Praeludium (Symphony No.5) - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), transcribed and performed by David Briggs on the 1888 Father Willis Organ of Truro Cathedral. Ralph Vaughan Williams completed his Fifth Symphony in 1943. It is, perhaps, the warmest of the nine symphonies, clearly influenced by the unfinished opera Pilgrim's Progress, and famously dedicated 'without permission' to Jean Sibelius. Written in wartime, it is described as expressing 'not mere resignation under disaster, but hope during

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