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All issues have a basic core of articles, letters, reviews of recordings and concerts and Society news
Issues 1–4 edited by the late John Bishop, thereafter by Stephen Connock. Change of style from the ‘headlined’ to a ‘themed’ Journal. All issues have a basic core of letters, reviews of recordings and concerts and Society news. In February 2005 William Hedley took over as Editor from Stephen Connock. New design and format gradually introduced.

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Issues 1-10 (Sep 1994–Oct 1997)

Issue 1 September 1994

  • Inaugural issue – Bowing ourselves in In depth article by Michael Kennedy on Hodie and VW’s Christmas Music
  • Roy Douglas on Working with RVW
  • Colin Peters Film music: every composer should be taught the art
  • Lewis Foreman – The Unknown RVW – A matter for debate)
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Issue 2 January 1995

  • Rob Furneaux gives A View from the Far West.
  • Jean Lacroix – To be a French Speaker and love the music of RVW: a contradiction?
  • Keith Douglas – RVW ignored at Leith Hill Place
  • Stephen Connock compares versions of A London Symphony
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Issue 3 July 1995

  • Gwyn Parry-Jones on The inner and outer worlds of RVW.
  • David Tolley – Tracking down RVW’s music for The Mayor of Casterbridge contradiction?
  • Tony Fuller – JOB ‘this enthralling work’
  • Gwyn Parry Jones – The inner and outer worlds of RVW: the Fifth & Sixth Symphonies
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Issue 4 November 1995

  • Report on our first AGM and concert.
  • Michael Kennedy article on the Piano Concerto
  • Composer Steve Martland on the Sixth Symphony
  • Interview with conductor, Richard Hickox on the Symphonies
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Issue 5 February 1996

  • Wilfrid Mellers on the opera Sir John in Love
  • Robin Wells writes about VW’s alma mater, Charterhouse School
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Issue 6 June 1996

  • Igor Kennaway on the opera The Pilgrims Progress
  • Steve Schwarz on The Fifth Symphony
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Issue 7 October 1996

  • Reminiscences of VW by Roy Henderson
  • Andrew Herbert, VW’s Sketches for A Sea Symphony
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Issue 8 February 1997

  • Down Ampney Appeal fund launched.
  • Wilfrid Mellers on the neglected opera A Poisoned Kiss
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Issue 9 June 1997

  • Reminiscences of VW by John Carol Case
  • Interview with Leonard Slatkin
  • Jeremy Dibble on Parry and VW
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Issue 10 October 1997

  • Vaughan Williams and Finzi, by Stephen Banfield.
  • Vaughan Williams and Shakespeare, by Byron Adams
  • Coastal Command, in depth article on the film music by Richard Young
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Issues 11-20 (Feb 1998–Feb 2001)

Issue 11 February 1998

  • Focus on Gustav Holst
  • With an article by composer Colin Matthews and The thoughts of Sir Adrian Boult and Imogen Holst
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Issue 12 June 1998

  • 40th Anniversary of RVW’s death, Reprints of obituary notices and funeral service
  • Andrew Herbert’s detailed essay on the genesis of ‘The Explorers’ the forerunner of A Sea Symphony
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Issue 13 October 1998

  • Elsie M Payne on Vaughan Williams and Folk-song.
  • John Barr on the Six Studies in English Folk-song
  • Frank Dineen on The Priming of Miss Locksie
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Issue 14 February 1999

  • Lewis Foreman on The early response of British composers to Folk-song
  • Survey of RVW CD covers
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Issue 15 June 1999

  • Hubert Foss Thomas Hardy and Music
  • Alain Frogley – Hardy in the music of VW
  • David Trolley – On the trail of Tess
  • Ursula Vaughan Williams on VW and Thomas Hardy
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Issue 16 October 1999

  • VW and the First World War
  • VW as an Officer – Alan Aldous
  • RVW, Britten and The Great War – Roger Juneau
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Issue 17 February 2000

  • Recording of Five Mystical Songs – Jonathan Pearson
  • George Herbert and Arthur Vaughan Williams at Bemerton, Salisbury – Stephen Connock
  • VW as conductor – Lewis Foreman
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Issue 18 June 2000

  • VW and Bach – Michael Kennedy
  • Lewis Foreman – VW conducting the St Matthew Passion
  • VW and ‘the greatest of all composers’
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Issue 19 October 2000

  • A context for the Masques – Deborah Heckert
  • The Origins of Job – Sir Geoffrey Keynes
  • Sir Roger Norrington reviews Uncle Ralph’s St Matthew Passion
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Issue 20 February 2001

