u003e7. (2) A vast similitude interlocks all  (7:49)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. \u003cb\u003e3rd mvt. - Scherzo - The Waves\u003c\/b\u003e  (7:16)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4th mvt. - The Explorers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. (1) O vast Rondure, swimming in Space  (4:12)\u003cbr\u003e10. (2) Down from the gardens of Asia descending  (7:30)\u003cbr\u003e11. (3) O we can wait no longer  (5:14)\u003cbr\u003e12. (4) O thou transcendent  (3:26)\u003cbr\u003e13. (5) Greater than stars or suns  (1:25)\u003cbr\u003e14. (6) Sail forth  (2:34)\u003cbr\u003e15. 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