A Sea Symphony

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Philharmonic Choir & Sir Adrian Boult & John Cameron & Isobel Baillie

A Sea Symphony is the first choral symphony by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, completed in 1909. The work blends large-scale orchestral writing with chorus and soloists, setting expansive poetic texts in a modal-inflected, late-Romantic idiom that marked a formative step in Vaughan Williams's development and helped establish his voice within early 20th-century British music.
First released: 1994

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony No. 1 ("A Sea Symphony"): I A Song for all seas, all ships: Behold the sea itself
    8:36
  2. 2.
    Symphony No. 1 ("A Sea Symphony"): I A Song for all seas, all ships: Flaunt out O sea your separate flags
    11:03
  3. 3.
    Symphony No. 1 ("A Sea Symphony"): II. On the Beach at Night alone
    11:42
  4. 4.
    Symphony No. 1 ("A Sea Symphony"): III. Scherzo - The Waves
    7:15
  5. 5.
    Symphony No. 1 ("A Sea Symphony"): IV. The Explorers: O vast Rondure, swimming in space
    12:20
  6. 6.
    Symphony No. 1 ("A Sea Symphony"): IV. The Explorers: O we can wait no longer
    4:39
  7. 7.
    Symphony No. 1 ("A Sea Symphony"): IV. The Explorers: O thou transcendent
    3:27
  8. 8.
    Symphony No. 1 ("A Sea Symphony"): IV. The Explorers: Away O soul
    8:45

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