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Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

This masterpiece has haunted me for a very long time, and I never tire of it. I realise this piece has received ample coverage here, but I wanted to include it in my coverage of the English pastoral composers. I leave it to Rob Young to elucidate: "The Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is time travel enacted in music; a temporal bridge between the Tudors and the modern Edwardians. It operates in space as well as time. Vaughan Williams divided the string section into two blocs which throw call-and-response repetitions at each other as if from either side of the choir stalls. A quartet occasionally rises up, but in the opening bars all are united, drawing a veil of mystic chords around the listener. Tallis's lines are furtively picked out in the lower register, and then all strings rhapsodically "sing" the tune in one of the composer's most lustrous, luminescent pieces of writing. Recurring throughout is an ascending phrase in the Phrygian mode -- a scale Vaughan Williams detected repeatedly in English folk music. This motif, sounding like an ecstatic awakening, obsessed him: he used it in The Pilgrim's Progress to denote the Christian pilgrim arriving at his goal, the Celestial City. It recurs as a portal ushering the listener through each of the Fantasia's brief, concentrated segments, all the way to the final unison chord which, if struck correctly, conjures the illusion of a church organ". Rob Young of the Guardian Newspaper. I took these pictures in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England, in the Spring of 2012. The Royal Cypher "ER" (Elizabeth Regina - Queen Elizabeth) at 10:38 is of hazel in a fir background at Bramley Dale, which I photographed from Chatsworth. This striking hillside tribute was planted in commemoration of the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002. For more videos and other information about the Peak District please visit Let's Stay Peak District at http://www.peakdistrict-nationalpark.com Sir John Barbirolli, Conductor Sinfonia of London An EMI Recording