The Captain’s Apprentice – Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of Folk Song
Caroline Davison
Chatto & Windus 56pp (hb) £18.99
Caroline Davison has a thing about , the haunting folk song Vaughan Williams ‘collected’ from fisherman Duggie Carter at King’s Lynn in 1905. She goes so far as to claim that without this chance hearing, the composer’s subsequent composing history would have unfolded differently. Which is going a bit far; but to her immense credit Davison could hardly have done more to colour the song with