  • The Last Unknown Region: Polar Ambition or Pilgrimage – David Tolley
  • The Film music to Scott – Richard Young
  • The Early works – Bernard Benoliel
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Issues 21-30 (June 2001–June 2004)

Issue 21 June 2001

  • Sinfonia Antartica – Jonathan Pearson
  • The Music for ‘Scott of the Antarctic’ – Christopher J. Parke
  • ‘The Times’, and The Fourth Symphony – Geoff Brown
  • Atterberg, Sibelius and RVW’s Fifth Symphony – A letter translated for the RVW Society
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams & Alexander Constantinoich Glazunov – Rob Furneaux
  • Some Notes on A Pastoral Symphony – Jeffery Aldridge
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Issue 22 October 2001

  • The Symphony and the Second World War (with comparative CD review of Symphony No 5) – William Hedley
  • Salvage and the War Effort – Michael Gainsford
  • Ursula Vaughan Williams in Discussion with Stephen Connock about the Second World War
  • The Composer in Wartime – article reproduced from Heirs & Rebels
  • How about the Victory Anthem? – Stephen Johnson discusses relations between RVW and the BBC during World War II
  • Song of Thanksgiving – VW Celebrates the end of the war – Lewis Foreman
  • Music in Wartime – Simona Pakenham
  • Six Choral Songs (in time of war) – Stephen Connock
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Issue 23 February 2002

  • Articles by Anthony Boden and Pam Blevins
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Issue 24 June 2002

  • Conducting RVW – Michael Kennedy
  • Glory, Pity and Anger: British Conductors in the music of RVW – William Hedley
  • Malcolm Sargent, Vaughan Williams and the Ninth Symphony – Robin Barber
  • Stokowski and Vaughan Williams – Edward Johnson
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Issue 25 October 2002

  • Robert Louis Stevenson – A brief examination of the poet – William M Adams
  • Elements of Form and Unity in Songs of Travel
  • The Recordings – A comparitive analysis
  • Symphony No 9 – An Introduction and CD Review by Robin Barber
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Issue 26 February 2003

  • The Poisoned Kiss
  • From Polly to the Wasps: The musical context – Stephen Connock
  • “It will be alright in the end” The complex Evolution of the Libretto – Stephen Connock
  • Evelyn Sharp – writer and suffragette – Stehen Connock
  • Once upon a time…An anlysis of the opera – Stephen Connock
  • Uncle Ralph, Uncle Wiz and Benji – Jeffery Aldridge
  • The Pilgrim’s Progress in context: A preliminary study – Eric Seddon
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Issue 27 June 2003

  • Historical Introduction – Jeffrey Davis
  • Toward the Unknown Region – The Sixth Symphony – AEF Dickinson
  • The Holst Memorial Symphony? – Paul Sarcich
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Issue 28 October 2003

  • Elgar and Vaughan Williams: An Overview – Michael Kennedy
  • What have we learnt from Elgar? Vaughan Williams and the Ambivalance of Inheritance – Byron Adams
  • Variations on an Edwardian Enigma – Herbert Howells in 1968 writes on Elgar and VW in the context of two book reviews
  • Vaughan Williams brings in the May: Sydenham, 1911– Roger Savage
  • Mysticism and Joyful Solemnity: Two moments of D major in ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ – Eric Seddon
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Issue 29 February 2004

  • Vaughan Williams and the Hymnals – A New Perspective – John Bawden
  • Two Obscure Hymn Tunes of Ralph Vaughan Williams – John Barr
  • Hymn Tunes Descants 1915-1934 – Clark Kimberling, University of Evansvilles
  • Memories of RVW from the 1930s to the 1950s – John Gordan Clark
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Issue 30 June 2004

  • The Films of Powell and Pressburger – an overview – Rolf Jordan
  • RVW and the Women’s Institute – Lorna Gibson
  • RVW and the early 20th Century – EJ Hysom
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Issues 31-40 (June 2004–Oct 2007)
  • Issue 31 June 2004

    • What RVW means to me – members invited to write testimonials on ‘What RVW means to me’
    • Vaughan Williams and his film music for 49th Parallel – Richard Young
    • J.S. Bach, the Wintertide and the Poetics of translation in Hodie – Gregory Martin
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    Issue 32 February 2005

    • Michael Kennedy’s address to the 10th Anniversary AGM
    • Three Glorious Johns – Roger Savage
    • RVW – A Memoir by Sir John Barbirolli from 1958.
    • Reviews of Two VW Premieres: Sinfonia Antartica – Barbirolli and the Hallé
    • Manchester and Royal Festival Hall. Contemporary reviews
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    Issue 33 June 2005

