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A ‘lost’ Vaughan Williams song is exciting news but what else remains to be ‘found’?

All kinds of musical riches by formerly overlooked composers may be languishing in lofts and dusty archives.

The discovery of a new work by Ralph Vaughan Williams has set the world alight this week. Well, not quite, but it’s a great story. In a box in the archives of London’s Morley College Elaine Andrews came across a previously unknown Vaughan Williams song. Titled Before the Mirror, it sets a Swinburne poem that itself was inspired by a Whistler painting.

Hearing it played on Radio 4’s PM on Monday [58 mins in] reveals music of surprising tonal adventure and expressive ambiguity, written shortly after Vaughan Williams married Adeline Fisher in 1897. And the manuscript’s workings, its crossings-out and corrections, are a fascinating insight into Vaughan Williams’s creative process.

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A ‘lost’ Vaughan Williams song is exciting news but what else remains to be ‘found’? Classical music May 13, 2026 A ‘lost’ Vaughan Williams song is exciting news but what else remains to be ‘found’? All kinds of musical riches by formerly overlooked composers may be languishing in lofts and dusty archives. The discovery of a new work by Ralph Vaughan Williams has set the world alight this week. Well, not quite, b...
A ‘lost’ Vaughan Williams song is exciting news but what else remains to be ‘found’?

All kinds of musical riches by formerly overlooked composers may be languishing in lofts and dusty archives. The discovery of a new work by Ralph Vaughan Williams has set the world alight this week. Well, not quite, b...

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