This short, rhythmical work is inspired by an area of McGlade’s native Cornwall and uses the text of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem of the same name. The area, where a common meets the sea, is home to many skylarks who, it is thought, sing to ward off predators out to steal their young from nests hidden in the long grass. To a Skylark is a setting of just a few verses of Shelley’s lengthy poem in which the composer portrays, through the quick, light, undulating melodies, this joyous bird flitting i...