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Above: Leith Hill Place, VW's childhood
home, as it is today. This was Vaughan Williams’ home from
the age of three until he left the Royal College of Music although
he was regular visitor thereafter. He inherited the property in 1944
but left the house and the surrounding area to the National Trust.
The house had been built in c1600 and bought by RVW’s maternal
grandfather, Josiah Wedgwood. The famous Leith Hill Festival took
its name from the beauty spot nearby. VW moved to a more modest house
in Dorking (White Gates) in order to concentrate on his work. "If
I had to decide what trees were to be cut, what vegetables planted,
what cows sold, I should lose all pleasure in the place – and
if I ran the place properly I shouldn't have any time for my own
work."
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Symphonic Impression.
Composed 1904.
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor Bernard Haitink
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Left: VW's
wife Adeline (Fischer) in 1908. Adeline was
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Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 in
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Symphonic Impression.
London Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Richard Hickox
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Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas
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For double string orchestra
and string quartet.
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Andrew Davis. Recorded at Gloucester
Cathedral.
©BBC
Left: Gloucester
Cathedral where the Tallis Fantasia was first performed on the 6th September
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Five Variants of Dives and
Lazarus |
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For strings and harp.
London Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Richard Hickox.
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Concerto Grosso |
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For string orchestra.
London Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Bryden Thomson.
©CHANDOS
Left: VW was partial to the company of ladies! Seen here with
Mrs Sumsion and Vera Wood. |
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Prelude and Fugue in C minor |
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For strings and harp.
London Symphony Orchestra, Ian Watson (organ), Conductor Richard
Hickox.
©CHANDOS
Left: VW and Ursula at Hanover
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