It would be fascinating to know how Vaughan Williams conducted the first London performance of his Sancta Civitas with what was then his Bach Choir. Was his interpretation so well-mannered, so ...
If you want to get my goat, or, I daresay, the goat of any librarian, make a gratuitous reference to shushing. The finger held to the lips, the aggressive whisper, the frown at a pin’s drop. We don’t ...
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Cleobury, Ailish Tynan (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Britten Sinfonia (King’s College) Vaughan Williams’s dramatic cantata Dona nobis pacem (1936), to ...
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” — Leonard Bernstein In light of increasing violence in our world, this quote ...
Symphony No. 4 Robert Spano Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer (The) Lark ascending Robert Spano Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer David Coucheron ...
Alexandra Coghlan for Building a Library recommends the best recording of Vaughan Williams's plea for peace, tolerance and understanding written in 1936, his Dona Nobis Pacem. The piece is on a huge ...
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