    • RVW and Religion – John Barr
    • RVW and Religion – Byron Adams
    • RVW: What might have been – Colin Lees
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    Issue 34 October 2005

    • On playing the Tuba Concerto – Richard Sandland
    • Vaughan Williams and the British Piano Concerto – Luke Bromley
    • The Concertos [Violin Concertos and the Harmonica Romance]– Simona Pakenham
    • The unfinished Cello Concerto – Caireann Shannon
    • Constant Lambert and RVW – Stephen Lloyd
    • Fantasia on a theme by Vaughan Williams – Simona Pakenham
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    Issue 35 February 2006

    • Englishness and Vaughan Williams – James Day
    • Toward the Unknown Region and Dona Nobis Pacem Tony Williams
    • On Finzi…and on Whitman – Simona Pakenham
    • The Pilgrim’s Progress in California – Introduced by Alan Thayer
    • Heirs and Rebels (on Holst) – Em Marshall
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    Issue 36 June 2006

    • Listening to the Pastoral Symphony – David Manning
    • A new direction in Vaughan Wiilliams’ symphonic thinking Jeffrey Aldridge
    • The Grandeur of Desolation: A rumination on the Pastoral Symphony – Rolf Jordan
    • A clutch of “Favourite” Pastorals – Various
    • Beyond Wishful Thinking. A re-evaluation of Vaughan Williams and religion – Eric Seddon
    • Sir John in Love. A transcript of Michael Kennedy’s introduction to the opera at the ENO on Saturday 11th March 2006
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    Issue 37 October 2006

    • Articles on the Abinger Pagent and The Proms
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    Issue 38 March 2007

    • Vaughan Williams and Bunyan
    • Articles by Eric Seddon and Richard Brunson and a synopsis of the Elgar / VW symposium: “The Best of me”
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    Issue 39 June 2007

    • Major articles on the work and conducting it by John Barr and Adam Stern
    • Updated CD review by Robin Barber of all recordings available
    • Latest in the “footsteps” series by Stephen Connock
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    Issue 40 October 2007

    • Riders to the Sea
    • Launch of Albion Records the RVW Society recording arm.
    • Riders to the Sea – 3 important studies
    • Tony Palmer writes about his film O Thou Transcendent
    • James Day and Mass in G Minor and Sancta Civitas
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Issues 41-50 (Feb 2008–Feb 2011)
  • Issue 41 February 2008
    • From Over the Pond. RVW as seen by American music critics
    • Vaughan Williams Abroad Sir Roger Norrington’s View
    • RVW: Composer, Teacher and Evangelist – Simon Heffer
    • Exploring Vaughan Williams’ Writings – David Manning
    • Analysis Without Fear – Eric Seddon

    Issue 42 June 2008

    • The Song of Songs: an introduction – Cecil Bloom
    • Flos Campi the Enigma – Eric Seddon
    • Pop Goes the Music…. – Scott Aniol
    • Roy Douglas: A Century

    Issue 43 October 2008

    • Ursula, Charterhouse & O Thou Transcendent – D.R.Thorpe
    • Not in an Ivory Tower (VW, Holst & Morley College) – Linda Hayward
    • VW & the Oxford Bach Choir – Peter Gilliver

    Issue 44 February 2009

    • Remembering Ursula – Michael Kennedy
    • Vaughan Williams, Shakespeare and Sir John in Love – D.R. Thorpe
    • Stephen Connock remembers Richard Hickox
    • “Love to the Missus” Glimpses at the composer’s literary interests (books acquired by Stephen Connock and deemed of insufficient interest to grace the national collection)
    • Vaughan Williams, Stevenson, and Songs of Travel – Eric Hazlewood
    • Lionel Tertis’ 1936 Edition of Vaughan Williams’ Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra – Bernard Kane

    Issue 45 June 2009

    • Vaughan Williams, Cheyne Walk and the 1911 Census – Robin Barber
    • The Alchemy of Music and Landscape in Vaughan Williams’s Joanna Godden – John Morris
    • Where The Lark Does not Ascend – Allan W. Atlas

    Issue 46 October 2009

    • Vaughan Williams and the Idea of Folk Song in the Norfolk Rhapsodies – Anthony Newton
    • “An individual flowering”: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ work in Folklore – Georgina Boyes
    • Towards a folk song awakening: Vaughan Williams in Bournemouth, 1902 – Michael Holyoake
    • The Solo Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams: an Introduction – John Barr

