Music Feature

Soul Music

Tuesday 7 March 2006 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Repeated: Saturday 11 March 2006 15:30-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)

The series about music that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

A hymn that has recently attracted controversy for its patriotism, I Vow to Thee My Country was born just after the First World War. Vaughn Williams had the inspirational idea to put together the stirring music from Holst's Jupiter movement and the poem written by American ambassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, which was found on his desk when he left office.

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