Lunchtime Music: Vaughan Williams, 顿惫辞艡谩办
Recital Hall, Royal 探花直播 Conservatoire
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Vaughan Williams Phantasy Quintet
顿惫辞艡谩办 Quintet Op.97
Oliver Heath violin
Shuwei Zuo violin
Rose Redgrave viola
Jinhe Huang viola
Nicholas Trygstad cello
English folksong, lusty dancing, evocative melodies and even a hint of a lark, Vaughan Williams鈥檚 Phantasy Quintet combines all these in a freestyle fantasia (or 鈥榩hantasy鈥�) form beloved by the work鈥檚 commissioner, Walter Wilson Cobbett.
From the very opening bars of 顿惫辞艡谩办鈥檚 Quintet we are in the same territory as his much-loved String Quartet, Op. 96 鈥楢merican鈥�, and it creates an equally distinctive impression of his first summer holiday in America, in Spillville, Iowa.听 Native American themes and drumming rhythms are evident throughout and a glorious variation movement forms the heart of the work.
Running time approx. 55 minutes