Ralph Vaughan Williams : Concerto for Oboe and Strings. Henry Herbert La Thangue : Paintings.

Originally written for the oboist Leon Goossens, the “Concerto for Oboe and Strings“ is played here by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner. The oboist in this recording is Celia Nicklin. The paintings are by the English artist Henry Herbert La Thangue. The one at about is entitled “The Man with the Scythe“, (you can see him at the garden gate), and is rather unusual for La Thangue, a painter of rural realism, being a symbolistic representation of death. The previous painting, called “The Last Furrow“ is far more typical of his style.