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The Wasps (Vaughan Williams)

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{{Italic title}}The Wasps is incidental music composed by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was written for a production of Aristophanes' The Wasps at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was Vaughan Williams' first of only three forays into incidental music. A later performance of the work was one of only a small number of performances conducted by Williams that was committed to a recording.^[1]

It was scored for baritone solo voices, a chorus of tenors and baritones (in two parts each), and orchestra. The complete incidental music is lengthy (about 1 hour and 45 minutes) and is not often performed.

Vaughan Williams later arranged parts of the music into an orchestral suite (about 26 minutes), in five parts:

Overture
Entr'acte
March Past of the Kitchen Utensils
Entr'acte
Ballet and Final Tableau.

The Overture is quite concise (about 10 minutes) and is a popular independent concert piece today. The main theme is pentatonic. There are close to 30 recordings now available of the overture. The March Past of the Kitchen Utensils is also quite charming and sometimes separately performed. The entire orchestral suite is also sometimes performed and recorded.

The year before he wrote The Wasps, Vaughan Williams spent three months in Paris studying orchestration with Maurice Ravel. Although The Wasps may reflect something of Ravel, it is quintessential Vaughan Williams. Except for the opening buzzing, the piece has little to do with wasps or with ancient Greece.

References

1. ^Alain Frogley: Liner Notes, UPC 094638215721. 2007.

External links

Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - Overture: The Wasps, concise essay on MusicWeb International
First complete recording of The Wasps, reviewed by MusicWeb International (Hallé HLD7510)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20140409053434/http://www.rvwsociety.com/worksfilm.html List of Works - plays, radio and film], notations by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty5vCJ1aadk Video - Vaughan Williams - The Wasps (Orchestral Suite) (26:01).]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5NOi0mvgGo Video - Vaughan Williams - The Wasps (Complete) (105:29).]

5 : 1909 compositions|Compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams|Orchestral suites|Incidental music|Adaptations of works by Aristophanes

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