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 original Barbirolli/Halle LP recording, ...

WAYNE, PA — In an exciting commencement to its 2024-25 season, the Wayne Oratorio Society is set to present Ralph Vaughan Williams’ monumental work, A Sea Symphony. This choral masterpiece ...

(Barbirolli-ILalle Orchestra; Angel S-36478). The kind of music into which the Big Ben chimes fit comfortably. Maybe this 1914 London no longer exists either physically or musically, but it makes ...

David Owen Norris chooses his favourite version of Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony.

The Music: Composed in Chelsea and debuted in 1914, A London Symphony was Vaughan Williams’s second, and favourite, symphony. In equal parts gritty and soaring, it paints a realistic portrait of a ...

SOUTH BEND — Under the baton of Music Director Alastair Willis, the South Bend Symphony Orchestra performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at the Morris Performing Arts Center, 211 N. Michigan St.

Vaughan Williams Today 2/4 All this month, Donald Macleod takes a fresh look at composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. This week, Donald chronicles Vaughan Williams’ life through the years 1914 to 1930.

Vaughan Williams’s 1944 Concerto for oboe and strings is one of few such works to maintain a foothold in the repertoire. David Threasher listens to a selection of the available recordings Ralph ...

Part one of this event featured a work that is a rare treat in live performance: the Symphony No. 6 by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Part two consisted of two works for piano and orchestra by George ...

The Symphony No. 4, identified at the 1935 premiere as an angry depiction of the state of Europe (though Vaughan Williams denied it), rages splendidly. The Symphony No. 6 is colourful, assertive ...