Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis {One of the best performances ever!!}

Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century. Please support my channel: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, for 2 string orchestras (1910) BBC SO conducted by Andrew Davis BBC MM83 Watch the same performance here live: Description by Mark Satola [-] The first performance of Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis took place at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral on September 6, 1910. The program was primarily devoted to Sir Edward Elgar’s oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, which may partly account for its relatively cool reception. But