Credits:

Midori Komachi & Simon Callagham

Description:

The Spirit of England as Depicted in Vaughan Williams MusicMelodies of Nostalgia.2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (18721958). Throughout his life, Vaughan Williams collected more than 800 English folk songs and established a unique style of English music that had never existed before.This album features his representative works, including The Lark Ascendingstill one of the most popular classical pieces in Britain todayas well as Romance and Pastoral, Six Etudes on English Folk Tunes, and his late-career masterpiece, the Violin Sonata, all of which draw inspiration from folk songs. These works evoke the beautiful British landscapes and melodies that Vaughan Williams loved. However, underlying them are the composers anti-war sentiments, shaped by his experiences through two world wars, and the Violin Sonata also