7
The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams · 1872–1958
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT
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- Type
- Concert piece
- Setting
- Orchestra (piano reduction)
- Length
- About 15 min
- Era
- 20th century
- Nationality
- British
- Exam lists
- ABRSM, Trinity, RCM, UIL
Notes
Pastoral rhapsody; unaccompanied cadenzas, control at pp
About this work
- Composed
- 1914 (revised 1920)
- Dedicated to
- Marie Pauline Hall
- First performed
- 1920/12/15 in Bristol, Shirehampton Public Hall (version for violin and piano); Marie Pauline Hall (violin), Geoffrey Mendham (piano) 1921/06/14 in London, Queen's Hall (version for violin and orchestra); Marie Pauline Hall (violin), British Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)
Exam & syllabus listings
ABRSM LRSM · ABRSM FRSM · Trinity FTCL · RCM ARCT · UIL Gr 1