It was to Butterworth that Vaughan Williams owed the impulse to write his first orchestral symphony, A London Symphony; and the score is inscribed ' To the Memory of George Butterworth. '
Sir Adrian Boult , who conducted the first performance of the 1918 revision, recalls some memories of Butterworth, who died 60 years ago today. followed by Vaughan Williams A London Symphony
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT gramophone record