    Issue 47 February 2010

    • Symphony No 8 in D minor: An Introduction and CD Review – Dr Robin Barber
    • New Light on I vow to Thee, my Country – Alan Gibbs

    Issue 48 June 2010

    • The Running Set – Roy J. Lidstone
    • On the Reception of the Tallis Fantasia, 1922-1929 – Allan W. Atlas

    Issue 49 October 2010

    • Vaughan Williams and the Musical Amateur: A checklist of English Carol Arrangements – Julian Onderdonk
    • Music is for Everyone – Linda Hayward
    • The Base of the Pyramid: Vaughan Williams and the Musical Amateur – Renee Stewart
    • A Significant Find (Cambridge Mass) – Alan Tongue
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams: Images In Art – Jeffery Davis
    • Vaughan Williams and Thomas Hardy – Michael Gainsford
    • Discovering Ralph Williams 1970s style – John France
    • Taken by Surprise – John Treadway

    Issue 50 February 2011

    • Simona Pakenham Obituary Stephen Connock
    • John Bridcut talks about “Passions”. A Journal interview
    • A Genius in the Making Linda Hayward
    • Vaughan Williams’s Pocket Watch – Robin Barber
    • Vaughan Williams and the Musical Amateur: A checklist of English Folk Song Arrangements Julian Onderdonk
    • A Fantasia and a Symphony: Herbert Howells on Vaughan Williams – Paul Andrews
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams and The Garden of Proserpine – Rikky Rooksby
    • A Century On – Simon Coombs
    • Music you Might Like. Frank Martin – Mass for Double Choir. An appreciation by William Hedley

     

Issues 51-60 (Jun 2011–June 2014)
  • Issue 51 June 2011
    • RVW – Music Teacher? Ralph Vaughan Williams’ view of his role as an educator of the young – Andrew Browning
    • Vaughan Williams and the Musical Amateur: A Checklist of Miscellaneous Arrangements of English, British and Continental European Dances and Songs – Julian Onderdonk
    • La Musique de Ralph Vaughan Williams et les Français – Marie-Béatrice Jeanjean
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams – Joy and Delight – Linda Hayward

    Issue 52 October 2011

    • Thirteen original tunes by Ralph Vaughan Williams for The English Hymnal and Songs of Praise – Hugh Benham
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams and Songs of Praise – Frank McManus
    • A Sea Symphony: The role of the Scherzo and its relationship to the other movements – Sophya Polevaya
    • Ursula Vaughan Williams on the Ninth Symphony
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams and the French – Marie-Béatrice Jeanjean
    • Howells on Vaughan Williams

    Issue 53 February 2012

    • “I love it beyond reason” – An interview with RVW Society President, Michael Kennedy CBE
    • Folk Song Identification in the Works of Vaughan Williams: Some Confusions – Adam Harvey
    • Thomas Cannings’s “Morgan Fantasy”: a tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams – Allan W. Atlas
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams, Leos Janacek and Jean Sibelius – James Lyon
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams and the two Surrey Pageants: The Abinger Pageant (1934) and England’s Pleasant Land (1938) – Renee Stewart

    Issue 54 June 2012

    • English Folk Songs and Other Traditional Tunes in the Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Checklist – Adam Harve
    • C. H. H. Parry and R. Vaughan Williams – James Lyon
      “To Marie Hall” – Hugh Thomas
    • The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust – Hugh Cobbe
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams and Oxford University Presss – William Hedley
    • The BBC, the Proms, and British Music – Roger Wright
    • A Century On – Phantasy Quintet – Simon Coombs

    Issue 55 October 2012

    • Music for solo organ by Ralph Vaughan Williams – Hugh Benham
    • The Sydney Manuscript. Vaughan Williams’s (unknown) orchestral setting of “The Spanish Ladies” – Simon Polson
    • A Bigger Splash, A lecture given at Hereford Three Choirs Festival, 23 July 201 – Rolf Jordan
    • C. H. H. Parry and R. Vaughan Williams -II – James Lyon
    • Vaughan Williams turns up in Somerset, then returns to Cheyne Walk as Job comes to Albion

    Issue 56 February 2013

    • Vaughan Williams and Oxford University Press – Simon Wright
    • The Pilgrim’s Progress in Progress – Stephen Connock
    • “Come hither, I wil show thee excellent things”: The Pilgrim’s Progress at ENO, November 2012 – John Francis
    • “A Notorioulsy Reluctant Sitter”- Colin Lees
    • Vaughan Williams returns to Chelsea – Peter Bull
    • How do you listen to Vaughan Williams? – Rob Furneaux

