Music lovers tend to think we have Ralph Vaughan Williams’ number, because the characteristic traits of his style — the pastoral mood, the reliance on folk songs and modal scales — are so distinctive ...
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There are many ways to look at the Cleveland Orchestra's program of music by Leonard Bernstein and Ralph Vaughan Williams this week at Severance Hall. Two choral works (Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms, ...
The Finnish violinist-conductor strips back The Lark Ascending to revelatory effect in an album that moves from searing grief to radiant, folk-infused transcendence with Sam Amidon ...
For its April Masterworks concert, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra partnered with the Hartford Chorale on two substantial compositions for chorus and orchestra: Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan ...
Michael Nyman’s jaunty brand of Minimalism is still powerfully evocative – memories of late-night screenings of impenetrable Peter Greenaway films came flooding back within seconds of starting to ...
Yet more music you’ve never heard by a composer who really should be better known. Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892-1965) wrote an opera based on Melville’s Billy Budd several years before Britten, and ...
Serenade to Music Andrew Manze, Composer Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams, Conductor (5) Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus' Ralph Vaughan Williams, Conductor Royal Liverpool ...