Talk:Symphony No. 6 (Vaughan Williams)

message: I'm afraid I disagree with a fair amount of this discussion. For example, "syncopation" is not the right word to describe the rhythmic style in the first movement, and the last movement, far from being boring, is extraordinarily intense in expression, but simply in a highly compressed, even "strangled" vein. Vaughan Williams is often described as being a "visionary" composer, and that defintely holds true in this symphony and particularly in the last movement...it's just that the vision being presented here is negative to the point of nihilism. This is also RVW's most Holst-influenced symphony, I think, and not just because it ends quietly like the Planets does. Wspencer11 
: You are not on your own in your disagreement with the article's content.  I have plans to delete much of the inaccurate personal essay making up this article; if you get to it before me then more power to your elbow!  --RobertG ♬ talk 09:35, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  There, I did it, for what it's worth. I have tried to keep the POV out but others will know better than I how successful I was in that. Wspencer11 20:48, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fine job!  That's much better.  --RobertG ♬ talk 08:23, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

message: According to the WPMOS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MOS#Italics), "An entire quotation is not italicized solely because it is a quotation." So I have removed them. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 16:35, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Whoopsie! Glad to know Lethe 17:41, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotations 

message: In the sleeve note to the Chandos/Richard Hickox recording of Pilgrim's Progress, Stephen Connock comments that Pilgrim "cries 'what shall I do' in phrases which recall the Sixth symphony" - and there is an unmistakable flavour of the scherzo in the Vanity Fair music. It would be surprising if there were no links because, as Kennedy points out  Michael Kennedy, The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Oxford University Press, Second Ed. 1980 (pp. 351-358) "composition of both works ran parallel for the crucial years of 1944-7". But Kennedy seems to regard such links as coincidental (or subconscious) rather than a use of the same material.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oldfaw (talk • contribs) 13:29, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pilgim's Progress link 

message: The "Recordings" section claims that Sir John recorded this symphony, which I don't think he did. There may be an aircheck that was issued at one point, maybe, but to me that is not the same thing as "a recording." If anyone can find a documented reference to a studio recording he made, please say so, otherwise I'll delete his name. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 21:27, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barbirolli? 

message: In the article's first sentence it is stated, that it was composed in 1946–47, during and immediately after World War II. But WWII ended in September---in Europe even in May---1945. So either the years or the during should be altered. Does anyone know the years for sure? Otherwise I'd delete during and. Steffen (talk) 10:05, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time of composition 

message: Unless whoever keeps adding this list has a warehouse full of mouldering lps they may be copying the list from somewhere without permission or attribution. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:50, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of recordings