    Issue 57 June 2013

    • Unthemed
    • Some Notes on the Reception of Vaughan Williams: Three Quantative Measures – Allan W. Atlas
    • Folk Song in the English Folk Song Suite – Adam Harvey
    • Vaughan Williams: Serenade in A minor (1898): addendum to the published score – Julian Rushton
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams: Hymn Tune Prelude on “Song 13” by Orlando Gibbons – John France
    • Vaughan Williams and Bach’s St Matthew Passion – Renee Stewart

    Issue 58 October 2013

    • Music & Politics in 49th Parallel – John Morris
    • Vaughan Williams, Alfvén and Dohnényi – Rob Furneaux
    • A London Symphony: Justification for performing the original version – Graham Muncy
    • Vaughan Williams and Britten – John Treadway
    • To Complete or Not to Complete, that is the Question – Simon Coombs
    • Dawn Offensive (fiction) – Andrew M. Seddon

    Issue 59 February 2014

    • The copyright owner’s view – Hugh Cobbe, Director, The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust
    • The music publisher’s view – Simon Wright, Head of Rights & Contracts, Music, Oxford University Press
    • The Letter and the Spirit and Music in World War II – John Morris
    • To Record or Not to Record? Some thoughts on the performance and recording of Vaughan Williams’s early music and what might follow – Colin Lees
    • Vaughan Williams “on the air” in the Coronation year – Peter Foster
    • A London Symphony – Graham Muncy
    • A London Symphony: Some Remarks on Development – Mike Cooper
    • O for a Muse of Fire… Albion Records releases the incidental music from Henry V and Richard II – Stephen Connock
    • Issue 60 June 2014
      • Ralph Vaughan Williams and Olin Downes: Newly Uncovered Letters – Allan W. Atlas
      • The Reception of Hugh Bean’s Recording of The Lark Ascending – John France
      • The Lady in Question – Colin Lees
      • A Century On: Four Hymns for Tenor, Viola and Strings – Simon Coombs
      • Stars of the Night: Stephen Connock introduces Albion’s latest CD.
Issues 61-70 (October 2014–Oct 2017)
  • Issue 61 October 2014

    • Florent Schmitt and Ralph Vaughan Williams – an unknown friendship – Robin Barber
    • Who Were the Seven? – Linda Hayward
    • “Emotionally Undemonstrative” – Robin Wallington
    • My Day Out with Ralph – Jane Alexander
    • Your Record Collection in the 21st Century – John Francis
    • “Song of Peace from England”: the first performance in Germany of Dona Nobis Pacem – Raymond Calcraft

    Issue 62 February 2015

    • Songs of Travel: Irony in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “The Vagabond” – Adam Birke
    • Let Beauty Awake“, a guide to performance – Dominique McCormick
    • Song 9 and symmetry in Songs Of Travel – Nils Neubert
    • Arthur Foxton Ferguson: A Vaughan Williams Singer and Collaborator – Marcus DeLoach
    • Neglected Works: the Piano Concerto – Colin Lees
    • Another Day Out with Ralph: exploring his Westminster homes – Jane Alexander
    • Seventy-Five Years On – Simon Coombs
    • “Renowned be thy Grave” A tribute to Michael Kennedy – Stephen Connock

    Issue 63 June 2015

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Organ – John Francis
    • The Making of Bursts of Acclamation – John Francis
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams and Henry Ley – John Francis
    • Michael Kennedy and Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Mutual Gift of Friendship – Hugh Cobbe
    • A winter walk in the Surrey Hills: The “lost” estates of Trevelyan and Farrer – Jane Alexander
    • A Rediscovered Ralph Vaughan Williams manuscript – Wes Cameron
    • Some Thoughts on The Garden of Proserpine – Linda Hayward
    • Roy Douglas: an Appreciation – Stephen Connock

    Issue 64 October 2015

    • Origins and Early Years of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society – Dr Robin Barber
    • A Reappraisal of the Second Subject of the First Movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No.6 in E Minor – Christopher Gordon
    • The First Nowell – John Cook
    • Navigating the Woods: Getting to know Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Epithalamion – Andrea Covais
    • Vaughan Williams: The New York Obituaries – Allan Atlas
    • Composers in the Great War – Michael Gainsford
    • A letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams
    • Destiny’s Flight to 7.5 – Jane Alexander
    • Roy Douglas: an Appreciation – Stephen Connock

