Alain Frogley presents six programmes exploring the composer's little-known transatlantic connections.
3: Paradise Lost
A nostalgia for the past and a search for a national identity led to the adoption of Vaughan Williams 's
"back to folksong" policy on both sides of the Atlantic.
Vaughan Williams
Norfolk Rhapsody; The Lover's Ghost (Five English Folk-Songs) Henry F Gilbert
Spiritual (Suite for chamber orchestra) Roy Harris
When Johnny Comes Marching Home;
American Ballads
Vaughan Williams Hugh the Drover (opening scene) Copland Suite:
Appalachian Spring Simple Gifts;
I Bought Me a Cat; At the River (Old American Songs)
Vaughan Williams , arr Mathieson
Three Portraits (The England of Elizabeth) Discs