Tuba Concerto (Vaughan Williams) Tuba Concerto (Vaughan Williams) The Concerto in F Minor for Bass Tuba and Orchestra by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was written in 1954 for Philip Catelinet, principal tubist of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), who together gave the premiere on 13 June 1954 with Sir John Barbirolli conducting. The same musicians made the work’s first recording that same year. While at first viewed as the eccentric idea of an aging composer, the concerto soon became one of Vaughan Williams' most popular works, and an essential part of the tuba repertoire. The work is in three movements: A performance commonly
Symphony No. 6 (Vaughan Williams) symphony marks the beginning of Vaughan Williams's experiments with orchestration that so characterise his late music. The symphony is in four linked movements (i.e. one movement leads straight into the next, with no pause between them), and includes a number of ideas that return in various guises throughout the symphony, for example the use of simultaneous chords a half-step apart, or the short-short-long rhythmic figure. <score vorbis="1"> { \new PianoStaff « \new Staff \relative c" { \clef treble \numericTimeSignature \time 4/4 \key e \minor \tempo "Allegro" 4 = 100 f8--\ff g-- aes4->(~ \times 2/3 { aes8 g e) } \times