Article: Vaughan Williams: Sir John in Love

Article: Sir John need not fear the Italian job... ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  March 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... for giving Ralph Vaughan Williams's Falstaff opera, Sir John In Love, its first ... adore this. What Sir John In Love must plead ... few years back. Vaughan Williams's inspiration ... Verdi's Falstaff; Sir John In Love lacks the ...

Article: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Sky Shall Be Our Roof; Rare ...
Musical Opinion;  January 1, 2008 ;     455 words ...VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Sky Shall Be Our Roof; Rare songs ... 10 from Hugh the Drover; 2 from Sir John in Love; and 7 from The Pilgrim ... Records is an offshoot from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society and this, the label's first ...

Article: Letter: In time with a Vaughan Williams opera
The Independent - London;  November 24, 1996 ;     305 words ...In his perceptive critique of Vaughan Williams' delightful Sir John in Love, currently revived in concert, Michael ... Despite the enthusiastic response to Sir John, Vaughan Williams seemed pensive. He might have been wondering ...

Article: Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; ...
Sensible Sound;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... only because it's one of Vaughan Williams' most popular pieces ... it is perhaps the least Vaughan Williams-like and the least-familiar ... cannot afford the classic Vaughan Williams recordings by Sir John Barbirolli (EMI) or Sir ...

Article: ENO's Sir John in Love
Musical Opinion;  May 1, 2006 ;     669 words ... ... English National Opera to make its new production of Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love, the kind of crowd-puller that the ... attempt to infuse some dramatic impetus into Ralph Vaughan Williams' long neglected opera. It is nearly half a century ...

Article: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ... ... important piece in Vaughan Williams's development ... century English music. Vaughan Williams continued to write ... incorporates folk songs, and Sir John in Love (1929 ... In the latter work Vaughan Williams used the Elizabethan ...

Article: Classical Sir John in Love Emerson String Quartet
The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... ENO has alighted on Vaughan Williams's Sir John in Love, an opera ... some would say. Sir John falls a long way short ... glad to have seen Sir John - once - and urge ... boiling down the plot. Vaughan Williams, who constructed ...