Ralph Vaughan Williams was a British composer who left us Symphonies, chamber music, and more. One of his moset well known works is The Lark Ascending, for violin and orchestra.
The Lark actually first became well known as a poem. It inspired the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams to write a musical work of the same name, which is now more widely known than the poem. He originally composed it in 1914 for violin and piano. It premiered in 1920, the same year the composer re-scored it for solo violin and orchestra.
Here is British violinist Nicola Benedetti playing a short e-cerpt for us:
