Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending consistently tops polls as Britain’s favourite classical work, but what is the source of its enduring popularity? Steve Wright interviews writer and broadcaster Andrew Green about his Lark Ascending/Skylark recordings project for the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, in collaboration with the Wildlife Sound Recording Society and British Library’s Wildlife and Environmental Sounds Collection.

This episode is sponsored by Bang & Olufsen.

Musical Excerpt:

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending

Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin); Orchestra of the Swan/David Curtis

Signum Classics SIGCD399 (2014)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vaughan-Williams-Ascending-Concerto-Serenade-Introduction/dp/B00N7CM1U0

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