Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Sina Kloke (piano), Jennifer Pike (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salvatore Di Vittorio
With so many recordings of The Lark Ascending available, a new one has to offer something special to soar clear of the crowd. Jennifer Pike’s playing – at once forthright and beautifully yearning,...
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Sina Kloke (piano), Jennifer Pike (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salvatore Di Vittorio
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With so many recordings of The Lark Ascending available, a new one has to offer something special to soar clear of the crowd. Jennifer Pike’s playing – at once forthright and beautifully yearning,...
About
Vaughan Williams withdrew or destroyed many works from his earliest period, but he considered The Solent, with its haunting opening and luminous polyphonic textures, as among his ‘most important works’. The Fantasia is his earliest known piece for solo instrument with orchestra and contains some of his most bravura writing, contrasting with the graceful geniality of the Suite. Depicting a sublimely pastoral scene and now one of the best loved pieces ever written, Vaughan Williams called The Lark Ascending a ‘romance’, a term reserved for his most profoundly lyrical works.
Contents and tracklist
- Chamber Orchestra of New York
- Salvatore Di Vittorio
- Sina Kloke
- Chamber Orchestra of New York
- Salvatore Di Vittorio
- Sina Kloke
- Jennifer Pike
- Chamber Orchestra of New York
- Salvatore Di Vittorio
Awards and reviews
February 2017
With so many recordings of The Lark Ascending available, a new one has to offer something special to soar clear of the crowd. Jennifer Pike’s playing – at once forthright and beautifully yearning, with technique to match – puts her contribution into that category…[in a Vaughan Williams rarity] the Fantasia for piano and orchestra, Sina Kloke’s delivery of the solo part keeps the music’s clunky sturdiness under stylish control
February 2017
Sina Kloke plays with agreeable discernment and assurance both [in the Suite] and in the early Fantasia…Di Vittorio and his Chamber Orchestra of New York tender spirited support…in The Lark Ascending Jennifer Pike soars aloft most bewitchingly and is ably partnered by Di Vittorio and company
16th January 2017
Excellent playing which reflects a great sympathy towards English music by this New York orchestra.
April 2017
The young players of the Chamber Orchestra of New York then come into their own with some fine solo playing, particularly from the flute, as Pike pirouettes lissomly around them…her playing is clean and fluent, each note perfectly focused and placed. Her double-stopped allargando phrases weaving down in 5ths (mostly) are magical. She has the gift of making time stand still, even as the music flows forwards.
