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Radio 3 in Concert: The Lark Ascending

The Lark Ascending

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The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Clemens Schuldt with violinist Jennifer Pike

Clemens Schuldt, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Jennifer Pike pair Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending with a Deborah Pritchard premiere inspired by east European larks.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Clemens Schuldt, and violinist Jennifer Pike pair Vaughan Williams's icon with a Deborah Pritchard premiere inspired by east-European larks.

In the shadow of the First World War, Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending sounded like a vision of peace. Deborah Pritchard’s Calandra evokes the same spirit in a 21st century context; it’s specially written for the radiant tone and poetic insight of soloist Jennifer Pike.

Calandra, says Pritchard represents a different kind of lark – “an Eastern European lark, symbolic of freedom, ascending without borders”. Like Vaughan Williams, Pritchard is responding to her time; but music can deal with turbulence as well as serenity and guest conductor Clemens Schuldt frames these two idylls with Britten’s volcanic Sinfonia da Requiem – a protest against the inhumanity of World War Two – and Strauss’s musical fantasy of triumph rising from the darkest tragedy. Strong emotions; ravishing sounds.

Presented by Hannah French 
Live from the Barbican Concert Hall, London 

Benjamin Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

20.00 Interval 

Deborah Pritchard: Calandra (BBC commission: world premiere)
Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration

Jennifer Pike (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Clemens Schuldt (conductor)

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