‘Like seeing Stonehenge for the first time’: the visionary genius of Vaughan Williams | Classical music

‘He witnessed things he was never to speak of … except perhaps in music’ … Vaughan Williams serving in the Field Ambulance in 1915.

Ask people about Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose 150th anniversary we celebrate this year, and you might be told either that he is hands down Britain’s favourite composer or a parochial embarrassment whose music sounds like […]