And we continue our focus on beloved British masterpieces with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s London Symphony – a musical tribute to the city, written just before the First World War. We hear it in ...
The occasion is a concert to mark the centenary of Vaughan Williams’s birth – 100 years to the day ... the same age as VW when he completed his Eighth Symphony. The BBC recording, broadcast six days ...
One of Britain’s most popular works, evoking images of a pastoral idyll and a soaring skylark is an unlikely war work. Composed originally for piano and violin the work captures the tranquillity ...