The "Lento moderato" second movement of this composer's third symphony opens with a natural horn solo, and culminates in a trumpet cadenza over a pedal point in the strings.
The "Lento moderato" second movement of this composer's third symphony opens with a natural horn solo, and culminates in a trumpet cadenza over a pedal point in the strings. This composer specified that the "Landscape: Lento" third movement of another symphony must lead without pause into the fourth movement, which quotes Donne's "The Sun Rising." In that symphony by him, the fifth movement epilogue quotes the line "I do not regret this journey" from an (*) explorer's journal. This composer had a choir sing several Walt Whitman poems in his first symphony, and based his seventh symphony on music he composed for the film Scott of the Antarctic. A violin represents a bird from a George Meredith poem in this man's best-known piece. For 10 points, name this English composer of A Sea Symphony and The Lark Ascending.
The "Lento moderato" second movement of this composer's third symphony opens with a natural horn solo, and culminates in a trumpet cadenza over a pedal point in the strings.
Ralph Vaughan Williams 