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Even today, when music transcends national borders more than ever, English composers rely on champions. Foreign conductors who have worked extensively in the UK — Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, ...

English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) served as an ambulance driver during WW I. Inspired by the paradox of witnessing beautiful sunsets over killing fields in northern France, he ...

English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) served as an ambulance driver during WW I. Inspired by the paradox of witnessing beautiful sunsets over killing fields in northern France, he ...

The first few minutes of Monteverdi's Vespers are a knockout. Rarely has one sustained chord been so fruitfully deployed, and the big plagal cadence at the end is wonderful. Heard live, in a big, ...

(Boult, New Philharmonia Orchestra; Angel S-36532). Vaughan Williams‚ Pastoral Symphony could do with more variety, but it remains pleasant music to listen to or, occasionally, to wander from. For a ...

Vaughan Williams: Overture to The Wasps - 9' Philip Sawyers: Symphony No. 6, A Pastoral - 25' Elgar: Violin Concerto, Op.61 - 48' Conductor: Kenneth Woods Violin: Zoe Byers Many consider Elgar’s ...

Fatma Daglar has enjoyed the sound of beautiful melodies coming from an oboe since she was a child. “My dad really encouraged me to play the oboe, to pick it up. He loved the oboe and listened a lot ...

Sir Antonio and the LSO plays Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony and continue their exploration of the music of Vaughan Williams with his ravishing Flos Campi and Dona nobis pacem. Show more Tchaikovsky faces ...