A Sea Symphony: Poems by Walt Whitman

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Robert Spano

A Sea Symphony is the first symphony by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, completed in 1909 and first performed in 1910. The choral-orchestral work sets texts by Walt Whitman and combines expansive orchestration, soloists and choir with modal harmonies and folk-influenced melodies, exemplifying Vaughan Williams's early synthesis of English folk elements with late-Romantic orchestral techniques and situating the piece as a key early work in his symphonic output and in the revival of British orchestral music in the early 20th century.