167K views · 1.9K shares | He rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound, of many links without a break, in chirrup, whistle, slur and shake. The incredible Tai Murray performing The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams. | BBC Proms | Facebook

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