The Lark Ascending

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams

The Lark Ascending is a pastoral romance for violin and orchestra by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, first performed in 1920. The work has a long, lyrical solo violin line over restrained orchestral textures and uses modal harmony and folk-influenced melodies, and it sits within Vaughan Williams's interest in English pastoral style and folk material in the early 20th century.

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  1. 1.
    The Lark Ascending
    16:04
  2. 2.
    Fantasia on Greensleeves
    4:31
  3. 3.
    English Folk Song Suite: I. March (Seventeen Come Sunday)
    3:21
  4. 4.
    English Folk Song Suite: II. Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy)
    3:19
  5. 5.
    English Folk Song Suite: III. March (Folk Songs From Somerset)
    3:57
  6. 6.
    Norfolk Rhapsody no. 1
    10:52
  7. 7.
    The Wasps Overture
    9:07
  8. 8.
    Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus”
    13:11
  9. 9.
    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
    14:21

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