THE LARK ASCENDING (performed as originally heard)

The full performance of 'The Lark Ascending' as it was originally heard, for violin and piano, and staged at Shirehampton Public Hall near Bristol where the piece was performed for the very first time in December 1920 - from the BBC4 documentary THE LARK ASCENDING (first shown 13/01/12) presented by Dame Diana Rigg

[@hobbyable1]

Man, every time I hear this I end up sobbing, its just so beautiful and moving, how can anyone be so gifted as to write something like this?

[@sheilabang3942]

Im shure Jesus, in his magnificent true love, indpired mr Vaughan Williams!!! I too cry.. missing both my parents.. 😫😭😥😥

[@kathytahiri9914]

How? Years and years of training and divine inspiration. When you can open up and hear the angels sing, then your hands know how to translate what you hear into the written language for others to recreate.

[@edwardianspice1]

My father’s favourite piece. Played at his funeral 😢

[@stuartkinzler3051]

In case anyone was wondering, that's JULIA HWANG performing. Remember than name; she's headed for fame and fortune with her incredible talent and poise.

[@ts13579_texas_usa]

Thanks for that, Stuart. The performance title/header at the top of the page is so VERY careful to tell us who the presenter is (some lady named Rigg). But the writer apparently does not consider the names of the performers, violinist and pianist, important enough to share those. Seems odd to say the least. But I am sure it's just me.

[@ruthmckay9086]

Thank you.

[@dallassolis8539]

Absolutely timeless. I played this once to an ex boyfriend who was going through a really hard time and for the first time in ages I saw a smile, a real smile and glimmer of hope behind his beautiful eyes. i don't know where he is now but i hope it still has the same effect on him when he needs it, just as it does on me... Thank you RVW ♥

[@andrian007]

One of my favourite pieces; I can never get sick of listening to this.

[@martinaddison9247]

I have been a fan of heavy rock music since the 1970's but that was a bit like throwing a stone in a pond and my love of music spread to many genre's. 40 years on and many, many hours of listening down the road, Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending is probably the most special piece I have ever had the joy of listening to. I love the Iona Brown version as a favourite. But this is wonderful rendition and as expected for great performances of this piece, brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for sharing this!

[@vincetan4220]

I was studying abroad and i remember i was heading home after a long day traveling the city. There's this long bridge about 20 minute walk and i was the only one walking there while hearing this song. I live alone and at that time i'm feeling lost, hurt and lonely. When i got home my grandma contacted me and asks for my condition and health, reminding me that she'll always be there caring and loving me. The thoughts of It ease me through. Because of the pandemic i was sent back to my homecountry and i am blessed to be able to spent almost a year with her until around october 2020 she suddenly passed away without any notice. Now, listening to this song reminds me of that moment on the bridge, of how i feel so alone and hurting but still knowing that she'll always be there caring. It makes me feel her presence for a moment.

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

Very talented musicians. And one of the most beautiful pieces ever by a British composer.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Centrist Philosopher そうだね‼️素晴らしいよね‼️さようなら。長いお別れです。さようなら。

[@brit1066]

Why the most beautiful by a BRITISH composer. You MEAN, BY ANY COMPOSER. the music of the great VW can stand comparison to any other composer who ever lived, no matter their nationality.

[@darrylschultz9311]

@@brit1066 Maybe he didn't write "by any composer" coz he's heard Eugen Cicero play "Exercise"!

[@rambler241]

Violin and piano, as written - full orchestra is intrusive for this sublime composition. Less is much, much, more.

[@ezgdisco]

This is just beautiful. I've always loved this piece with the full orchestra (ex. Sir Neville Mariner and the Academy of Saint Martin in The Fields with the legendary Iona Brown on violin) but this is even more exquisite.

[@kensyskye8965]

This was played at my beautiful friend’s funeral a week ago.....Lizzy, I shall miss you more than words can express but I will take comfort listening to this wonderful piece.....❤️

[@shin-i-chikozima]

It isn't possible to wish for any more performance . There is no dissatisfaction .

