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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Composer of the Week: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958): Episode 3: The Stage Works: Shakespearean Portraits

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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

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Episode 3: The Stage Works: Shakespearean Portraits

The Stage Works: Shakespearean Portraits

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), The Stage Works: Shakespearean Portraits

Donald Macleod explores Vaughan Williams's works on Elizabethan and Tudor themes.

Donald Macleod explores Vaughan Williams's works on Elizabethan and Tudor themes as well as the chequered performance history of his operas.

The experience of working with the RSC on the music for a number of plays in 1913 sowed the seeds for Vaughan Williams's Falstaffian opera Sir John in Love. This, like most of his operas, was first produced by amateurs, as opportunities for an English composer to get an opera performed were almost non-existent in the early 20th century. With Donald Macleod.

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Donald Macleod surveys Vaughan Williams's operas, a neglected area of his work

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