The concert features a salute to the music of the British Isles, including folk melodies, ceremonial marches and landmark works by composers Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger.
A piece Ralph Vaughan-Williams wrote for the English Folk Dance Society's annual festival occasionally gets performed and recorded these days. George Hurst leads the Bournemouth Sinfonietta in Vaughan ...
We'll join the Luxembourg Philharmonic in concert later in the hour for music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. For now, let's hear a bit of his music on recording. George Hurst leads the Bournemouth ...
Keith Alldritt's Vaughan Williams: Composer, Radical, Patriot—A Biography falls into the second category of musical biography, along with many of the drawbacks that accompany it. Alldritt is, by trade ...