The image of the Lark ascending onto the horizon resonated with the mood of the time, which was characterised by a general wave of nostalgia sweeping across Europe, as the onset of War became more ...

By 1994 the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society had been founded with the aim to widen knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the composer and to encourage the performance of his works. Did you know?

a glamorous young poet whose close friendship with the great composer - almost four decades her senior - had by now become a full-blown affair. That Vaughan Williams should have invited his ...

In the First Quartet’s opening movement an arching, lyrical melody that sounds like Vaughan Williams speaking with a French accent (and is it a French lark that ascends a little later?) has shed the ...

This week’s Composer of the Week spotlights Ralph Vaughan Williams - one of Britain’s most loved composers, and best-known symphonists, writing nine symphonies which span almost fifty years of ...

Katie Derham presents a special edition of In Tune dedicated to the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, born 150 years ago today. Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell ...

Donald Macleod charts the long life and career of Vaughan Williams, a composer in love with his country, with a passion for French music and who was scarred by wartime service ...

The ashes of Ralph Vaughan Williams, eminent British composer, and his second wife Ursula are buried in the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey, near the graves of Herbert Howells and Charles ...

2 has been revealed as Britain's favourite piece of classical music – beating Vaughan Williams for the second year in a row. The Russian composer's piece came out on top in the annual Classic FM ...

Charles Frend’s Scott of the Antarctic starring John Mills came out in 1948, complete with a score by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Britain’s greatest living composer expanded on his thematic ideas to ...

Composed by the renowned British composer Vaughan Williams in 1909, it is set to the expressive poetry of Walt Whitman. "Vaughan Williams' music describes the sea as a symbol for the infinite ...