Recognised as one of the major musical figures of his time, Ralph Vaughan Williams' incidental music for Gilbert Murray's English translation of Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris is now available for purchase. A preview of the production appearing in The Globe remarked of Vaughan Williams' musical setting: "This music is no experiment in style. It would seem, rather, as though the composer had disclaimed all styles and all schools, and found direct inspiration in the material of the poet's inspiration, and the result is something of undeniable beauty."
Ralph Vaughan Williams is recognised as one of the major musical figures of his time. He began his career as a folk song collector, music editor of The English Hymnal (1906) and founding conductor of the Leith Hill Festival—a post he maintained for over fifty years. Vaughan William's vast musical output includes song settings, symphonies, chamber music, opera and choral music. At the heart of his creativity lie a sequence of nine symphonies that move from meditative pastoral music to themes of existential dramas.
