All kinds of musical riches by formerly overlooked composers may be languishing in lofts and dusty archives.

Today marks the 150th birthday of one of England's most revered composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, who is also widely beloved beyond Britain. A folksong expert who logged long trips collecting ...

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1, In the Fen Country, Overture to the Wasps, Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, Serenade to Music. Vaughan Williams himself went to Norfolk and gathered folk tunes that he ...

Andrew Manze conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in a celebration of English music, featuring works by Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook This year’s Bard Music Festival explores the work and context of a composer who strove to make art “an expression of the whole life ...

August will mark 100 years since the beginning of WWI. This series examines the wartime experiences of the eras most gifted musical personalities. No one throws a “going out of business” party like ...

The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, born 150 years ago on Oct. 12, is one of those rare artists who are more often loved than deeply known. A few of his pieces—the lush setting of “Greensleeves” and ...

Fifty years after his death, this musical and psychological portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams explores the passions that drove a giant of 20th-century English music.

Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) isn’t just one of the most important 20th-century British composers; he is one of the supreme figures of 20th-century music. Yet, though he ...

The Poisoned Kiss is Vaughan Williams’s forgotten opera: this is the first complete recording. It was written in the late 1920s when he was at the height of his powers and about to launch into the ...

Flutist Laura Gilber, violist Mary Hammann, and harpist Stacey Shames make up an ensemble with unusual but not unheard-of instrumentation. During a recent visit to Washington, D.C., the trio stopped ...