[@lbamm]

BEAUTIFUL! Awesome talent! The first time I heard this was in Childhood's End--as the commenter Eric Michael posted "What do we do with it?" "We leave it, for whoever passes through, so they can hear it."

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Larry Bannerman そうだね‼️素晴らしいよね‼️さようなら。長いお別れです。さようなら。Greetings from Japan . Sayonara！

[@paulyung3358]

I start loving classical music after I heard these piece by the two performers, thank you for doing that!

[@comadronasmith1209]

Heart-melting

[@clairejones5944]

This peice of music always makes me cry it's so beautiful,I can just imagine that lark climbing higher and higher in the sky

[@shin-i-chikozima]

あなたの素晴らしい投稿に感動しています。 I cried while listening to this masterpiece . Your contribution is wonderful , excellent , moving . From Tokyo in your imagination . Thank-you very much to your wonderful , excellent letter . So long ！

[@shin-i-chikozima]

あなたの素晴らしい投稿に感動しています❗ I cried while listening to this masterpiece . Your contribution is wonderful , excellent and tremendous . From Tokyo in your imagination . Thank-you very much to your wonderful and moving letter .

[@donaldmccormack7580]

This is absolutely stunning. I have heard various versions and always been moved by them but not as I am by this gorgeously haunting version. Thank you so much for transcending an old man and putting more quality into life.

[@660einzylinder]

Some years ago I was working for an undertaker. We had to do the funeral of a local school teacher. As we carried the coffin out of the church, one of his pupils played this, unaccompanied. She was also about fifteen. It was the only time I was unprofessional enough to have tears run down my face. Ten years on and I was involved in helping local farmers to encourage skylarks to nest in arable fields. Somewhere in the back of my mind this would be playing as I sat with a powerful 'scope monitoring the birds.

[@mindrolling24]

660einzylinder What a beautiful story!

[@jhorton4791]

660einzylinder I was listening to this at work but had to stop or I would have been in same state. It's like my heart is resonating to the strings of her violin.

[@dr.kim2111]

really beautiful.

[@bryseis2007]

That's just beautiful - thank you. Where I walk my dogs I hear a skylark every summer. I always just want to lie down and listen forever ❤️

[@dallassolis8539]

I was an undertaker for 10 years and we had the original played a few times, it will stay with me forever. What it meant to the families of the loved ones past and the recognition of the meaning of this beautiful piece. I come back to it often, even though those day of my career are long gone.

[@pennyburns4425]

Quite beautiful! Stunning! What a wonderful life for this super and gifted young lady! Thank you.xxx

[@stradMN]

I don't often get misty-eyed listening to music, unless it's this GOOD. Thank you, Julia Wang, BBC, et al.!

[@jonj160]

What the hell, that was beautiful.

[@sosobozo2850]

Vaughan Williams at his best and what a great performance from the young violinist! Piano was beautifully played too! I Love Williams fantasia a theme from Thomas Tallis.

[@MarkGoldfain]

Masterful performance, beautifully recorded. It is lovely to see the original idea of the piece! Perhaps the intimate venue setting is also correct for it's premiere performance. Thank you so much for posting this exquisite jewel.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Mark Goldfain そのとうりですよ‼️さようなら。長いお別れです。Greetings from Japan . Sayonara ！

[@joannekalvaitis3120]

gives me chills its so gorgeous

[@tonygumbrell22]

+Joanne Kalvaitis Ditto

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Joanne Kalvaitis そうだね‼️最高です‼️

[@stevenhernandez8966]

This piece was on my long run playlists when I was training for marathons years ago. The run, the music, nature, it was a much needed escape.

[@barberman5822]

just simply wonderful xxxxx.

[@insomniaholics]

We all sit alone at times, feeling the weight of existence, grasping for a glimpse, a glimmer of meaning in a world so heavy. "Am I alive?", we ask. For at least fourteen minutes and thirty two seconds, we can answer confidently from the deepest depth of our soul, "we are!"

[@operacrasher]

What a beautiful performance!! Brava!!

[@realgirl2704]

Music this beautiful makes you freeze to absorb every note, every sublime emotion. You have to let go and let it wash over you.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This young violinist has an exquisite sense！Cheer up ！ I sob with nostalgia.

