Comment on He Wanted a Mountain, So — by Touch2Touch

This is the realm of extraordinary coincidences —
When your email arrived, I was just reading an old small (1941) book by Rumer Godden set in London in which one of the main characters is named Lark — the daughter of musicians and a singer herself — and named after, of course, the Vaughan Williams composition. So I clicked on your link, and — it didn’t work. So I browsed youtube and found another recording of it by Iona Brown, and indeed she is extraordinary.
(Frank just came in and I was telling him this tale unfolding, and he said Iona Brown! Of course! So there you have it.) To continue –
The Lark Ascending features powerfully in one of the best books about music I have ever read, Vikram Seth’s novel An Equal Music. If you haven’t read it — I heartily recommend it, although you may not like long novels. Anyway, it can be accompanied by a two disc selection of ALL the chamber music featured in the book (has to be bought separately). I don’t know which I love more, the book or the CD’s. Anyway, capping the story perfectly, I looked again at the CD to see who was playing The Lark Ascending, and it is — of course — Iona Brown.