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An edited version of a talk entitled the Great Bourgeois, one the composer gave in July 1950 when he was 77. In it Vaughan Williams talks about Bach, his own reputation at that time, how his music should be performed and how Bach belongs to all of us.
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Mon 25 Aug 2008
23:00
BBC Radio 3
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