“The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.” Edward Elgar
There has always been a song sailing across the British Isles, from the early works of Thomas Tallis and Henry Purcell, through the classical period with William Boyce and Samuel Wesley, to the romantic Edward Elgar and Hubert Parry, into the twentieth century with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten and right up to today with John Rutter and Thomas Adès . Browse our sheet music and scores, explore British musical tradition, and click here for more British composers through the ages.