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Note. Issues 1-4 edited by the late John Bishop, remainder by Stephen Connock. Change of style from the 'headlined' to a 'themed' Journal. All issues have a basic core of letters, reviews of recordings and concerts and society news.
February 2005 William Hedley appointed new editor.


 
  Issue 1 September 1994
Inaugural issue
Bowing ourselves in
In depth article by Michael Kennedy on VW's Christmas Music.

Issue 2 January 1995
Words in high places
10 page article by Wilfrid Mellers on the Opera Hugh the Drover and Lewis Foreman The unknown RVW – a matter for debate.

Issue 3 July 1995
Firing on all Cylinders
Gwyn Parry-Jones on The inner and outer worlds of RVW.

Issue 4 November 1995
A memorable day indeed
Report on our first AGM and concert.
Michael Kennedy article on the Piano Concerto.
Composer Steve Martland on the Sixth Symphony.
Interview with conductor, Richard Hickox on the Symphonies.

Issue 5 February 1996
Sir John in Love
Wilfrid Mellers on the opera Sir John in Love
Robin Wells writes about VW's alma mater, Charterhouse School.

Issue 6 June 1996
Igor Kennaway on the opera The Pilgrims Progress.
Steve Schwarz on The Fifth Symphony.

Issue 7 October 1996
Reminiscences of VW by Roy Henderson
Andrew Herbert, VW's Sketches for a Sea Symphony.

Issue 8 February 1997
Down Ampney Appeal fund launched.
Wilfrid Mellers on the neglected opera A Poisoned Kiss.

Issue 9 June 1997
Reminiscences of VW by John Carol Case
Interview with Leonard Slatkin.
Jeremy Dibble on Parry and VW

Issue 10 October 1997
Special 36 page 125th Anniversary Edition
Vaughan Williams and Finzi, by Stephen Banfield.
Vaughan Williams and Shakespeare, by Byron Adams.
Coastal Command, in depth article on the film music by Richard Young.

Issue 11 February 1998
Focus on Gustav Holst
with an article by composer, Colin Matthews and The thoughts of Sir Adrian Boult and Imogen Holst.

Issue 12 June 1998
Issue marking the 40th Anniversary of RVW's death
Reprints of obituary notices and funeral service.
Andrew Herbert's detailed essay on the genesis of 'The Explorers' the forerunner of A Sea Symphony.

Issue 13 October 1998
Folk Song Edition
Elsie M Payne on Vaughan Williams and Folk-song.
John Barr on the Six Studies in English Folk-song.
Frank Dineen on The Priming of Miss Locksie

Issue 14 February 1999
Garland Appeal
Folk-song Part 2

Lewis Foreman on The early response of British composers to Folk-song.
Survey of RVW CD covers

Issue 15 June 1999
Thomas Hardy Edition
Hubert Foss Thomas Hardy and Music
Alain Frogley – Hardy in the music of VW
David Trolley – On the trail of Tess
Ursula Vaughan Williams on VW and Thomas Hardy.

Issue 16 October 1999
Garland Launch
VW and the First World War
VW as an Officer – Alan Aldous
RVW, Britten and The Great War – Roger Juneau

Issue 17 February 2000
Focus on George Herbert
Recording of Five Mystical Songs – Jonathon Pearson
George Herbert and Arthur Vaughan Williams at Bemerton, Salisbury – Stephen Connock
VW as conductor – Lewis Foreman

Issue 18 June 2000
VW and Bach – Michael Kennedy
Lewis Foreman – VW conducting the St Matthew Passion
VW and 'the greatest of all composers'

Issue 19 October 2000
Job
A context for the Masques – Deborah Heckert
The Origins of Job – Sir Geoffrey Keynes
Sir Roger Norrington reviews Uncle Ralph’s St Matthew Passion

Issue 20 February 2001
Scott of the Antarctic – Part 1
The Last Unknown Region: Polar Ambition or Pilgrimage – David Tolley
The Film music to Scott – Richard Young
The Early works – Bernard Benoliel

Issue 21 June 2001
Scott of the Antarctic – Part 2
Sinfonia Antartica – Jonathan Pearson
The Music for Scott of the Antarctic – Christopher J. Parker
'The Times', and The Fourth Symphony – Geoff Brown
Atterberg, Sibelius and RVW's Fifth Symphony – A letter translated for the RVW Society
Ralph Vaughan Williams & Alexander Constantinoich Glazunov – Rob Furneaux
Some Notes on a Pastoral Symphony – Jeffery Aldridge

Issue 22 October 2001
RVW in the Second World War
The Symphony and the Second World War (with comparative CD review of Symphony No 5) – William Hedley
Salvage and the War Effort – Michael Gainsford
Ursula Vaughan Williams in Discussion with Stephen Connock about the Second World War
The Composer in Wartime – article reproduced from Heirs & Rebels
How about the Victory Anthem? – Stephen Johnson discusses relations between RVW and the BBC during World War II.
Song of Thanksgiving – VW Celebrates the end of the war – Lewis Foreman
Music in Wartime – Simona Pakenham
Six Choral Songs (in time of war) – Stephen Connock

Issue 23 February 2002
Focus on Ivor Gurney
Guest Editor: Rolf Jordan with articles by Anthony Boden and Pam Blevins.

