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21 Nov 2025 · London
NTS Guide to: The English Pastoral School
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.
Collection: A.M.
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Tracklist
- Frederick Delius, The London Symphony Orchestra, Anthony CollinsOn Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring
- Vaughan Williams, David Nolan, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon HandleyThe Lark Ascending
- Iona Brown, Trevor Connah, Stephen Shingles & Kenneth HeathFantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams)
- Frederick Delius, Anthony Collins, London SymphonySummer Night On The River
- Alan Rawsthorne, Lennox Berkeley, Peter Racine Fricker, The Little Orchestra Of London, Leslie JonesSerenade For Strings
- Butterworth, Britten, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville MarrinerTwo English Idylls
- John Ireland, Sinfonia Of London, John WilsonThe Forgotten Rite - Prelude For Orchestra
- Patrick Hadley, Gerald Finzi, Vernon Handley, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Thomas Allen, Ian Partridge, Guildford Philharmonic Choir, Guildford Philharmonic OrchestraThe Trees So High (Symphonic Ballad In A Minor)
- Herbert HowellsHymnus Paradisi (1935/1938)
- Finzi, Philip Langridge, Philip Fowke, Richard Hickox, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic ChoirIntimations Of Morality (Ode For Tenor Solo, Mixed Chorus And Orchestra Op. 29)
- Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Gustav HolstA Somerset Rhapsody, Op. 21/2
- Butterworth, Britten, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville MarrinerThe Banks Of Green Willow