In 1906, Vaughan Williams stumbled across a melody that was already more than 300 years old. The tune, written by the Tudor composer Thomas Tallis for a 1567 psalter, was hiding in plain sight while Vaughan Williams was editing The English Hymnal. Several years later, he transformed it into the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, one of his most beloved works: a piece that blurs the boundaries between Renaissance England and the twentieth century.

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Vaughan Williams’s ‘Fantasia’ · London Mozart Players

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