Classical Music / Solo Violin and Orchestra
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams premiered in London in June 14, 1921. It's an orchestral romance for violin and orchestra. The music is inspired by a poem of 122 lines of the same name by the English poet George Meredith. It is about the song of the skylark. Siegfried Sassoon, English writer, poet and soldier, called it matchless of its kind, "a sustained lyric which never for a moment falls short of the effect aimed at, soars up and up with the song it imitates, and unites inspired spontaneity with a demonstration of effortless technical ingenuity... one has only to read the poem a few times to become aware of its perfection."
Vaughan Williams's beautiful music is now considered more widely known that the poem itself. He originally composed it in 1914 for violin and piano. It was revised in 1920, when the composer re-scored it for solo violin and orchestra, and a year later, premiered under the conductor Adrian Boult. Featuring a prominent solo violin part, the composition is intended to convey the lyrical and almost eternally English beauty of the scene in which a skylark rises into the heaven becoming almost invisible.
This version, now the more often performed of the two, premiered in 1921. The Lark Ascending is one of the most popular in the Classical repertoire among British listeners. In 2015, it ascended to ABC Classic FM 'Classic 100,' Swoon programme.
The video below is performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with David Nolan on violin and Vernon Handley conducting. (Picture: "The Cornfield", 1826, by John Constable)
Video Credit:
Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending. YouTube, uploaded by Richard Brittain. Accessed June 14, 2013.
Resource:
The Lark Ascending. en.wikipedia.org.
(c) June 2013. Updated June 14, 2016. Tel. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams premiered in London in June 14, 1921. It's an orchestral romance for violin and orchestra. The music is inspired by a poem of 122 lines of the same name by the English poet George Meredith. It is about the song of the skylark. Siegfried Sassoon, English writer, poet and soldier, called it matchless of its kind, "a sustained lyric which never for a moment falls short of the effect aimed at, soars up and up with the song it imitates, and unites inspired spontaneity with a demonstration of effortless technical ingenuity... one has only to read the poem a few times to become aware of its perfection."
Vaughan Williams's beautiful music is now considered more widely known that the poem itself. He originally composed it in 1914 for violin and piano. It was revised in 1920, when the composer re-scored it for solo violin and orchestra, and a year later, premiered under the conductor Adrian Boult. Featuring a prominent solo violin part, the composition is intended to convey the lyrical and almost eternally English beauty of the scene in which a skylark rises into the heaven becoming almost invisible.
This version, now the more often performed of the two, premiered in 1921. The Lark Ascending is one of the most popular in the Classical repertoire among British listeners. In 2015, it ascended to ABC Classic FM 'Classic 100,' Swoon programme.
The video below is performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with David Nolan on violin and Vernon Handley conducting. (Picture: "The Cornfield", 1826, by John Constable)
Video Credit:
Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending. YouTube, uploaded by Richard Brittain. Accessed June 14, 2013.
Resource:
The Lark Ascending. en.wikipedia.org.
(c) June 2013. Updated June 14, 2016. Tel. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
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