Antarctica: Vaughan Williams and Arvo Pärt

Exploration goes deep into the psyche. Vaughan Williams wrote a magnificent score for the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic, then transformed it into his 7th symphony, Sinfonia Antarctica five years later: a brooding work of genius. Man against implacable Nature had fascinated Vaughan Williams since the Sea Symphony of 1909 and his one-act opera of Synge’s Riders to the Sea in 1927.