Symphony no. 2 "London" / The Lark Ascending

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Barry Griffiths & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & André Previn

Symphony No. 2 "A London" / The Lark Ascending is an album of orchestral works by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, comprising pieces originally composed in 1912–1914 and 1914 respectively. The music contrasts a broad, urban-inflected symphonic canvas with a lyrical, violin-centred pastoral piece, illustrating Vaughan Williams's use of modal harmony, folk-influenced melodic writing and expansive orchestration and occupying a key place in his development of an English orchestral idiom.

Symphony no. 2 "London" / The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams - album cover

First released: 1987

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Symphony no. 2, "London": I. Lento; Allegro Risoluto
15:26
2.
Symphony no. 2, "London": II. Lento
12:12
3.
Symphony no. 2, "London": III. Scherzo (Nocturne), Allegro Vivace
7:38
4.
Symphony no. 2, "London": IV. Andante con Moto; Maestoso all Marcia (Quasi Lento)
13:42
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The Lark Ascending
14:20