101 Classical Music CDs

I'm listening to Vaughan Williams for the very first time today. Today will also likely be the last time I'll listen to Vaughan Williams. ********************** Barry Wordsworth and the New Queen's Hall Orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Orchestral Works: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis; Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1; In the Fen Country Argo/Decca, 1994 ********************** Among England's best known and best regarded composers, Vaughan Williams follows a long line of European classical music composers (Brahms, Liszt, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Borodin) who were inspired and influenced by folk music from their native countries. However, here is the challenge for me with Vaughan Williams' music: it is simply too rich. Too rich with emotion, too rich in orchestration, too rich in sickly-sweet major keys, too rich in swelling chords and too rich with melodrama. If you are a music composer and you want your listeners to experience st...