REPRINT SERIES  Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 1 is formally titled A Sea Symphony. It was composed between 1903 and 1909, first performed at the Leeds Festival on 12 October 1910, and is a large-scale choral symphony for soprano, baritone,...

Five Tudor Portraits (1935), by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is a work scored for contralto (or mezzo-soprano), baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra. It sets several poems, or extracts from poems, by the 15th/16th-century poet John Skelton, portraying five...

Dona nobis pacem (English: Grant us peace) is a cantata written by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1936 and first performed on 2 October of that year. The work was commissioned to mark the centenary of the Huddersfield Choral Society. Vaughan Williams produced...