Vaughan Williams & Elgar: The Lark Ascending; Tallis Fantasia...

Everything I ever wanted to do on the fiddle I could do in this music. I just felt so completely at home, in every sense... Starting to conduct this music was even more amazing - Pinchas Zukerman.

Pinchas Zukerman returns to The Lark Ascending for the first time on record in over forty years in a magical performance with the orchestra of which he is Principal Guest Conductor: the Royal Philharmonic, founded 70 years ago by Sir Thomas Beecham.

Zukerman plays and conducts a definitive collection of the best in English music: Vaughan Williams Tallis Fantasia and Elgars Introduction & Allegro and Serenade for Strings frame shorter works such as Salut d amour, Chanson de Matin and Chanson de Nuit.

Includes the world premiere recording of In Moonlight: an arrangement for solo viola, strings and harp of Elgars famous Canto Popolare.

It was in the London of the late 1960s that Zukermans love affair with English music began. Befriended by Jacqueline du Pré and Sir John Barbirolli he discovered a natural affinity with the music of Elgar and its world of nobilmente.

This album made in Londons Cadogan Hall celebrates Zukermans lifelong love of this sublimely moving music.