[@TheDNAGroup]

You hear it-- SOOOOO much love for this little Lark #HeardAndFelt #GodFoundAComposer ))) #Love

[@paramma5616]

Thank you, Master.

[@jpa3930]

Just amazing, the music and the musiciens.For me the most moving interpretation I have even heard! Bravo!

[@Hypnobunny1]

Always makes me cry, just stunning thank you so much for sharing :))

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Hypnobunny1 あなたは心優しい人ですね‼️素晴らしい❗ありがとう。さようなら。長いお別れです。Greetings from Japan .Sayonara ！

[@nigelpearson6664]

One of the few recordings I've heard of anything where the space around the performers is as good as it can be. The building is 80% of that as is simple mixing if it is used at all. This non comersial string sound was almost caught by 78's. Somehow recording engineers ran away from if when they had better equipement. This team seem to have caught what they heard. Well done.

[@rajasinghamgeevaraju4412]

one of my heart touching soul

[@gddgffdg]

Great performance! I hope they record a studio version of this arrangement. I've been wanting one in my collection for a while.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Her play gives comfort and solace , and melts person,s anxiety and suffering , and purifies person,s stray mind .

[@georgealderson4424]

Beautifully said

[@shin-i-chikozima]

@@georgealderson4424 ありがとう❗お便り感謝しています‼️さようなら‼️ Thank-you very much to your best reply Take care of yourself Good luck 😄 Someday please come to Japan

[@georgealderson4424]

@@shin-i-chikozima 💜

[@shin-i-chikozima]

@@georgealderson4424 ありがとう❗お便り感謝しています‼️さようなら‼️🍎

[@georgealderson4424]

@@shin-i-chikozima Thank you for your message What dors it mean please?

[@rodrigoribeiro387]

Ralph Vaugham William really reached a divine level on this❤

[@spotonlevel5629]

Please listen to this piece of beauty, played perfectly, maybe, whilst watching the sunrise, a bird, even a lark may come your way. A wonderful moment, made complete by George Meredith, & Ralph Vaughan William. Thank you

[@bartloimiaj]

Beautiful. Gave me chills listening to this ♥ ♥

[@macgyvershe]

love never dies, this music tells me that.

[@haniffmohamoodally8528]

BEAUTIFUL, JUST SO BEAUTIFUL Stirs all the senses and touches your soul tothe core.,if music be the food of love, then give me more of it.

[@Mauser_.]

What a beautiful piece! Thanks for the video.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Mauser 本当に素晴らしい演奏です。さようなら。長いお別れです。Greetings from Japan .Sayonara！

[@HenJack-vl5cb]

Beautiful!

[@jsnider1965]

Just amazing.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

A skylark of the poetry of Meredith given an immortal life by splendid composition of Vaughan Williams , please eliminate the fear and anxiety of Covid - １９from the world due to this splendid performance she plays with exquisite skill and beautiful attire . From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

[@kevinbraidwood7487]

pure pure music

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Kevin Braidwood 素晴らしい演奏です。さようなら❗長いお別れです。Greetings from Japan . Sayonara！

[@lisalien9915]

So so beautiful !💕 prefer to it to an orchestra

[@julieburton192]

I agree!

[@differous01]

I had long imagined the movement at 6:21 to describe a couple of people wandering onto the landscape of the Lark, and the lark responding with agitation. That is the case here too except that the two instruments work throughout like two people in dialogue; the piano is the composer and the violin the student-as-muse, climbing the spiral stair to his room on the top floor, departing the same way at the end. Where an orchestra creates (in my mind, that is) an open landscape for the Lark, the piano evokes a homely. internal landscape. Instead of the bird flying beyond hearing, this narrative ends on the stilling of the composer's fluttering heart. [edit] The original violinist's name was Marie Hall and the finished piece is dedicated to her en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Hall

[@ajesco]

Love the page-turner in the back. In most of the shots he's shown in, he appears to be a floating head (wearing black against a black background).

[@lloydclement2152]

I saw a WW1 documentary film with this music and it had a special way of bringing history to my heart.

