Flying high! The Lark Ascending is our favourite piece of classical music once again as it tops Classic FM poll after being edged out last year Ralph Vaughan Williams's 15-minute work has returned to No 1 on Classic FM Hall Of Fame poll gave The Lark Ascending top spot after it fell to third last year Composition was inspired by poem of the same name by George Meredith
By Daily Mail Reporter
Published: 00:53 BST, 23 April 2019 | Updated: 02:52 BST, 23 April 2019
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After being pushed down to third place a year ago, The Lark Ascending has regained the title of Britain’s favourite piece of classical music.
Ralph Vaughan Williams’s 15-minute work has returned to No 1 on the Classic FM Hall Of Fame poll after being displaced last year by Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2.
The composition was inspired by a poem of the same name by George Meredith. In 1914, Vaughan Williams
