At 51, Sir William Walton stands second in England’s current trinity of famous composers. Less prolific than either 80-year-old Ralph Vaughan Williams or 39-year-old Benjamin Britten, he has turned ...

The sound of a busy port at the turn of the 19th century would probably have been deafening — lots of people, all bustling and shouting and trying to get where they need to go. A painting of that ...