Issue 24 June 2002
RVW and Distinguished Conductors
Conducting RVW – Michael Kennedy
Glory, Pity and Anger: British Conductors in the music of RVW – William Hedley
Malcolm Sargent, Vaughan Williams and the Ninth Symphony – Robin Barber
Stokowski and Vaughan Williams – Edward Johnson



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Issue 25 October 2002
The Songs of Travel
Guest Editor: Dr William Adams
Robert Louis Stevenson – A brief examination of the poet – William M Adams
Elements of Form and Unity in Songs of Travel
The Recordings – A comparitive analysis
Symphony No 9 – An Introduction and CD Review by Robin Barber

Issue 26 February 2003
The Poisoned Kiss
From Polly to the Wasps: The musical context – Stehen Connock
"It will be alright in the end" The complex Evolution of the Libretto – Stephen Connock
Evelyn Sharp – writer and suffragette – Stehen Connock
Once upon a time...An anlysis of the opera – Stephen Connock
Uncle Ralph, Uncle Wiz and Benji – Jeffery Aldridge
The Pilgrim's Progress in context: A preliminary study – Eric Seddon

Issue 27 June 2003
The Sixth Symphony
Historical Introduction – Jeffrey Davis
Toward the Unknown Region – The Sixth Symphony – AEF Dickinson
The Holst Memorial Symphony? – Paul Sarcich

Issue 28 October 2003
A Special Flame – Elgar and Vaughan Williams
Elgar and Vaughan Williams: An Overview – 
Michael Kennedy
What have we learnt from Elgar? Vaughan Williams and the Ambivalance of Inheritance – Byron Adams
Variations on an Edwardian Enigma – Herbert Howells in 1968 writes on Elgar and VW in the context of two book reviews.
Vaughan Williams brings in the May: Sydenham, 1911– Roger Savage
Mysticism and Joyful Solemnity: Two moments of D major in 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - Eric Seddon

Issue 29 February 2004
Hymn Tunes
Vaughan Williams and the Hymnals – A New Perspective
John Bawden
Two Obscure Hymn Tunes of Ralph Vaughan Williams - John Barr
John Bawden
Hymn Tunes Descants 1915-1934 - Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville
Memories of RVW from the 1930s to the 1950s
John Gordan Clark

Issue 30 June 2004
A Celebration for Ursula
The Films of Powell and Pressburger - an overview
Rolf Jordan
RVW and the Women's Institute - Lorna Gibson
RVW and the early 20th Century - EJ Hysom

Issue 31 June 2004
Tenth Anniversary Celebrations
What RVW means to me - members invited to write testimonials on 'What RVW means to me'.
Vaughan Williams and his film music for 49th Parallel - Richard Young
J.S. Bach, the Wintertide and the Poetics of translation in Hodie - Gregory Martin

Issue 32 February 2005
Michael Kennedy's address to the 10th Anniversary AGM
Three Glorious Johns - Roger Savage
RVW - A Memoir by Sir John Barbirolli from 1958.
Reviews of Two VW Premieres: Sinfonia Antartica - Barbirolli and the Halle Manchester and Royal Festival Hall. Contemporary reviews

Issue 33 June 2005
VW and Religion
RVW and Religion - John Barr
RVW and Religion - Byron Adams
RVW: What might have been - Colin Lees

Issue 34 October 2005
Concertos
On playing the Tuba Concerto - Richard Sandland
Vaughan Williams and the British Piano Concerto - Luke Bromley
The Concertos [Violin Concertos and the harmonica Romance]- Simona Pakenham
The unfinished Cello Concert - Caireann Shannon
Constant Lambert and RVW - Stephen Lloyd
Fantasia on a theme by Vaughan Williasm - Simona Pakenham

Issue 35 February 2006
Englishness and Vaughan Williams - James Day
Toward the Unknown Region and Dona Nobis Pacem Tony Williams
On Finzi...and on Whitman - Simona Pakenham
The Pilgrim's Progress in California - Introduced by Alan Thayer
Heirs and Rebels (on Holst) - Em Marshall

Issue 36 June 2006
Symphony No 3
Listening to the Pastoral Symphony - David Manning
A new direction in Vaughan Wiilliams' symphonic thinking Jeffrey Aldridge
The Grandeur of Desolation: A rumination on the Pastoral Symphony - Rolf Jordan
A clutch of "Favourite" Pastorals -
Various
Beyond Wishful Thinking. A re-evaluation of Vaughan Williams and religion - Eric Seddon
Sir John in Love. A transcript of Michael Kennedy's introduction to the opera at the ENO on Saturday 11th March 2006

Issue 37 October 2006
Symphony No 3
Articles on the Abinger Pagent and The Proms

Issue 38 March 2007
Vaughan Williams and Bunyan
Articles by Eric Seddon and Richard Brunson and a synopsis
of the Elgar- VW symposium: "
The Best of me"

Issue 39 June 2007
Focus on the 9th Symphony
Major articles on the work and conducting it by John Barr and Adam Stern.
Updated CD review by Robin Barber of all recordings available.
Latest in the "footsteps" series by Stephen
Connock.

Issue 40 October 2007
Riders to the Sea
Launch of Albion Records the RVW Society recording arm.
Riders to the Sea – 3 important studies.
Tony Palmer writes about his film "O Thou Transcendent".
James Day and Mass in G Minor and Sancta Civitas

Issue 41 February 2008
RVW and the International Scene
From Over the Pond. RVW as seen by American music Critics.
Vaughan Williams Abroad Sir Roger Norrington's View
RVW: Composer, Teacher and Evangelist Simon Heffer