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Dundonnell
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« on: May 27, 2019, 02:11:54 pm » |
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Well, obviously I very much hope that it is "an undiscovered choral masterpiece". Vaughan Williams certainly wrote several pieces that amply justify such a description. But, I have to confess to a certain initial scepticism. If VW did indeed "put it aside" and not return to it then the question which arises is: why not? How much of the work as it will be presented later this year is actually VW and how much Martin Yates's re-imagining of what VW might have written?
The reconstructions of VW sketches and the orchestration of incidental music etc etc have produced some perfectly attractive music but hardly-in most cases- "undiscovered masterpieces".
My reservations about the efforts (hugely accomplished though these are) and the exercise as a whole remain undiminished, I am afraid.
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