Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Author: Haitink's EMI interpretation of Sinfonia antartica is exceptionally fine and I honestly cannot say that Bryden Thomson's approaches it. l treasure, too, the ...

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra continues its “Vaughan Williams and Mendelssohn” program at The Bushnell’s Belding Theater, 166 Capitol Ave., Hartford, on April 13 at 8 p.m. and April 14 at ...

Stephen Johnson and Kate Kennedy join Louise Fryer to talk about Vaughan Williams and his A London Symphony. Williams's A London Symphony was first performed in London in 1914. Is it a tune-filled ...

Vaughan Williams composed the symphony in 1921 as a cathartic response to his experiences during the First World War. In 1914, aged 42, he joined an ambulance brigade and so witnessed the carnage ...