[@funkyhouse71]

I Love this. 💥❤️

[@DENavarro]

Remarkable, beautiful, enchanting, uplifting, exhilarating. . I walk the white river through the lush valley not with feet but eyes what mountain power

[@kimdoctor7834]

beautiful !!!

[@bubbajohn8131]

Classic at it's best.

[@ruthroeske1133]

Beautiful to hear and to see. Bravo!!

[@grahambellamy9611]

Oh my word...

[@rodolfosilva4410]

Thank you very mutch

[@simonhjc]

For me the larks flight is totally represented bybthe violin. Its how they fly for real. In this piano form, Vaughan Williams (in my view)has capture our lives on the ground. Its far better than with an orchestra imo. Ive have recorded “the vagabond” and have sat with scientists watching a lark ascend in shetland, before returning to camp to listen to this. Each time my emotion is drawn to that moment.

[@tectosagesx]

Es la primera vez que conozco esta interpretación, la he escuchado ocho veces: increíble interpretación; sólo dos voces y ella vuela, se detiene, se cierne y nos lleva a todos más allá de los límites de nuestras cortas perspectivas.

[@mrmcd6787]

Mus Tafá Hola Mus Tafa, My Espagnol is nada.... but, comprende 100% mi amigo, the solo playing makes it sound wonderful.... as you say, the best interpretation..... "Es la primera vez que conozco esta interpretacion".... Ci, Gracias

[@noelhall945]

Close your eyes, and you will see.

[@jpa244]

What to say?! Just beautiful!

[@davidj8065]

I think this is lovely!

[@erika7674]

Totally transporting.

[@stevenhernandez8966]

Beautiful.

[@jozefbohunicky9852]

you are so perfect Julia...Thank you so much. This is more beautiful an interesting with orchestra, bud you are so perfect....And you are only 15 years...Amazing sound..Play with orchestra The Lark ascending please..:) And pianist is wooooow very amazing..

[@simonhoulding4414]

Lovely interpretation

[@georgealderson4424]

Beautiful. Just a shame that the commentary did not finish before the performance began

[@althea691]

Remarkable

[@welshpete12]

So very beautiful, so very English !

[@LMFLCourses]

superb, Julia

[@RustyOrange71]

... who were the original players, the Vaughn Williams' violinist and the accompanying piano player and his page turner? And who are these wonderful musicians?

[@piano5163]

好听!!!!!!!

[@problemchimp4231]

Bean & Brown.....but this is also rather good ain't it?

[@erasuretim]

Anyone know where to buy a cd of this version? - just piano and violin as I much prefer it to the orchestrated version.

[@erasuretim]

A bit of googling and have found this: rvwsociety.com/stars-of-the-night/

[@philipthomas3629]

Use '2conv' and convert a youtube file to a file you can burn to CD. Can't find a CD to buy....

[@pauljones5066]

unbelievably good, thank you. What's her name please?

[@dr.kim2111]

julia hwang

[@differous01]

The artist laid the work aside For want of muse yet to inspire The flight that would from pasture ride In turning gyre, To reach that height of heart's desire. With keys of wood he'd paced the ground In office top of spiral stair Until he heard responding sound Of string under bow, Released to flow and hover in the air. Requested, she came And saw the aim the artist had intended Setting foot on bottom stair Rising, rising Round and round until the work was ended. And thus the Lark Ascended: The turning path o'er grounded call. And thus the Lark was dedicated To Marie Hall.

[@KT-ig2op]

10:23 Best part

[@fozziebumble8361]

Calgon....... take me away.

[@MTKarthik]

12:58

[@fendetestaspk]

The wihisper of God

[@renohuskerdu4592]

Why is there brit blather at the beginning? Just play the music.

[@QuocNguyen-nn5nv]

Mil stein Nathan pagani

[@chrisbaker9972]

Actually the performance was quite sublime with beauty as well! And a full, rich sound resonating across English moors and shores in the summer. But has 'Emma peel' had 'Botox'? Better than 'facial skin peeling'? Was the double gin and Campari soda on the rocks at the intermission not snuff? And how much does it cost to get a taxidermist to 'stuff' a whole audience like that? Almost, but not quite, lifelike! Cheers!

