Alain Frogley presents six programmes exploring the composer's little-known transatlantic connections.
5: Pilgrim Fathers
As a writer of hymn tunes and admirer of Bunyan, Vaughan Williams had much in common with American composers as they rediscovered their Puritan past.
Ives Thanksgiving and Forefathers' Day
(Holidays Symphony)
Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (mono)
Strings of the New York Philharmonic, conductor
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Randall Thompson Alleluia Harvard University Choir/ Murray Forbes Somerville Cowell Hymn and Fuguing Tune No 2 Manhattan Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Richard Auldon Clark
William Schuman New England Triptych
The Phoenix Symphony, conductor James Sedares
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No 5 in D LSO/André Previn