Molly explores this piece - from peaceful fields to the horror of the WW1 trenches. Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English 20th Century composer who wrote symphonies, chamber music, opera ...

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 ...

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: ...

During World War One, Vaughan Williams enlisted to fight (even though he was technically too old) and he spent a difficult two years as a stretcher-bearer on the front line before being appointed ...