Fantasy: Lark, Yang

With several competition prizes and career grants under her belt, the young violinist Tessa Lark has been in demand as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Lark was born in Richmond, Kentucky, and her earliest influences were Bluegrass and American roots music; her career, she says, has been informed by her “fiddler’s soul.” For her first solo recording, Lark has collected several free-form, quasi-improvisational works—fantasies—that seem to the performer to have a “folk-like freedom.” She plays three of Telemann’s unaccompanied Fantasies and, also for violin alone, her own Appalachian Fantasy, a four-minute gem that feels very authentic in musical …