I enjoy Ralph Vaughan Williams but can only take his orchestrations with discretion and infrequency.
The composer's 5th Symphony in D Major is one of these ambivalent favorites. In the second Presto movement (
track 2, disc 2), from its denouement past the four-minute mark, it all goes to wordless things and points of light.
So enchanted by that first seven-chord progression (on this recording, about 4:13), I lifted a variation and stuck it behind the first chorus in a song of my old band's.