The Passions of Vaughan Williams

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The Passions of Vaughan Williams

2008

1h 30m

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Fifty years after his death, this musical and psychological portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams explores the passions that drove a giant of 20th-century English music.

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John Bridcut

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Ursula Vaughan Williams

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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