[@chrisbaker9972]

Me be too much wine but I had to stop watching this and appreciating this as I could not stand to see the expressions on the frozen faced patronising westerners in the audience! Was an excellent technical rendition with warmth and humanity

[@gordywestmids]

Chris Baker I take it you would have listened with an animated grin on your face - yes the audience was made up of British men and women, sitting on hard chairs in a village hall. That small group was lost in the music, music that echoed the landscape around them - then you stick you face in.

[@graham1964gb]

'Frozen faced patronising westerners' . God what a bunch of joyless, deluded bastards you SJWs are. You're one-track minds see 'oppression' in every little thing. Lighten up Mr. Virtue Signaller.

[@deegsSom]

Eh? Can you not see that they are all enchanted?

[@tttggg2751]

trying to finish her commentary while the music starts playing is like throwing paint at a Miró painting in a museum... knighthood should include training to respect the arts.

[@davedextermusic7129]

tttggg I doubt it's a live commentary, so "trying to finish" doesn't come into it. Someone made the decision that the piece didn't truly start until the violin so it could be talked over. It is indeed balls, but unlikely the fault of Diana Rigg (I assume that's the commentator)

[@lynnevenson7873]

The orchestra I play in is preparing this piece right now. It's one of the very, very few solo extravaganzas where the accompanying parts are as exquisite as the solo. This rendition is more stark (as close as RVW comes to stark), and in ways allows the soloist a clearer, more commanding presence. Delightfully hair-raising, and an absolute treat. I have to think the audience looks un-animated because they're afraid they'll miss something if they do anything rowdier than breathe. Pretty intimidating setting for the performers, too - up close and personal! Brava.

[@davedextermusic7129]

Lynn Evenson I went to my first orchestral concert recently; I had never realised that Brahms was arranged for "sweet being unwrapped stealthily over the course of three minutes". But then Brahms was an innovator.

[@slinkycowboy]

Lynn Evenson I think that's what a room full of people who feel humbled in the presence of the tune looks like . There are those few , as to be expected, that are just bodies , their minds and souls elsewhere

[@bobjlv]

Beautiful!

[@terraLiquidus]

"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 til 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 that overflows To lift us with him as he goes Until aloft on his aerial rings In light, then the fancy sings."

[@moonbeamchaos]

Oh, thank you -- I have known the music for over fifty years and never thought to wonder what inspired it! I've just read the entire poem, and it fits so well. Your précis was a delightful introduction.

[@guillermoramirez2673]

Beautiful!

[@RalphDratman]

