The music is perfect for LOTR. I can envision various sense from the story while listening to the music. Beautiful. Music has a way of enhancing any other piece of art, don't you think?
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis is one of my favorite pieces of music ever, and while I've listened to plenty of RVW's other music, I have somehow missed the Phantasy Quintet. To Spotify I go!
The music is perfect for LOTR. I can envision various sense from the story while listening to the music. Beautiful. Music has a way of enhancing any other piece of art, don't you think?
Yes, that's exactly why I'm writing about JRRT and RVW concurrently.
Great stuff as always John. Glad to see Jay featured here as well. I agree he is required reading.
That quintet version is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing, John.
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis is one of my favorite pieces of music ever, and while I've listened to plenty of RVW's other music, I have somehow missed the Phantasy Quintet. To Spotify I go!
John, I'm hiding my face at the generosity of your comments. Thank you, my friend.
I can't wait to get into all that Williams. whom I've loved ever since an English college friend first introduced me to A London Symphony.
I’ll probably be featuring A London Symphony in a few weeks.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/why-fumth-in-fight/585812115?i=585812497
https://bibleasmusic.com/why-fumeth-in-fight-psalm-2-1-2-thomas-tallis/
Thanks for the Tallis original. There is also a performance of that on the album that includes the Spano recording of the Fantasia.