An early work by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is to be performed for the first time after being spotted in an exhibition at Cambridge University Library. The score of A Cambridge Mass was written by Vaughan Williams for his doctoral examination and has never been heard. It has been in the safe-keeping of Cambridge University Library for more than 100 years. Vaughan Williams studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the 1890s. Here short excerpts of A Cambridge Mass are played at Trinity by 20-year-old Kausikan Rajeshkumar, currently a final year music student at the college. A Cambridge Mass has been transcribed from the original score by Alan Tongue who will conduct it at a concert next year. He first saw the score in an exhibition of manuscripts at Cambridge in 2007. The score of A Cambridge Mass will be published by Stainer & Bell Ltd in 2011. Excerpts played with kind permission of Stainer & Bell.
