Ralph Vaughn Williams. There's a composer who knew his magick.
The Lark Ascending has always lifted me out of anything I've been bogged down in. If there's such a thing as English mysticism, this is it.
I couldn't find a video of the whole piece, so here it is in two parts.
In the same vein, his Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis is wonderful.
Yes!! Yes!! Yes!!! LOVE both these pieces of music.
ReplyDeleteAlso must ad Spem in Alium, by Thomas Tallis himself. Glorious Angels all sounding like the choir in Heaven itself. If I believed in Heaven. ;-) But if Heaven was real, it would sound like that.