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 ...

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 ...