The Fantasia on Greensleeves uses not only the traditional tune alluded to in the title but also the melody ‘Lovely Joan’, which Vaughan Williams came across in Suffolk. In 1934, under the watchful ...

It was the work that was to cement Vaughan Williams’s reputation not just at home, but across the rest of Europe, too. The Fantasia’s main theme, heard after the hypnotic opening chords, was ...

The melody was collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams in the early 20th century, and Vaughan Williams included “Sussex Carol” in his Fantasia on Christmas Carols from 1912, even before it was ...

“I’ve always loved carols,” Vaughan Williams wrote to Cecil ... his lifelong passion for the Christmas period was demonstrated in his music - the Fantasia on Christmas Carols, On Christmas ...

The third piece is a quintessentially religious tale about Christmas. Hodie by Ralph Vaughan Williams is the greatest Christmas composition. It draws its text from Catholic, biblical, and poetic ...

The concert will showcase Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols, a 1912 work for baritone, choir and orchestra. First performed at Hereford Cathedral, it consists of the English ...

Today marks the 150th birthday of one of England's most revered composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams ... This beloved fantasia draws on a somber, poignant 16th-century psalm setting.

Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of our country's greatest ... in pieces like the perennially popular The Lark Ascending and Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Samira Ahmed explores his musical ...

Those wishing to expand their repertoire of Christmas Carols beyond “Jingle ... December 10 when it presents British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols.

Ralph Vaughan Williams's work topped the ... The top five was completed by Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2, another Vaughan Williams work Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Elgar's Enigma ...

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