660einzylinder -- Thank you so much for posting the beginning of that poem! I did not even know it existed. Here is the whole poem: The Lark Ascending George Meredith (1828-1909) 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, All intervolv’d and spreading wide, 5 Like water-dimples down a tide Where ripple ripple overcurls And eddy into eddy whirls; A press of hurried notes that run So fleet they scarce are more than one, 10 Yet changingly the trills repeat And linger ringing while they fleet, Sweet to the quick o’ the ear, and dear To her beyond the handmaid ear, Who sits beside our inner springs, 15 Too often dry for this he brings, Which seems the very jet of earth At sight of sun, her musci’s mirth, As up he wings the spiral stair, A song of light, and pierces air 20 With fountain ardor, fountain play, To reach the shining tops of day, And drink in everything discern’d An ecstasy to music turn’d, Impell’d by what his happy bill 25 Disperses; drinking, showering still, Unthinking save that he may give His voice the outlet, there to live Renew’d in endless notes of glee, So thirsty of his voice is he, 30 For all to hear and all to know That he is joy, awake, aglow, The tumult of the heart to hear Through pureness filter’d crystal-clear, And know the pleasure sprinkled bright 35 By simple singing of delight, Shrill, irreflective, unrestrain’d, Rapt, ringing, on the jet sustain’d Without a break, without a fall, Sweet-silvery, sheer lyrical, 40 Perennial, quavering up the chord Like myriad dews of sunny sward That trembling into fulness shine, And sparkle dropping argentine; Such wooing as the ear receives 45 From zephyr caught in choric leaves Of aspens when their chattering net Is flush’d to white with shivers wet; And such the water-spirit’s chime On mountain heights in morning’s prime, 50 Too freshly sweet to seem excess, Too animate to need a stress; But wider over many heads The starry voice ascending spreads, Awakening, as it waxes thin, 55 The best in us to him akin; And every face to watch him rais’d, Puts on the light of children prais’d, So rich our human pleasure ripes When sweetness on sincereness pipes, 60 Though nought be promis’d from the seas, But only a soft-ruffling breeze Sweep glittering on a still content, Serenity in ravishment. For singing till his heaven fills, 65 ’T is 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: 70 The woods and brooks, the sheep and kine He is, the hills, the human line, The meadows green, the fallows brown, The dreams of labor in the town; He sings the sap, the quicken’d veins; 75 The wedding song of sun and rains He is, the dance of children, thanks Of sowers, shout of primrose-banks, And eye of violets while they breathe; All these the circling song will wreathe, 80 And you shall hear the herb and tree, The better heart of men shall see, Shall feel celestially, as long As you crave nothing save the song. Was never voice of ours could say 85 Our inmost in the sweetest way, Like yonder voice aloft, and link All hearers in the song they drink: Our wisdom speaks from failing blood, Our passion is too full in flood, 90 We want the key of his wild note Of truthful in a tuneful throat, The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns 95 The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice. Yet men have we, whom we revere, Now names, and men still housing here, 100 Whose lives, by many a battle-dint Defaced, and grinding wheels on flint, Yield substance, though they sing not, sweet For song our highest heaven to greet: Whom heavenly singing gives us new, 105 Enspheres them brilliant in our blue, From firmest base to farthest leap, Because their love of Earth is deep, And they are warriors in accord With life to serve and pass reward, 110 So touching purest and so heard In the brain’s reflex of yon bird; Wherefore their soul in me, or mine, Through self-forgetfulness divine, In them, that song aloft maintains, 115 To fill the sky and thrill the plains With showerings drawn from human stores, As he to silence nearer soars, Extends the world at wings and dome, More spacious making more our home, 120 Till lost on his aërial rings In light, and then the fancy sings.

[@differous01]

The artist laid the work aside For want of muse yet to inspire The flight that would from pasture ride In turning gyre, To reach that height of heart's desire. With keys of wood he'd paced the ground In office top of spiral stair Until he heard responding sound Of string under bow, Released to flow and hover in the air. Requested, she came And saw the aim the artist had intended Setting foot on bottom stair Rising, rising Round and round until the work was ended. And thus the Lark Ascended: The turning path o'er grounded call. And thus the Lark was dedicated To Marie Hall.

[@clareandsophiesmum]

This is my first Father's Day without my father. My niece had made a 'playlist' that she played to him. She was playing it to him, my daughter was also playing frog sounds - he loved to sit outside, while music played as he listened to nature. As he died, this is what he was listening to. It felt so appropriate.

[@thegreenman4898]

Beautiful. People remarking on the audience being stuffed or dead are not used to adults able to concentrate on something for longer than a minute without shuffling, talking, or filming on their phones, and lets not forget the bane of all modern live concerts... the completely superfluous, whoop!, or ill timed "we love you!"

[@wendychadder1626]

the green man

[@davehshs651]

+the green man Perhaps some people are confusing the actual audience with the enlarged b&w photo placed weirdly behind the violinist.

[@richardlangellotti6208]

Oh, yes. I heard a performance of this by the North Carolina Symphony. The associate concertmaster was doing the solo part. Some shit-for-brains thought it was a great idea to bring their 2-year old rugrat to the concert, and the little shit acted up most vocally in all the best parts, thus ruining what would have been a pretty good performance. The idiot parents never took the kid out into the hall, either. It pretty well pissed me off.

