1. Cencerto For Bass Tuba
... for romance. He wanted to contrast the sadness of separation in the world with a story of intimate closeness. The opening of the movement is a slow, lyrical passage very typical of Vaughan Williams' style from earlier years. This is his way of trying to recall the good old days, when he was younger, and the ... world was a better place. About a third of the way through the piece, it becomes much more frantic and less scalar, as well as changing key. This is once again a metaphor for World War II, which flipped the world on its side and plunged it into chaos. Once the piece settles back d...
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