Richard Bratby

Ralph Vaughan Williams: modernist master

Richard Bratby thinks we’ve got the father of British music all wrong

His nine symphonies travel from high-Edwardian idealism to the era of the hydrogen bomb: Ralph Vaughan Williams conducting the Hallé in 1956. Credit: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images 
issue 05 February 2022
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