http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/desmond_shawe-taylor en http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/06/vaughan-williams-music-english http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/06/vaughan-williams-music-english Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:24:21 GMT Desmond Shawe-Taylor Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of England's greatest 20th-century composers: his Lark Ascending was recently voted the nation's favourite piece of music. Much of Vaughan Williams's output was influenced by the English folk music tradition, but his finest works - according to the New Statesman's music critic at the time of his death 50 years ago - were his Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, which very much reflected the spirit of his age

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