Symphony No. 8 (Vaughan Williams) it with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, with the composer present in the Royal Box. Charles Munch conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s premiere of the work on 31 October 1957, at Symphony Hall. Ten more performances by the same team followed within three weeks in several cities. Symphony No. 8 (Vaughan Williams) Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 8 in D minor was composed between 1953 and 1955. It was the first of his symphonies which Vaughan Williams numbered. Sir John Barbirolli conducted the premiere of the piece on 2 May 1956, with the Hallé Orchestra. The
Symphony No. 6 (Vaughan Williams) symphony marks the beginning of Vaughan Williams's experiments with orchestration that so characterise his late music. The symphony is in four linked movements (i.e. one movement leads straight into the next, with no pause between them), and includes a number of ideas that return in various guises throughout the symphony, for example the use of simultaneous chords a half-step apart, or the short-short-long rhythmic figure. <score vorbis="1"> { \new PianoStaff « \new Staff \relative c" { \clef treble \numericTimeSignature \time 4/4 \key e \minor \tempo "Allegro" 4 = 100 f8--\ff g-- aes4->(~ \times 2/3 { aes8 g e) } \times