http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-361-ralph-vaughan-williams/topic-rss.do Ralph Vaughan Williams RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23723260-cambridge-university-diversity-in-proms-show.do Forget centenaries, bicentenaries, tercentenaries. Let's celebrate Cambridge University's founding 800 years ago. 2009-07-22T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23718793-herbie-hancock-to-the-rescue.do Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang's strange concert, a thing of fits and starts, took the form of a mystery tour. 2009-07-12T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23670259-macbeth-oliver-and-now-puccini-theatre-director-goold-signs-up-to-eno.do Award-winning director Rupert Goold, 36, is to direct Turandot in the English National Opera's next season 2009-04-02T08:18:09Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23659605-a-brutalism-borne-in-the-resistance.do For many years the BBC mounted an annual celebration of a contemporary composer that left few stones unturned. One emerged from those weekends battered, exhilarated and infinitely better informed 2009-03-09T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23594178-wave-of-emotion-in-riders-to-the-sea.do Death permeates Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Riders to the Sea, and it hovers tragically over English National Opera’s production. 2008-11-28T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23591507-conductor-richard-hickox-dies-at-60.do Richard Hickox has died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 60, four days before he was due to conduct a new production at English National Opera 2008-11-24T13:34:24Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23555657-proms-brought-to-close-with-flair.do Kitted out in Welsh red dragon coat trimmed with saltire and cross of St George, Bryn Terfel led the lusty crowd in Rule, Britannia! at the Last Night of the Proms. 2008-09-14T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23554186-mysterious-journey-in-brabbins-prom.do With the beginning and possible ending of the world in the news Brabbins' Prom was the ideal opportunity for a journey into the unknown. 2008-09-10T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23546106-violins-thrill-at-etvs-premiere.do Eötvös's two-movement elegy launches straight in on high, with stratospheric violin textures offset by ensemble sounds. 2008-08-27T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23545372-pastoral-passion-for-andrew-davis.do Andrew Davis conducted the BBCSO in a programme that offered the original masque Job and enigmatic Ninth Symphony. 2008-08-26T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23531752-rare-delight-from-sinaisky.do The juxtaposition of the familiar and the unfamiliar is a hallmark of the Proms as Sinaisky's concert demonstrated. 2008-08-12T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23523353-hall-orchestra-is-reborn.do Under Mark Elder the Hallé is once again playing with security of technique and a radiance of tone reminiscent of Barbirolli's period. 2008-07-29T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23521015-sudbin-is-in-an-altared-state.do If the Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin was suffering pre-nup nerves, he kept them well hidden at the Proms. 2008-07-24T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23516818-the-25-must-see-proms.do The 2008 Proms caters for all tastes, prejudices and proclivities as never before. Here are the moments you can't miss. 2008-07-16T09:10:17Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23497851-pilgrims-progress-brought-to-life.do The Pilgrim's Progress marked the 50th anniversary of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams's death, and it pulled out all the stops. 2008-06-22T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23496945-big-hearted-bryns-sensitivity-and-showmanship.do A big man with a huge voice, Bryn Terfel represented value for money, according to Nick Kimberly, even with tickets to last night's benefit show costing Ł250 apiece. 2008-06-19T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23489295-a-poignant-tribute.do The Philharmonia and Richard Hickox's Pioneering Pilgrim series marked the 50th anniversary of the death of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. 2008-06-01T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23484004-pushing-musical-boundaries.do Tsunami is not an elegy for victims of a natural disaster but a monodrama about a man whose life is in pieces following a marital break-up. 2008-05-11T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23481392-the-vaughan-identity.do He has been out of fashion for more than 50 years, but now composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's vision of Englishness is being celebrated once again. 2008-04-30T13:36:20Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23481109-an-innovative-performance.do The world premiere of Thomas Adčs’s In Seven Days: Piano Concerto with Moving Image was a triumph, says Fiona Maddocks. 2008-04-28T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23476099-dr-who-takes-a-bow-at-proms.do A new Doctor Who story will be screened at a special Prom dedicated to the TV show 2008-04-09T07:47:44Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23476152-co-ordinates-are-set-for-the-proms-doctor.do A special episode of Dr Who, written by Russell T Davies and presented by Freema Agyeman, is to be screened at the Albert Hall as part of the BBC concert series. 2008-04-09T09:56:29Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/review-23421571-achingly-cool-at-skylon.do It may sound like a hotel on the outskirts of Heathrow, but Skylon strikes exactly the right note. 2007-11-19T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23417163-tears-and-joy-as-puppet-pulls-at-heartstrings.do War Horse is a fine, lyrical, emotionally charged piece of theatrical work that evokes a vanished, hierarchic England at war, says Nicholas de Jongh. 2007-10-17T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23413426-violinist-to-perform-music-she-inspired.do Rising violinist Nicola Benedetti will this week perform the premiere of a piece written for her by the composer Sir John Tavener. 2007-09-24T14:15:31Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23406904-scintillating-homage-to-vaughan-williams.do From the slightly twee to the meticulously crafted, this playful and fantasy filled homage to Vaughan Williams at the proms holds its head very high. 2007-08-02T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23405987-all-brit-prom-by-an-old-hand.do Last night's all-British Prom by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Sir Andrew Davis showed off their considerable talents. 2007-07-26T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23382244-critics-choice-top-five-classical-events.do Concerts devoted to Elgar, Mozart's classic The Marriage of Figaro and the Crouch End Festival Chorus all feature among Barry Millington's picks. 2007-01-18T15:56:24Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23377972-dame-judi-makes-merry-in-sorry-wives-tale.do The Royal Shakespeare Company has embarked on an expensive gamble by inflicting this flamboyantly awful, musical version of The Merry Wives Of Windsor upon us, says Nicholas de Jongh. 2006-12-13T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23373778-an-anniversary-well-worth-celebrating.do For half a century the RVW Trust has helped the careers of young, upcoming composers and its invaluable work was celebrated in a 50th Anniversary Concert. 2006-11-08T00:00:00Z