Vaughan Williams

by Simon Heffer

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This is a tweedy purveyor of folklore; too many larks ascending and too much. "Linden Lea": no composer's work has ever been more cruelly stereotyped than that of Ralph Vaughan Williams. The truth could hardly have been more different: that folksy feel masked the highest sophistication, that countrified air the most audacious experimentation. If, unlike his Germanizing contemporary Elgar, Vaughan Williams did indeed open the way to a distinctively English Music, his was an Englishness which owed nothing to narrow-mindedness or lack of artistic enterprise. Fifty years after his death in 1958, Vaughan Williams' reputation is greater than ever...Read more
  • ISBN10 0571287212
  • ISBN13 9780571287215
  • Publish Date 5 April 2012 (first published 9 March 2000)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Faber & Faber
  • Imprint Faber Finds
  • Language English