Symphony n° 1 of Vaughan Williams

The Symphonie n° 1 (sea symphony has) is a Symphonie choral society composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams between 1903 and 1909. She was created with the festival of Leeds in 1910. The type-setter was hardly thirty years old at the time of his design and this relative youth contrasts with the side imposing of work. It is made up for soprano, baritone, choruses and orchestra enriched by an organ. The texts are of Walt Whitman, American poet little known at that time: “Leaves off fatty” for the first three movements and “Passage to India” for the last.

This work is typical will of rupture with the German traditional symphony, by its inspiration (English popular songs) and by its texts.

It includes/understands 4 movements:

Song for all seas, all ships
One the beach At Night, alone
Scherzo: the Waves
The explorers : Serious E molto Adagio.

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