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 ...

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 ...

Ralph Vaughan ... A London Symphony. During the First World War Ralph volunteered himself into army life until the armistice when he was appointed director of music for the First Army of the British ...