    Issue 65 February 2016

    • The Reception of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s In the Fen Country – John France
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams and Early Music – Tim Rayborn
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams on the Air, 1994-2015 – Peter Foster
    • Composers in the Great War Revisited – John Francis
    • Vaughan Williams and the Sonnet – Allan W. Atlas
    • The Momentous, Mysterious Magic of Midsummer – Jane Alexander

    Issue 66 June 2016

    • Vaughan Williams in Hamburg, 1938: A Brush with Nazi Germany In the Fen Country – Robin Barber
    • In the Footsteps of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Seatoller, Cumbria – John Whittaker
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams – a Country Gentleman – Jane Alexander
    • Exploring the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams via Downloads – Robert Davies

    Issue 67 October 2016

    • Vaughan Williams: Partita for Double String Orchestra (1947-8) – John France
    • Vaughan Williams’s Floscampi: Four “Practical” Questions – Allan Atlas
    • Vaughan Williams’s Vision for Amateur Music Making Lives On – Linda Hayward
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams, a personal reflection – Paul Paviour
    • The Raphaelites of Rottingdean – Jane Alexander
    • Robin Wells – Stephen Connock remembers

    Issue 68 February 2017

    • Hubert Foss on Vaughan Williams: a broadcast script – Introduced and edited by Simon Wright
    • The Homestead on Betsoms Hill – Jane Alexander
    • Tradition and Faith: Ralph Vaughan Williams and Joaquín Rodrigo – Raymond Calcraft
    • Some thoughts on Riders to the Sea – Robert Allan

    Issue 69 June 2017

    • Scott of the Antarctic: The complete surviving music edited into full score by Martin Yates and recorded by Dutton – Lewis Foreman
    • Is it Symphonic? Some thoughts on the critical reception of Vaughan Williams’s Sinfonia Antartica – Ryan Ross
    • “Lost” in Romney Marsh – Jane Alexander
    • Renée Stewart – Graham Muncy

    Issue 70 October 2017

    • Meanwhile Back at Home: The family life of Ralph Vaughan Williams – Hugh Cobbe
    • The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust: the Last Five Years – Hugh Cobbe
    • The Last Will and Testament – Introduced by Robin Barber
Issues 71-80 (Feb 2017–Feb 2021)
  • Issue 71 February 2018
    • Gathering Dreams John Francis, Alan Tongue and Ronald Grames explore Vaughan Williams’s music for Greek Plays
    • Evans, Owen, Parry, Prichard: Welsh Hymn Tunes in Works by Ralph Vaughan Williams – Robert Allen
    • The use of the Phonograph in collecting Folk Songs in Edwardian England – Tim Rayborn
    • Revisiting Sir Adrian Boult’s 1954 Recording of Job – John France
    • 75 Years On –  Simon Coombs

    Issue 72 June 2018

    • ‘Vaughan Williams and the Orchestra’: an article by Hubert Foss Introduced and edited by Simon Wright
    • The Wasps – Colin Lees
    • Vaughan Williams and the Brass Band – Tim Mutum
    • 75 Years On – Simon Coombs
    • Toward the Sun Rising: Ralph Vaughan Williams Remembered  – Stephen Connock introduces his new book of recollections and biographical notes

    Issue 73 October 2018

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams: In his Time – An Introduction – John Francis
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams: In his Time – The Vaughan Williams family and Uncle Roland – John Francis
    • Mary Lawson’s Memories of Vaughan Williams – Jim McGrath
    • Chosen Hill A place of magic and myth for Gerald Finzi and Ralph Vaughan Williams – Robin Barber
    • Vaughan Williams’s The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains: A Note on Proportions – Allan W. Atlas

    Issue 74 January 2019

    • Some Explorations of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s String Quartet (No.2) in A minor (‘For Jean on her Birthday’) – John France
    • A Question of Chronology – John Francis
    • Vaughan Williams’s Operatic Rebellion An investigation of the composer’s avoidance of stylistic cosmopolitanism in Hugh the Drover – Thomas Heywood
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams: In his Time – Wagner and his New Art – John Francis

    Issue 75 June 2019

    • The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains: A Pastoral Episode Vaughan Williams’s Secret Salute to the Fallen of the Great War? – Andrew Green
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams: not a pacifist, but … – Hugh Cobbe
    • Vaughan Williams and the Troubadours: When the Pretty Nightingale Sings – John Francis
    • An Internet journey – A Walk with RVW – Alistair Jones
    • Folk Songs of The Four Seasons – a new arrangement for mixed choir (SATB) John Whittaker
    • Recent developments in Vaughan Williams studies – David Manning
    • André Previn (1929-2019) – an appreciation – Robin Barber
    • Century On – Simon Coombs

