Humankind finds solace and peace when in communion with nature and composers have long sought to express this connection in music. The solo violin of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending becomes the song and flight of the soaring bird. The third movement of Mahler’s expansive Third Symphony is titled “What the animals of the forest tell me” in which the deep woods resound to the encroaching of mankind, depicted by a distant post horn. The movement titles of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony famously convey the composer’s joy upon arrival in the country and the relation of the peasant folk to the land.
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