Vaughan Williams’ “Lark” Wins Poll

Listeners to the UK’s Classic FM radio station have voted Vaughan Williams’s work Lark Ascending the most popular piece of British classical music. “Edward Elgar came second and third with Cello Concerto in E minor and then Variations on an Original Theme. Welshman Karl Jenkins – the only living composer in the top 10 – was fourth with The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace.”