Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto; Oboe Concerto; Serenade to Music; Flos Campi (2018)

The British serialist Elisabeth Lutyens characterized Ralph Vaughan Williams as a member of the "cowpat school." The description is not only uncharitable but inaccurate: Vaughan Williams was interested not only in pastoralism but in war, religion (although he was an atheist), mysticism, the works of Shakespeare, American poetry, and much more. Musically he could sound, as in the Piano Concerto in C major heard here, like a pure Parisian neoclassicist, like a fairly hard-edged modernist, like a neo-Renaissance glorifier of ... Read More

The British serialist Elisabeth Lutyens characterized Ralph Vaughan Williams as a member of the "cowpat school." The description is not only uncharitable but inaccurate: Vaughan Williams was interested not only in pastoralism but in war, religion (although he was an atheist), mysticism, the works of Shakespeare, American poetry, and much more. Musically he could sound, as in the Piano Concerto in C major heard here, like a pure Parisian neoclassicist, like a fairly hard-edged modernist, like a neo-Renaissance glorifier of British tradition, or, yes, like a pastoralist, as in the marvelous little Oboe Concerto in A minor on this Chandos release. But here's the thing: his treatment of pastoral, modal melodic ideas was endlessly varied. Sample the first movement of the oboe concerto and hear its formal freedom as the oboe weaves unpredictably in and out of the flow. The performances here are part of the attraction: this was a valedictory release with conductor Peter Oundjian at the helm of the Toronto... Read Less

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