One of Britain’s most popular works, evoking images of a pastoral idyll and a soaring skylark is an unlikely war work. Composed originally for piano and violin the work captures the tranquillity ...

before achieving even greater praise for A London Symphony. During the First World War Ralph volunteered himself into army life until the armistice when he was appointed director of music for the ...

It achieves an impassioned nobility and approaches serenity at the end, but something ghostly (it walks again in the Epilogue to the Sixth Symphony) refuses to be exorcised until the beautiful calm ...