    Issue 76 October 2019
    (RVW Society 25th Anniversary Issue)

    • ‘O farther sail’… Our beginning, our progress over the first twenty-five years, and a look to the future – (A personal note) Stephen Connock
    • The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society over the Years: A Personal Reflection – Linda Hayward
    • ‘A desirable end’: Vaughan Williams and the refugee relief effort of the 1930s and 1940s – Neil Wenborn
    • Some thoughts on A Pastoral Symphony – Robert Allen
    • Discovering the Suite of Six Short Pieces – Hugh Benham
    • Double Translation in Poetic Readings of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s ‘Whither Must I Wander’ – Alison Gilbert
    • Vaughan Williams, new Letters and some thoughts about the date of The House of Life – Allan W. Atlas
    • 75 Years On – Simon Coombs
    • The Ralph Vaughan Williams Exhibition at Leith Hill Place – Chris Batt

    Issue 77 February 2020

    • In his Time: the 1904 Song Cycles –  John Francis
    • Leith Hill Place: A Discovery about its Early History – Robert Page
    • A Dorking Friendship – Robert Field
    • Family Connections – William Spencer
    • The Premiere of Vaughan Williams’s Ninth Symphony – Robin Barber
    • Desert Island Discs – Simon Coombs
    • A Century On – Simon Coombs
    • Christopher ‘Kiffer’ Finzi An appreciation – Stephen Connock
    • Also: Letters, Concert Reviews, CD Reviews, Events

     


    Issue 78 June 2020

    • The strange case of A London Symphony and what George Butterworth actually did, or: With a little help from my friends
    • Leith Hill Place: A Discovery about its Early History – Phillip Brookes
    • Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Vision – William Hedley
    • Recording the Vaughan Williams symphonies – Andrew Keener
    • ‘I have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope’: the End of the Journey – John Francis
    • Sancta Civitas – A Performance and Recorded History – Bill Coley
    • The ‘Staffordshire’ Flourish Rediscovered – Graham Muncy
    • My Vaughan Williams Journey – Alan Tongue
    • Ignore or Explore? – P.J. Clulow on John Sykes
    • A Century On – Simon Coombs

    Issue 79 October 2020

    • Sir John Barbirolli, CH (1899-1970): ‘ Glorious John’ –  Andrew Neill
    • Vaughan Williams and the Hymnals: An American Perspective – Matthew Hoch
    • Herbert Francis Peyser: a New York music critic contra Vaughan Williams (1921-1923) – Allan W. Atlas
    • Vaughan Williams’s Violin Concerto: ‘A neglected gem’ – Bill Coley
    • The Lark Ascending: ‘Composed for Miss Marie Hall’ – Andrew Green
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Brewer of Gloucester Cathedral, and the Tallis Fantasia

    Issue 80 February 2021

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams in a Time of Coronavirus: What would he have done? – Andrew Browning
    • ‘Not intended for liturgical use’ – Vaughan Williams’s Magnificat and Benedicite – Bill Coley
    • In His Time: ‘Then we burst forth, we float’, 1905 to 1907 – John Francis
    • Cum Sancto Spiritu – Simon Coombs
    • A Century On – Simon Coombs
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Folk Song Arrangements – John Francis
Issues 81-90 (June 2021–)

Issue 81 June 2021

  • Vaughan Williams’s Adaptations of English Folk Songs – Peter Wood
  • Gervase Elwes (1866-1921) – John Francis
  • Vaughan Williams in his time The old wind in the old anger: On Wenlock Edge and the String Quartet in G minor – John Francis
  • A Moon Circling a Planet – Lord, Thou hast been our refuge – Andrew Green
  • A Common Chord – Robert Allan
  • Memories of the first complete Vaughan Williams symphony cycle, 1995 – Robin Barber
  • More Music you Might Like – Simon Coombs
  • 75 Years On – Simon Coombs

Issue 82 October 2021

  • Comparing approaches to the Book of Revelation in Vaughan Williams’s Sancta Civitas and Franz Schmidt’s  Tony Williams
  • ‘Word over all’: texts and harmonies in Dona Nobis Pacem – Ralph Woodward
  • Recordings of Vaughan Williams Hymns – Andrew M. Seddon
  • The White Plaster Bust on the Music Cabinet: Some Personal Reflections – Reverend Nigel Feaver
  • A Century On – Simon Coombs
  • Heirs and Successors – Simon Coombs
  • Obituaries: Joyce Kennedy & James Day – Andrew Neill & Jennifer Day

