O TASTE and See was composed for the Queen's coronation in 1953. Now it will be sung by a choir as Her Majesty's life is celebrated during her funeral at Westminster Abbey. O taste and see That the ...

Down Ampney, the picturesque Cotswold village of Vaughan Williams’s birth, is also the hymn-tune to which we sing ‘Come down, O Love divine’ . With or without the words, it provides a perfect ...

In an elegiac portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams the man and composer, on the 50th anniversary of his death, Stephen Johnson travels across the country Vaughan Williams so loved, to see some of the ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) is one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Drawing on the influences of English folk song and Tudor polyphony, Ralph succeeded at reviving British ...