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‘I’ve got to stop somewhere!’ How Steve Roud compiled his epic folk song archive

The former librarian has spent more than 50 years compiling the Roud Folk Song Index, cataloguing 25,000 traditional songs. So how did he do it? And what exactly is a folk song?

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‘A nonconformist with a conservative’s regard for tradition’: Ralph Vaughan Williams at 150

He has long been the nation’s favourite composer, but there’s more to him than The Lark. As he turns 150, it’s time to listen afresh to this radical traditionalist

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Sir John in Love review – young singers achieve excellence against the odds

The twee Vaughan Williams piece is a strange choice for a youth company – but BYO create an endlessly spirited performance

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Looking West/Philharmonia Baroque review – soaring ambition and vividly projected Handel

Julian Philips sklifully evokes the history and drama of the Cumbrian landscape while the PBO bookend a nicely contrasted new work with some vivacious arias

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The week in classical: Prom 14: CBSO/ Yamada; Prom 16: BBCNOW/ Manze; L’incoronazione di Poppea

Why do some Proms sound better in the Albert Hall and others at home on the radio? Elsewhere, Grimeborn gets off to a smouldering start

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Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet, Quartet and Trio review – a sister steps out of the shadows

Vibrant performances of works by the Mendelssohns prove Fanny’s chamber music can stand up alongside any of the period

The Guardian - UK

Prom 2: Sinfonia of London/Wilson review – an incisive and exciting celebration of British music

John Wilson’s orchestra launched the celebrations of Vaughan Williams’ centenary, gave a fresh account of the Enigma Variations and played music by Walton, Bax and Huw Watkins

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David Lloyd-Jones obituary

Founding conductor of Opera North and a champion of Russian operas and British symphonies

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Inside Queen's meetings with royal fans that changed everyday people's lives

Robbie Maiden, George Herbert Vaughan, Glenys Elrick and Eileen Dyke are among the Brits who met the Queen during the years while attending events, at school lunches or during hospice visits

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BBC Concert Orchestra/Martin Yates review – rumbustious Elgar a high point

English music festival programme of works by neglected composers left me thinking music this far into the hinterland should be left there

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra announces huge events for 2022/23 season

There's a wide range of events planned for the 2022/23 season

Liverpool Echo

BBC Proms 2022 highlights: the best concerts to book at the London festival, from the Gaming Prom to Yuja Wang

Our critic picks the best of a bumper crop of Proms gigs to book now

Evening Standard

The week in classical: Leipzig Gewandhaus/ Nelsons; Scottish Chamber Orchestra/ Manze

The earth all but moved as Andris Nelsons and the mighty Gewandhaus brought their Strauss Project to London

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Elizabeth Maconchy and Vaughan Williams; Castalian Quartet

An illustrious student-teacher double act is full of rewards; the Castalians illuminate in works spanning Beethoven to Adès; and two operas on BBC TV

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Classical home listening: Nicky Spence’s On Wenlock Edge; the Belcea Quartet

The Scottish tenor’s rousing take on Vaughan Williams’s AE Housman-inspired cycle; and the foursome-turned-sextet do justice to Brahms’s early works

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BBCPhil/Davis review – Vaughan Williams’ greatest orchestral works given power and brilliance

Continuing celebrations of the composer’s 150th anniversary saw Andrew Davis conduct the Fourth Symphony and pastel shades of the Job masque

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BBCSO/Brabbins: Scott of the Antarctic review – astonishing orchestration is superbly played

Vaughan Williams’s score performed as a live accompaniment to a beautifully restored print of the 1948 movie is incredibly powerful and at times extraordinarily moving

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: BBC Philharmonic/Wigglesworth; Sergei Babayan and Martha Argerich

Hope and humanity echo in Vaughan Williams’s anti-war symphonies, while Argerich and Babayan’s Prokofiev moves from breakneck to dreamlike

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BBCPhil/Wigglesworth review – Vaughan Williams celebrations open with style but not enough substance

A symphony cycle to mark the 150th anniversary of the English composer began with Mark Wigglesworth and the BBC Philharmonic bringing more questions than answers to the Third and the Fifth

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