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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 4: The Stage Works - A Masterpiece and a Problem Opera

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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

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Episode 4: The Stage Works - A Masterpiece and a Problem Opera

The Stage Works - A Masterpiece and a Problem Opera

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), The Stage Works - A Masterpiece and a Problem Opera

Donald Macleod focuses on two completely contrasting Vaughan Williams operas.

Donald Macleod focuses on two completely contrasting Vaughan Williams operas, one being his most successful and the other a work that the composer fretted over for many years.

Donald Macleod continues his survey of the stage works of Vaughan Williams, with an astonishingly bleak and intense one-act opera based on a play by J.M Synge, and a less successful "romantic extravaganza".

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

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