Simon Heffer

Vaughan Williams’s genius is now beyond dispute

His towering position as a composer, not only in Britain but internationally, is at last secure, as Eric Saylor’s biography demonstrates

Ralph Vaughan Williams: composer, teacher, philanthropist and folk-song collector. [Getty Images]
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  • Vaughan Williams

    Eric Saylor

    OUP, pp. 336, £22

  • The Captain’s Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song

    Caroline Davison

    Chatto & Windus, pp. 400, £20

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