Lend me your hears

Benji · February 24, 2009, 11:09:51 AM

Please help a mog out and tell me what this is, if you can. I found this wee file in the My Documents folder, which is where I put anything and everything that is clogging up my desktop or any other folder. Out of sight out of mind! Except this has been out of sight and mind for anything up to 4 years since I last cleared out the folder.

It is really driving me to distraction! I thought I had correctly identified it as the start of Vaughan Williams' 5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus, but then.... a wind instrument?!

The only clues I have are that it is Track 17 from whatever disc it came from, and it is entitled 'Prelude'.

Benji · February 24, 2009, 11:12:07 AM

...and it occurs to me that it might have even been something I downloaded from one of the sample quiz games on the old forum!

mahler10th · February 25, 2009, 03:15:38 AM

Is this the full file? If not, what's the track length?

Benji · February 25, 2009, 07:53:51 AM

Quote from: John on February 25, 2009, 03:15:38 AM
Is this the full file? If not, what's the track length?

That's all I have! Very frustrating...

mahler10th · February 26, 2009, 10:02:15 PM

I think it is Albert Roussel, but I can't remember which 'Prelude'.

vandermolen · July 15, 2009, 01:01:13 PM

How weird! It starts in the same way as VW's Dives and Lazarus and then sounds as if it is going to become part of his English Folksong Suite. Do you have any more of the clip?

vandermolen · August 01, 2009, 07:48:06 AM

Quote from: Benji on February 24, 2009, 11:09:51 AM
Please help a mog out and tell me what this is, if you can. I found this wee file in the My Documents folder, which is where I put anything and everything that is clogging up my desktop or any other folder. Out of sight out of mind! Except this has been out of sight and mind for anything up to 4 years since I last cleared out the folder.

It is really driving me to distraction! I thought I had correctly identified it as the start of Vaughan Williams' 5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus, but then.... a wind instrument?!

The only clues I have are that it is Track 17 from whatever disc it came from, and it is entitled 'Prelude'.

OK, my Sherlock Holmes type detective skills have tracked this one down now - it is indeed by Vaughan Williams and is his score for the film 'The Dim Little Island' (partially reconstructed by Stephen Hogger). It can be found on Volume 2 of 'The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams' on Chandos (or on a new boxed set containing all three releases). The music is from a 10 minute documentary film released in 1949.

topseed66 · August 08, 2009, 11:20:57 AM

I think it is Albert Roussel, I simply liked him.