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Chester Music Society Choir
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Part of the Chester Music Society 2022-23 Season
Add to my Calendar 19-11-2022 19:30 19-11-2022 21:30 36 Chester Music Society Choir A Sea Symphony is among the best-known of a host of sea-related pieces being written around the same time in England, some of the most famous of which are Stanford's Songs of the Fleet (also featured in tonight's concert) (1910), Elgar's Sea Pictures (1899), and Frank Bridge's The Sea (1911). Debussy's La Mer (1905) may also have been influential in this apparent nautical obsession.The text of A Sea Symphony comes from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Though Whitman's poems were little known in England at the time, Vaughan Williams was attracted to them for their ability to transcend both metaphysical and humanist perspectives. "There is no mistaking the physical exhilaration or the visionary rapture" Chester Cathedral, Chester DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Chester Cathedral
Saint Werburgh Street
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 2DY
England
Programme
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending (arr. for String Orchestra)
Charles Villiers Stanford – Songs of the Fleet, Op.117
Ralph Vaughan Williams – A Sea Symphony
Performers
Susanna Fairbairn – soprano
James Cleverton – baritone
Graham Jordan-Ellis – Conductor
Chester Music Society Choir
Liverpool Sinfonia
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
A Sea Symphony is among the best-known of a host of sea-related pieces being written around the same time in England, some of the most famous of which are Stanford's Songs of the Fleet (also featured in tonight's concert) (1910), Elgar's Sea Pictures (1899), and Frank Bridge's The Sea (1911). Debussy's La Mer (1905) may also have been influential in this apparent nautical obsession.
The text of A Sea Symphony comes from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Though Whitman's poems were little known in England at the time, Vaughan Williams was attracted to them for their ability to transcend both metaphysical and humanist perspectives. "There is no mistaking the physical exhilaration or the visionary rapture"
