BBC prize-winning portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams specially devised for an international competition for music programmes sponsored by Hungarian Radio this autumn. The programme, written and produced by Elaine Padmore, won her the Pro Musica award.
Last year was the centenary of Ralph Vaughan Williams's birth. This programme looks at some of the influences that made him one of England's greatest composers.
The music, by Vaughan Williams, Parry, Elgar and Holst, is performed by Ian Partridge (tenor) with the Nash Ensemble, Felicity Palmer (soprano) and Hugh Bean (violin)
Oriel Sutherland (contralto) and Roger Vignoles (piano)
St Margaret's Westminster Singers
conductor Richard Hickox
Organist Alastair Ross