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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Fiona Maddocks

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

Elizabeth Maconchy in 1925.
Elizabeth Maconchy in 1925. Photograph: PR

• This year’s 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth has prompted welcome pairings of his music with some of his composer associates. Among his most gifted students was Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-94), who praised his inspirational teaching not for technical instruction but for pushing her to the highest artistic ideals and banishing all risk of “cheap effects”.

Maconchy & Vaughan Williams: Songs, Volume 1
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