OEuvre contemporaine originalepour 2 violons solos et orchestre à cordes de jeunes. Commande de la Cité de la Musique. Créée le 11 février 2009 à la Salle Pleyel (France), par le London Symphony orchestra et des élèves d'établissemnts scolaires et de conservatoires d'Île-de-France, sous la direction de Christophe Mangou. Durée : 9 mn 50 s / Orchestre / Partition

Of all his early chamber works the Nocturne is most clearly by the mature Vaughan Williams almost anticipating the influence of Ravel which followed his lessons from the French composer in 1908. In the veiled beauty of its highly chromatic harmonies we hear already the tone-poet of the slow movement of A London Symphony while in the fleet-footed Scherzo there is already a French influence in the way the folk-song is subtly woven into the texture only brief snatches of the tune being heard until the penultimate page when it receives fuller treatment. The work plays for about 10 minutes. The 1904 Scherzo is a vigorous march with fugal episodes whichlasts some 6 minutes and may effectively be performed by itself.