The Lark Ascending

Arranged for solo violin, string quartet, triangle, and string orchestra/quintet

Conductor's score and parts on hire

Forces or Category: solo violin, string quartet, triangle, & string orchestra/quintet

Orchestration: string quartet, triangle, string orchestra/quintet

Vaughan Williams's masterpiece is given an evocative flavour in this new arrangement for string orchestra by Adam Johnson. Scored for solo ...

The Lark Ascending

Arranged for solo violin, string quartet, triangle, and string orchestra/quintet

Conductor's score and parts on hire

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Arranged by Adam Johnson

Description

Vaughan Williams's masterpiece is given an evocative flavour in this new arrangement for string orchestra by Adam Johnson. Scored for solo violin, string quartet, triangle, and string orchestra/quintet, this version provides an effective alternative to the original.

The Lark Ascending

Arranged for solo violin, string quartet, triangle, and string orchestra/quintet

Conductor's score and parts on hire

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Arranged by Adam Johnson

Composer Information

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Arranged by Adam Johnson

Ralph Vaughan Williams, born in Gloucestershire on 12 October 1872, read History at Cambridge and went to the Royal College of Music where his teachers were Parry, Wood, and Stanford. Vaughan Williams believed in the value of music education and wrote practical competition pieces, serviceable church music, and with the 49th Parallel (1940-41) he found a new outlet in writing for film. His profoundly disturbing Symphony No.6 (1948) received international acclaim with more than a hundred performances in a little over two years. His great sensitivity to the 20th-century human condition, his flexibility in writing for all levels of music making, and his unquestionably great imagination combine to make him one of the key figures in 20th century music. Ralph Vaughan Williams had a long association with Oxford University Press; over 200 publications are available in the Oxford catalogue.

The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society