Afternoon Concert celebrates Vaughan Williams and friends, with Martha Argerich at the Granada Festival playing music by his teacher Ravel. Katie Derham presents a special edition of In Tune ...

In them Vaughan Williams’s style is audibly emerging from the influences (notably Ravel, briefly his teacher) that helped form it. In the First Quartet’s opening movement an arching, lyrical melody ...

Ravel. Despite all of this it took him until his 40s to really get going on his own career! Vaughan Williams was a collector of folk songs. He travelled all over England writing down songs sung to ...