in Dorset - 19 September, 1958
from The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, page 250:
In the morning I listened to the Vaughan Williams ceremony in the Abbey. First his Dives & Lazarus variants. I had never heard them - they are echt V.W., with that power of imaginative invention, phrase growing from phrase like rose-wands. Then the Bach Con. for 2 fiddles. The slow movement at the slowest tempo I have ever heard, ripe for eternity. Then the Sons of Morning pavane.
Then the funeral itself, Croft, Ps. 104 (bless it!) and Greene's extraordinarily moving & accomplished (better than accomplished - coherent) Lord, let me know thy … more >>
Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Claire Harman (ed.), The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner (:London, 1995), p. 250. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1443109770991 accessed: 9 November, 2024
Listening to
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O Taste and see
written by Ralph Vaughan Williams |
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Coronation All People
written by Ralph Vaughan Williams |
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Lord let me know thy end
written by Greene |
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Concerto for 2 violins
written by Bach |
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Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
written by Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 19 September, 1958 |
Medium | broadcast |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, solitary |
Notes
The occasion was the funeral of Ralph Vaughan Williams at Westminster Abbey.