The Sea – CACOPHONY

141. Songs from a disappearing world: Vaughan Williams, Norfolk Rhapsody

20/03/2023 by Steve

Haunting and melancholy music from my hometown, Vaughan Williams’s Norfolk Rhapsody No.1 features the old songs of fisherman and the last days of a way of life. Like the local landscape it’s bleak but beautiful!

Total listening time 18 mins (podcast 7′, music 11′)… Listen

137. I must go down to the sea again: Debussy, La Mer

10/02/2023 by Steve

Who doesn’t love gazing at the sea? It’s something that brings out the meditative in all of us as we stare at it and think deep thoughts. Claude Debussy didn’t want us to think too hard – just to listen. In La Mer, he brings The Sea to us wherever we are, in all its beauty and wonder.

Total listening time 36 mins (podcast 11′, music 25′)… Listen