The Lark Ascending is just exquisite ❤️ Performed here by Julia Hwang and Charles Matthews, Vaughan Williams' piece premiered on this day in 1920. | Classic FM

Wait for the music's final moments... almost unbearably, poignantly atmospheric and 'hovering on the brink of an abyss'. The Lark Ascending, written by Ralph Vaughan Williams on the eve of Europe's Great War, played here by Zoë Beyers and BBC Philharmonic. This radical, visionary work can be savoured in full, Sunday 4 June at 8pm on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer. In the concert, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, Vaughan Williams is followed by Elgar’s Symphony No. 2, a

It's one of the most popular pieces of classical music ever composed, 'The Lark Ascending' by the English composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams. He composed it on a piano which today was returned to his childhood home at Leith Hill in Surrey bbc.in/1QRJOrt | BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight