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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 2: The Stage Works - A Vision of Albion

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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

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Episode 2: The Stage Works - A Vision of Albion

The Stage Works - A Vision of Albion

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), The Stage Works - A Vision of Albion

Donald Macleod explores the appeal to Vaughan Williams of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

Donald Macleod explores the appeal to Vaughan Williams of John Bunyan's book The Pilgrim's Progress as well as the composer's friendship with Gustav Holst.

Donald Macleod charts the course of Vaughan Williams's John Bunyan odyssey, a thread which would weave itself through the whole of his creative life, and would culminate in 1951 with the premiere of his full-scale opera The Pilgrim's Progress. Presented by Donald Macleod.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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

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Episode 2: The Stage Works - A Vision of Albion

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