Praeludium (Symphony No.5) - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), transcribed and performed by David Briggs on the 1888 Father Willis Organ of Truro Cathedral. Ralph Vaughan Williams completed his Fifth Symphony in 1943. It is, perhaps, the warmest of the nine symphonies, clearly influenced by the unfinished opera Pilgrim's Progress, and famously dedicated 'without permission' to Jean Sibelius. Written in wartime, it is described as expressing 'not mere resignation under disaster, but hope during

Vaughan Williams, London Philharmonic, Boult - Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 3 & 5

Vaughan Williams - Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner - Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis / The Lark Ascending / Five Variants Of Dives And Lazarus / Fantasia On Greensleeves (Vaughan Williams Concert)

Vaughan Williams - Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner - Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis / The Lark Ascending / Five Variants Of Dives And Lazarus / Fantasia On Greensleeves (Vaughan Williams Concert)

Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, reimagined as a beautiful choir piece