Lebrecht Weekly | Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
Oenologists tell me there is no obvious reason why some fine wines travel and others don’t. It’s the same with symphonic composers. Carl Nielsen will…
Browsing: Ralph Vaughan Williams
David John Pike: Celebrating Vaughan Williams
Canadian baritone David John Pike has long admired the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. At his 2012 Luxembourg recital, Pike’s performance of the composer’s Songs…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Britten, Hindemith, RVW, Martinu (Claves)
It has been a while since the viola last had a powerful advocate. Timothy Ridout, 24 and British, is being touted as the next star…
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 3 and 4 (Hyperion)
With Australia in flames, Italian cities choked by smog and parts of Canada enjoying an unseasonal thaw, I’m listening to Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony,…
Rebecca Clarke: Viola sonata (Hyperion)
There are so many misnomers about Ms Clarke that it’s worth taking a sentence or two to put them straight. Clarke (1886-1979) is widely regarded…
20th Century British Art Song: An Introduction
At the turn of the 20th century, the tradition of the drawing-room ballad still held sway. Songs of little literary value by Liza Lehmann, Maude…
Chandos’s Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Notable
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel (Chandos) James Gilchrist, tenor; Anna Tilbrook, piano; Philip Dukes, viola At the turn of the 20th century, the world was…
Lebrecht Weekly – Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 2 and 8 (Onyx)
Unless you live in England – and, in most of the country, even if you do – you will have few opportunities to hear live…
Lebrecht Weekly – Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 2 and 8 (Onyx)
Unless you live in England – and, in most of the country, even if you do – you will have few opportunities to hear live…
