Many of Vaughan Williams’s most famous compositions were direct settings of famous or newly discovered folk melodies. In the case of his Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, the inspiration was less ...

says the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society (aka the RVWS — a list of events is at the bottom of this page). Perhaps most famous for The Lark Ascending and Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis — regular ...

The piece conjures images of a lark flying over the English countryside, and is Vaughan Williams most enduring work.

Today marks the 150th birthday of one of England's most revered composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, who is also ... and one of his first works of substance was this Mass evoking Renaissance models ...

The program, titled Silent Noon: The Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams, will feature three major works by Vaughan Williams for tenor, baritone, and piano. In a first for the organization ...

Down Ampney, the picturesque Cotswold village of Vaughan Williams’s birth, is also the hymn-tune to ... 100th Psalm Tune (‘All people that on earth do dwell’) may be his most-performed music. They ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) is one of the most important composers of the 20th century ... Charles Wood and Stanford. Ralph's early work was influenced by his dissatisfaction with the English ...