Ralph Vaughan Williams was under the spell of English folk music when he wrote his English Folk Song Suite in 1923. We hear it played in concert by an ensemble called Sinfonia da Camera, conducted by ...

Our first selection is by English composer Ralph Vaughan-Williams, who served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Royal Artillery during World War I. Vaughan-William was also an enthusiastic ...

Historian Amanda Vickery and broadcaster Tom Service unearth the fascinating story of the life-long friendship between composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst, whose music gave birth to the ...

At age six Ralph Vaughan Williams began music studies with his aunt. He furthered his education at the Royal College of Music where he received lessons from two fine English composers of the previous ...

English music has never been high up the agenda in concerts by the Irish Chamber Orchestra. So it is quite a novelty for the ICO to open its concert at Kilkenny Arts Festival on Thursday with Vaughan ...