The Vaughan Williams Foundation was established in 2022, exactly 150 years after the birth of the celebrated composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

We aim to honour RVW’s desire to support his fellow composers, and we also aim to make his work accessible to wider audiences.

Vaughan Williams' 7th symphony, Sinfonia Antartica, was created after he composed the score for the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic

The evening before he left for Manchester for the first performance in 1952, RVW asked Ursula Wood to marry him.

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'The baritone has been singing this collection, his ‘fantasy birthday party concert’, in recitals with pianist Susie Allan and their collaboration has been honed to perfection for this album ' - Limelight on Roderick Williams's Vaughan Williams, A Birthday Garland.

Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony
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Saturday May 11th. A few more days to go! Please book tickets: [email protected] Generously supported by Vaughan Williams Foundation
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Vaughan Williams composed his Symphony No. 6 between 1944 and 1947. The premiere took place in 1948, at the Royal Albert Hall in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, conducted by Adrian Boult.

🔎 Explore its background with BBC Music Magazine here: bit.ly/4aCsCHC

This article by @cathLoveday about the connections between music and memory contains a lovely account of how one couple were keen to have Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending playing at the birth of their baby...

📖 Read it here: classical-music.com/articles/music…

WOW! Sneaked into the classical charts amongst some really amazing people!
Thanks so much to all you beautiful people who have listened to Prism! ❤️
It’s so great to be able to share this brilliant music!
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A reminder: the first in Leominster Museum's series of events celebrating the life of Ella Mary Leather is now just over a month away. Tickets selling fast. Members of Marches Family Network, Vaughan Williams Foundation, EFDSS, Three Choirs Festival, don't let this very special occasion slip through your fingers. Book now!

Vaughan Williams wrote his Symphony No. 5 in D major between 1938 and 1943.
It represented a shift away from the dissonance of his Fourth Symphony and a return to the gentler style of the earlier Pastoral Symphony.

The work was an immediate success at its premiere in 1943 👏

In this episode of the All the Right Notes podcast, we look at the phenomenon of Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending – why are we so obsessed with it?
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A good example here of what people did before the internet existed - they wrote questions down and shared them via letter! ✉️

UK Music needs information on creator’s earnings to help calculate the economic contribution the industry made in 2023. This will help UK Music in its mission to persuade the Government to support #musiccreators .

Find the survey here: bit.ly/49Yo39u

BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus We are delighted to be able to pay tribute to Payne and his close relationship with the @bbcsymphonyorchestra through the release of this new album, ‘Visions and Journeys’.

This album was made possible by those who donated to the Anthony Payne Album Appeal
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The BBC Philharmonic welcomes conductor Andrew Manze for a programme featuring Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ruth Gipps.

Enter the BBC ballot for tickets here by 2pm today👇
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'I'm not at all sure that I like it myself now. All I know is that it's what I wanted to do at the time' - Vaughan Williams on his Symphony No. 4 in F minor.

Its first recording featured the composer himself, in what was his only commercial recording of any of his symphonies.

Sending thanks to Vaughan Williams Foundation for their support in the creation of 'Elements' by Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres debuting at our concerts this year. We are grateful to them for making the performance of this moving and thought-provoking piece a reality.
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So cool to explore Vaughan Williams’ rarely performed “Antarctic Symphony” with the phenomenal @SeattleSymphony and Chorus, Jennifer Bromagen and @IoanGruffudd, complete with TWO wind machines!

Rehearsals have been terrific so far with the young musicians of the #SCO Academy. ✨

They will be joining The Lark Ascending programme this week with Andrew Manze, performing Vaughan Williams' Concerto Grosso.

Tickets are available on our website.

Vaughan Williams' friend, the composer Gustav Holst, wrote to him in 1903 in response to RVW expressing concern that his 'invention had gone.'

From The Lark Ascending to Sinfonia Antarctica, here are some of Ralph Vaughan Williams's greatest works in outstanding recordings from André Previn, Bernard Haitink, Adrian Boult and more, as compiled by Gramophone.
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