The concerts — Saturday night and Sunday afternoon — also feature Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Vocalise” by Sergei Rachmaninoff and ends with Vaughan Williams’ ...
Poetry Out Loud, presented in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, brings some of ...
David is well known in the Basingstoke area as a conductor and music educator and has inspired the choir to deliver many ...
Bass-baritone Kevin Spooner returns following his 2024 work with Charlottesville Opera to join The Oratorio Society of ...
On Saturday, Mar 8, two major works for chorus and orchestra by Sergei Prokofiev and Ralph Vaughan Williams will be performed ...
RALPH Vaughan Williams' greatest hits were highlighted in a thrilling concert from the Halle, conducted by Andrew Manze.
Vaughan Williams Today continues BBC Radio 3’s celebrations marking 150 years since Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth. Special programming throughout October explores the life and music of one of ...
In one of the twin beds lay Ralph Vaughan Williams - already acclaimed as one of the finest composers ever to emerge in Britain. In the other lay his wife of 48 years, Adeline. And in between them ...
Why is Vaughan Williams’s Second Quartet not part of the international chamber repertory? Played as eloquently as this it seems unarguably a masterpiece, and a masterpiece specifically of its time: ...
By 1919, Vaughan Williams had returned to the Royal College of Music as a member of the teaching staff and soon became conductor of the Bach Choir and the Handel Society. At the age of 70, Ralph moved ...
One of Britain’s most popular works, evoking images of a pastoral idyll and a soaring skylark is an unlikely war work. Composed originally for piano and violin the work captures the tranquillity ...