English Pastoral School Classical Mix【 THE NTS GUIDE TO… 】

Two hours of music from The English Pastoral School, an informal musical movement from the early to mid-20th Century, that included composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Frederick Delius. Seeking to emerge from the shadows of the dominant German, French and Italian styles of concert and classical music, the Pastoral School sought to create works that were distinctly "English", evoking the green idylls of England's countryside, and borrowing aesthetic choices from early Tudor music and traditional folk songs.
In many ways the Pastoral School's compositions are companion pieces to the earlier painters of English pastoral scenes such as Constable, Turner, and Gainsborough.

0:00:00 - Frederick Delius, The London Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Collins - On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring
0:06:04 Vaughan Williams, David Nolan, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley - The Lark Ascending
0:21:00 Iona Brown, Trevor Connah, Stephen Shingles & Kenneth Heath - Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams)
0:36:00 Frederick Delius, Anthony Collins, London Symphony - Summer Night On The River
0:42:10 - Alan Rawsthorne, Lennox Berkeley, Peter Racine Fricker, The Little Orchestra Of London, Leslie Jones - Serenade For Strings
0:43:59 - Butterworth, Britten, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner - Two English Idylls
1:04:24 - John Ireland, Sinfonia Of London, John Wilson - The Forgotten Rite - Prelude For Orchestra
1:11:06 - Patrick Hadley, Gerald Finzi, Vernon Handley, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Thomas Allen, Ian Partridge, Guildford Philharmonic Choir, Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra - The Trees So High (Symphonic Ballad In A Minor)
1:21:47 Herbert Howells - Hymnus Paradisi (1935/1938)
1:35:17 Finzi, Philip Langridge, Philip Fowke, Richard Hickox, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic Choir - Intimations Of Morality (Ode For Tenor Solo, Mixed Chorus And Orchestra Op. 29)
1:44:31 - Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Gustav Holst - A Somerset Rhapsody, Op. 21/2
1:53:29 - Butterworth, Britten, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner - The Banks Of Green Willow