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What is your favourite Vaughan Williams composition?

Or do you love them all....

From the lens Vaughan Williams Songs.

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  • notimetoulouse Apr 12, 2012 @ 3:47 pm | delete
    Goodness Mirabel, what have you done here? I have just started a silly squidoo quest that sent me off squidliking four lenses of my favourite music. Lightheartedly I typed in Ralph Vaughan Williams as a joke, knowing full well it would prompt me to make the first lens, and look what's come up!!
    Thank you so so much for this labour of love.
    I'm and Englishman, and RVW has an uncanny, beautiful knack of touching something deep inside of us that brings back what is probably a mythical, mystical England now, but boyoboyoboy can he reach inside you and bring peace and utter contentment.
    As a soldier, thousands of miles from home, hearing The Lark Ascending, or On Wenlock Edge (which led me to Housman) could move me close to tears it brought 'home' back so well.
    My own favourites? Difficult, difficult, but if you were to hold me to two it would be Tallis and the 5 variants of Dives and Lazarus.
    Words can't say what it meant to me to find this lens Mirabel. Thank you again.
    It's very late as I write this, but tomorrow I'm off to Lulu to buy your book. It's the least I can do.
    Have you put it up as a Kindle book yet?
    Thanks once again. A lovely lens about a lovely man and lovely music. x
  • ilovemusic Dec 30, 2011 @ 1:48 pm | delete
    Thank you for this fascinating introduction to the songs of Vaughan Williams. I also enjoyed the poems from Housman.
  • MrsPotts Jun 21, 2011 @ 3:06 am | delete
    This composer was recently suggested to me, so I went looking and found your very informative lens. Will be back to explore the music, but have listened to the beginning of Tallis Fantasia which was hauntingly lovely. Thank you!
  • Srena44 Jun 14, 2011 @ 12:20 am | delete
    I really enjoyed in reading... very nice lens...
  • raphaelo May 28, 2011 @ 5:03 pm | delete
    So wonderful lens to tribute to Vaughan Williams.. His songs are all beautiful. I like it. 5 stars for you. Have a wonderful time.. always .. dear Photahsiamirabel :)
  • aesta1 Apr 6, 2011 @ 7:35 am | delete
    I enjoy his music much. Am not good at music but this is one I remember well.
  • aesta1 Apr 6, 2011 @ 7:35 am | delete
    I enjoy his music much. Am not good at music but this is one I remember well.
  • ---Chazz Mar 26, 2011 @ 3:02 pm | delete
    What an interesting lens! I've learned a lot here today.
  • capriliz Mar 25, 2011 @ 1:54 pm | delete
    I enjoy the music and I have enjoyed your lens. Thanks for all the wonderful information on this composer.
  • Home-Interior-Designer Feb 22, 2011 @ 1:25 am | delete
    Wonderfully interesting lens. Your url attracted me for Wenlock, the Wreakin and Clun are all familiar places to me from my childhood. As a poet too, the verses struck a chord. Fascinating to read.
  • Nenkai Feb 11, 2011 @ 1:10 pm | delete
    Molta benedizione!! Greetings from the new Neighborhood Angel!

    I LOVE THIS LENS! It's so full of information, fun tidbits and great choices of music. What a super job!

    I struggle to appreciate Vaughan Williams' music, I confess. I know it's intelligent and deep; yet from the period, I rather like Elgar. It makes me very unsophisticated, I know!! Love Ravel's comment. Bet that's happened to lots of "masters"... and I also suspect that many of them like their students copying their style!
  • Nenkai Feb 11, 2011 @ 12:45 pm | delete
    I love this lens!!! Many benedizione (which I hope means blessings). I am delighted to be the new Neighborhood Angel for Classical Music, and as soon as I stop typing Angel as Angle I'm sure I'll have a ball.

    I love the Ravel quote:- Ravel however described Vaughan Williams as "the only one of my pupils who does not write my music." I can just imagine how often that would have happened to Ravel, and indeed any master.
  • paperfacets Sep 29, 2010 @ 12:23 am | delete
    I have enjoyed almost everything I have heard of Vaughan Williams. Good page.
  • Meloramus Sep 10, 2010 @ 1:14 pm | delete
    One of my favourite composers. Thanks for sharing the information.
  • whitemoss Sep 8, 2010 @ 8:25 am | delete
    This is a wonderful lens on one of my favourite composers. Thank you - blessed by a new angel and added to my angel lens.
  • Photahsiamirabel Sep 8, 2010 @ 8:50 am | delete
    Thank you for my first blessing on this favourite lens! He is one of my favourite too - the list changes from time to time, but he never leaves the Top 3! :)

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