Music Help!

[Tonyblack]

I'm going crazy trying to recognise a piece of music that was used in the BBC drama documentary: 'Spanish Flu - The Forgotten Fallen' that was on last night.

You can hear the piece of music HERE.

I'm fairly sure it's a Vaughan-Williams piece and I have loads of recordings of his music, but am drawing a blank. I know this piece so well, but can't think what it is.

I would appreciate any help in tracking it down.

 

[DaveC]

Can't help I'm afraid, although I did just find this site for finding trailer music if you didn't know it already.

http://www.soundtrack.net/trailers/

 

[deldaisy]

I'm going crazy trying to recognise a piece of music that was used in the BBC drama documentary: 'Spanish Flu - The Forgotten Fallen' that was on last night.

You can hear the piece of music HERE.

Okay that made me cry.

Edit: The music sounds Irish.

Edit: "We Heard The Bells"

 

[poohcarrot]

I'm pretty sure it ain't Stiff Little Fingers.

 

[Tonyblack]

Oddly enough, so am I.

 

[deldaisy]

One final detail underlined the exceptional quality of this programme. Instead of drenching Peter Harness’s script in a synthesised score, Hardy used extracts from classical masterpieces: Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition for bustling at the town hall and the sublime slow movement of Schubert’s Last Piano Sonata for the dying rooms. What an eerily clever choice: music written by a man facing death in his early 30s. That was the age group preferred by the Spanish flu, which turned the strong immune systems of healthy young people against them. As Niven observed: “It likes a fight.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvan ... eview.html

Much better... but wait there is MORE.

 

[poohcarrot]

Nice quoting Del. Have you had lessons?

 

[deldaisy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fieLpth3PMA&feature=fvst

Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata D. 960 part 2

 

[deldaisy]

Nice quoting Del. Have you had lessons?

Ahhhhhhhhh But I DID find the music (through my tears)

 

[deldaisy]

And actually the comments on youtube are true....

This is the better music of the same piece...

Sviatoslav Richter - Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata D. 960 4/6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EGIbFAF-U0

 

[Tonyblack]

Thanks Del! I'd spotted the Mussorgsky and Schubert pieces. It's that choral/string piece that I'm so keen to identify though.

 

[deldaisy]

Bugger! NOW you tell me!

Go look for it yourself! You know... SEARCH!.... hunt for it over and over again.... looking in every corner, every little nook and smiley.... er.... I mean... cranny! Yes! How do YOU like it!!!!!

EDIT: Get a copy of the show and watch the credits

OR

That original link you put up? Its got a "Contact Us" part on it.

 

[Tonyblack]

Bugger! NOW you tell me!

Go look for it yourself! You know... SEARCH!.... hunt for it over and over again.... looking in every corner, every little nook and smiley.... er.... I mean... cranny! Yes! How do YOU like it!!!!!

EDIT: Get a copy of the show and watch the credits

OR

That original link you put up? Its got a "Contact Us" part on it.

Bless you! I do appreciate your help, but I'd searched for ages this morning without any luck and was hoping someone here would know what it was.

 

[Teppic]

Vaughan Williams - Flos Campi, Sixth movement

 

[Tonyblack]

Vaughan Williams - Flos Campi, Sixth movement

Thank you thank you thank you!

No wonder it was so familiar - I had it as a Christmas present from Sharlene last year.

Here it is!

Thank you again!

 

[Teppic]

No worries. I can't say I know it that well but I do have it on CD (a box set along with the symphonies).

The musipedia site I posted last week was a fat lot of good. Played in the melody and got nowhere with that. Though I've since checked and it is actually on there.

A Google search for "vaughan williams viola solo opening" did the trick in the end.

 

[Tonyblack]

I've literally got dozens of Vaughan Williams recordings. I've got a box set of all the symphonies (although Flos Campi isn't on it). He's my favourite composer. When I heard the piece on the TV I thought 'VW' but couldn't place it and then got unsure about whether it was him or not.

Needless to say, I dug out my new CD and I am playing it at the moment.