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 ...

During World War One, Vaughan Williams enlisted to fight (even though ... would go on to influence his music a great deal. His 4th Symphony, for instance, sounds particularly full of anger and ...

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 ...