Issue 83 February 2022

  • Two major Vaughan Williams works for piano – Mark Bebbington
  • A Consideration of O vos omnes – Robert Allan
  • Making a Case for An Oxford Elegy – Mark Small
  • A Century On – Simon Coombs
  • CD Reviews
  • An Albion Records Update – John Francis

Issue 84 June 2022

  • Pan’s Anniversary: A Masque at One Time and Another – Roger Savage
  • Pan’s Anniversary and other premieres – John Francis
  • Mass in G minor, atheism and spirituality – James Day
  • The Duty of the Words: an Anniversary Celebration of Vaughan Williams’s Vocal Music by the Hampsong Foundation – John Tolansky
  • A Vaughan Williams Interview: Oscar Thompson, the Norfolk Music Festival, June 1922 – Allan W. Atlas
  • Seventy-five Years On – Simon Coombs
  • Music You Might Like – William Hedley
  • CD Reviews – Ronald E Grames

    Issue 85 October 2022
    Anniversary Issue

    • How shall I sing that majesty … – Nigel Feaver
    • ‘Don’t think me degenerate…’: The Influence of Landscape in Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 and In the Fen Country – Caroline Davison
    • Gustav Holst and Vaughan Williams’s Fourth Symphony – Bruno Lima
    • John Whittaker’s arrangement of Folk Songs of the Four Seasons – David A. McConnell
    • A Vaughan Williams Interview: Oscar Thompson, the Norfolk Music Festival, June 1922 – Allan W. Atlas
    • Music You Might Like – Steven Brocklehurst
    • A Century On – Simon Coombs
    • Letters
    • Concert Reviews
    • A new Critical Discography: Part 1 from Ronald Grames – Introduced by John Francis
    • CD Reviews
    • Book reviews
    • From The Chairman

    Issue 86 February 2023

    • The Vaughan Williams Memorial Window – Introduced by Thomas Denny
    • The Vision of Vaughan Williams – Rowan Williams
    • Vaughan Williams in his Time. Music and Comradeship – the Musical Festival Movement – John Francis
    • A One-Day Festival – Chris Cope
    • ‘A composer of genius but no talent’? Critiquing Vaughan Williams – Christopher Mark
    • Finding Vaughan Williams – Chris Batt
    • A Century On – Simon Coombs
    • Letters
    • Concert Reviews
    • CD Review
    • Book reviews
    • From The Chairman

    • Issue 87 June 2023

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams Sources at the British Library – Chris Scobie and Loukia Drosopoulou
    • A half-century with Vaughan Williams: from Centenary Exhibition by way of the Trusts to the Foundations  – Hugh Cobbe
    • Vaughan Williams and the Gramophone  – Stephen Connock
    • Vaughan Williams’s lyrical use of the horn – Robert Allan
    • Bronze by Gold: The Eight Labours of Ulysses – James Joyce, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sirens and the Art of Fugue  – John Francis 23-25
    • Seventy-five Years On – Simon Coombs
    • Letters 
    • Concert Reviews
    • CD Reviews 
    • Book Review
    • Not Forgotten; Remembered: Robert Ivison and The Vaughan Williams Memorial Window,
      Dr David Betts 1936-2022,
      Dr Christopher Batt OBE, 1947-2023
    • From the Chairman 

    Issue 88 October 2023

    • Vaughan Williams’s little known time in Saffron Walden in 1915 – Philip Parker
    • Sibelius and Vaughan Williams: Symphonic Synergies – Douglas Whittet
    • Memories from an Old Programme  – Andrew M. Seddon
    • Boult, Berg and Vaughan Williams – a Landmark Discovery – Jon Tolansky
    • Vaughan Williams in his Time John Francis
    • Music You Might Like – Doug Woodger
    • A Century On – Simon Coombs
    • Heirs and Successors – Simon Coombs
    • Letters
    • CD Reviews 
    • Book Reviews
    • From the Chairman

    Issue 89 February 2024

    • A Coming Man
    • Sixteen, we were Seventeen – Stephen Connock
    • Homage to Vaughan Williams – Francis Jackson (1917-2022)
    • Boult, Berg and Vaughan Williams – a Landmark Discovery – Jon Tolansky – Malcolm Riley
    • The South Place Sunday Popular Concerts – John Francis
    • Vaughan Williams’ Folk – Alex Bartholomew
    • Vaughan Williams and Maxwell Davies go to Antarctica – Stephen Threlfall 
    • A Century On – Simon Coombs
    • Heirs and Successors – Simon Coombs
    • Letters
    • Concert Reviews
    • CD Reviews 
    • The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society at 30 – John Francis
    • From the Chairman

     

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