Ralph Vaughan Williams

First publication of the orchestral cycle Songs of Travel, setting poems of Robert Louis Stevenson. Three of the nine orchestrations are by the composer, dating from 1905; the remainder were scored by...

Boldly reimagined and completed by Martin Yates, The Future, a substantial non finito draft of a major choral setting of words by Matthew Arnold, dates from 1908, immediately after Toward the Unknown...

This work features 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis,' Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1),' 'Linden Lea,' and 'Overture to 'The Wasps'' (Aristophanic Suite). Interesting melodies, beautiful orchestrati...

For string orchestra and harp - 2.2.2.1.hp

Frederick Grinke (the dedicatee) and the pianist Michael Mullinar premiered this sonata in 1954. The opening Fantasia contrasts a rhythmic piano figure with a slow flowing theme on the violin, while t...

Vaughan Williams's Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra was the first major concerto to be written for the instrument. It was composed in 1953-4 to mark the 50th anniversary of the LSO, and was premie...