THE LARK ASCENDING
100 years a er the first performance of Vaughan Williams’s masterpiece, Andrew Green explores its inspirations and cultural significance
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Featuring Iona Brown with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; plus Warlock’s The Curlew and works by Delius
PLUS! Jeremy Nicholas delves into the strange life of composer Cyril Scott; Paul Riley on artist Gustav Klimt’s extraordinary 1902 Beethoven Frieze; Jeremy Pound on the musical works inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses; plus John Allison on Hindemith and Claire Jackson on the best recordings of Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 1