Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 6 may be the most remarkable piece you’ve never heard. On Friday morning, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra gave its first-ever performance of the English ...

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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 ...

Listening to Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony and you might be inclined to think of visions of babbling brooks and bucolic meadows.

RVW’s final symphony took time to become established following its composer’s death. Geraint Lewis charts its emergence on recordings as a summative, valedictory work of uncommon power Constable’s ...

“The opening of this symphony is one of the boldest and thrilling in the repertoire, said Maestro Caulkins. “It sets off a 70-minute saga that explores not just the sea, but our place within ...

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 ...

First performed in March 1914, Vaughan Williams’s London Symphony evokes the chimes of Westminster, a chilly November in Bloomsbury and the bright lights of the Strand in a city that would soon ...

This year “The Lark Ascending” by Ralph Vaughan Williams was voted Classic FM listeners’ favourite piece of classical music (as it was last year, and the one before that, and the one before that).

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 ...