Ralph Vaughan Williams completed this piece in 1914.
Hilary Hahn is the violinist in this 2017 performance.
Here are few of the lines from the poem which inspired V. Williams. . .
The Lark Ascending
He rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound, Of many links without a break, In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake.
For singing till his heaven fills, ‘Tis love of earth that he instils, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup And he the wine which overflows to lift us with him as he goes.
Till lost on his aerial rings In light, and then the fancy sings.
excerpted from the poem The Lark Ascending by George Meredith (1828-1909)
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