[@Marcus538]

Well said , you have to be quiet to get something beautiful , i like raucous music , and this , you go to these concerts shut up, behave its not lady gaga . My daighter did fall asleep in oneguitar recital - started snoring , oh dear

[@youngwaif7321]

I didn't see stuffy people, I saw deeply moved, transfixed people. Some people just ain't got no cultuah.

[@quietstreams3799]

its beauty shakes me , tosses me around outside myself. i have seldon experienced a piece of music which so deeply moves me.

[@The80sBoy]

Such a beautifully paced and played performance. Both musicians are in total synchronisation, and it shows. The violin sound, so fragile yet full of life and spirit, swoops and sings, like a real free spirit. Doubly moving for me because in that very hall I started my musical training and had my own compositions performed there. Such a lovely, peaceful setting. Many, many, many happy memories. Thanks for uploading.

[@donhiorth5273]

When I close my eyes, I can touch that bird, and feel the breeze from it's wing on my face. There are pieces more magnificent, more dramatic, more epic. Nothing ever written, however, is more beautiful or evocative.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Don Hiorth そうだね‼️素晴らしいよね‼️

[@jhorton4791]

Don Hiorth YES

[@richbryce5006]

Funny, but Ralph's daughter said he wouldn't recognise a lark if it sat up and bit him, being a city dweller. But, what a glorious tune from England's finest.

[@ericmichel3857]

"What do we do with it?" "We leave it, for whoever passes through, so they can hear it."

[@displaychicken]

I was flying my spaceship through the Milky Way and picked this up on my radio! I wonder who used to live here?

[@simonwatts8338]

One of my least favourite Sci fi stories. Clarke's whole concept of this galactic mega intelligence, shutting down civilisations and destroying their planets and all life on them so it can harvest a telepathic generation to incorporate into it's own gestalt is just so wrong! Time to pull out mankind's galaxy buster bomb and wave it into mega mind's face! Clarke did like stories on humanity being forced into futures not of our own making by beings that knew better. He didn't even give Dave Bowman much choice in his destiny.

[@davehshs651]

+Simon Watts Clarke's mega being is just a creative scientist's variation on Jehovah, who damns humans for not conforming to his arbitrary rules. Like Thomas Hardy, Clarke saw a cruel, unjust universe and decided that "God" must be a cruel, self-centered being.

[@leighfamalia]

perfection

[@mikemaas5399]

Peter Matthiesen's "At Play in the Fields of the Lord"

[@cindyfrench3451]

I cry sometimes hard when I hear this. The most beautiful piece of music ever designed! And the violinist and pianist were superb!

[@91Kingscrib84]

Love that Diana Rigg is in the audience. Surely Emma Peel would have appreciated this too. ;-)

[@davidj8065]

Fifteen. Bloody hell. What talent.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

David J 驚きです‼️素晴らしいよね‼️さようなら。長いお別れです。さようなら。Greetings from Japan . Sayonara ！

[@shelleysanders9666]

She is a professional musician now! (Educated at Clifton College, Bristol U.K.).

[@nickwyatt3243]

I love my country, from the white cliffs to mountains and and lakes. This music speaks to me of the world we lost in England about 100 years ago. Better or worse; this was England at a point in time that will never return. Lark Ascending brings tears to my eyes.

[@isamuldn]

Completely agree. Vaughan Williams, Elgar and most recently Butterworth (The Banks of Green Willow) all evoke this country for me...

[@Adam-hi4mg]

A land of lost content.

[@sapper82]

The world we not so much lost, but had destroyed before our uncomprehending eyes. Burnt on a pyre of political correctness and Socialism.

[@goingmouch3753]

@@sapper82 And globalisation/ multiculturalism

[@wrestlingp]

Can't we enjoy the beautiful music and our great history without trying to bring politics into it?

[@garthyburnie]

Great performance! Good to hear this original with just piano accompaniment. What a pity Dame Diana Rigg speaks over the opening piano chords!

[@Oldwolf63]

I have the Album Subito by Julia Hwang & Charles Matthews with it on , i play it a lot in the Observatory .....

[@citrixman]

I am transformed when I experience this. It is by far a gift to be alive to hear this masterpiece. What a gift our species RVW was. He captures soleminity in this one masterpiece.