Osanpo Suisougaku - Seasonal Japanese Wind Band Radio
Oct 11, 2026 · 2 min · 3 segments
October 12th is Vaughan Williams's birthday. We bring you his "Fantasia on Greensleeves," built on an old English love song, for wind band. ▼ Today's piece Ralph Vaughan Williams arr. Tetsuya…
It was 1872.
Gathering the folk songs handed down in his homeland, he nurtured a music of warm, distinctly English color.
Greensleeves is an old English love song sung to a lady in green sleeves, a melody almost everyone has heard at some time.
Von Williams used the tune in an interlude from one of his own operas, and later shaped it into this Fantasia.
Carried on the sound of the harp, it flows gently, like a breeze crossing a green meadow.
Today, on Von Williams' birthday, we bring you the Fantasia on Greensleeves, for Windband.
You'll find a link to listen in the show notes.
It was 1872.
Gathering the folk songs handed down in his homeland, he nurtured a music of warm, distinctly English color.
Greensleeves is an old English love song sung to a lady in green sleeves, a melody almost everyone has heard at some time.
Von Williams used the tune in an interlude from one of his own operas, and later shaped it into this Fantasia.
Carried on the sound of the harp, it flows gently, like a breeze crossing a green meadow.
Today, on Von Williams' birthday, we bring you the Fantasia on Greensleeves, for Windband.
You'll find a link to listen in the show notes.
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