Starter Packs

Complete your collection with these curated titles, grouped at a special discount.

Shop Now
English Song Series 20 - Butterworth: Songs From A Shropshire Lad, Folk Songs From Sussex
Naxos

English Song Series 20 - Butterworth: Songs From A Shropshire Lad, Folk Songs From Sussex

$19.99

Details

Composer
BUTTERWORTH, GEORGE
Artist
Williams, Burnside
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Jul 27, 2010
Catalog #
8572426
UPC
747313242672

About

One of England’s most distinctive composers, George Butterworth belonged to the generation of young men decimated in the Great War of 1914–1918. His sensitive and melancholic settings of poems from A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, with their subject matter of the futility and arbitrariness of war, are small-scale masterpieces. Of particular note are the Loveliest of Trees, describing the passing of the seasons, and the ghostly and elegiac Is my team ploughing? The Folk Songs from Sussex and settings of poems by R.L. Stevenson, Shelley and Wilde, whose subject matter revolves around flirtation, love, courtship, marriage and desertion, are no less notable for their attention to detail, linguistic nuance and delicate, economical piano writing.

Tracklist 25 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Loveliest of trees 02:34
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Loveliest of trees
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  2. 2 No. 2. When I was one-and-twenty 01:17
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. When I was one-and-twenty
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  3. 3 No. 3. Look not in my eyes 02:01
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Look not in my eyes
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  4. 4 No. 4. Think no more, lad 01:18
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Think no more, lad
    Duration
    01:18
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  5. 5 No. 5. The lads in their hundreds 02:12
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. The lads in their hundreds
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  6. 6 No. 6. Is my team ploughing? 03:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Is my team ploughing?
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  7. 7 No. 7. A brisk young sailor courted me 01:48
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. A brisk young sailor courted me
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  8. 8 No. 8. Seventeen come Sunday 01:40
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Seventeen come Sunday
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  9. 9 No. 9. Roving in the dew 01:31
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9. Roving in the dew
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  10. 10 No. 10. The true lover's farewell 01:50
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10. The true lover's farewell
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  11. 11 No. 11. Tarry trousers 01:01
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 11. Tarry trousers
    Duration
    01:01
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  12. 12 No. 1. Bredon Hill 04:43
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 1. Bredon Hill
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  13. 13 No. 2. O Fair enough are sky and plain 02:37
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 2. O Fair enough are sky and plain
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  14. 14 No. 3. When the lad for the longing sighs 01:40
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 3. When the lad for the longing sighs
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  15. 15 No. 4. On the idle hill of summer 03:33
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 4. On the idle hill of summer
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  16. 16 No. 5. With rue my heart is laden 01:38
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 5. With rue my heart is laden
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  17. 17 I Will Make You Brooches 02:11
    Track
    17
    Title
    I Will Make You Brooches
    Duration
    02:11
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  18. 18 I Fear Thy Kisses 01:50
    Track
    18
    Title
    I Fear Thy Kisses
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  19. 19 Requiescat 02:52
    Track
    19
    Title
    Requiescat
    Duration
    02:52
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  20. 20 No. 1. Yonder stands a lovely creature 01:23
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 1. Yonder stands a lovely creature
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  21. 21 No. 2. A blacksmith courted me 02:06
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 2. A blacksmith courted me
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  22. 22 No. 3. Sowing the seeds of love 01:41
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 3. Sowing the seeds of love
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  23. 23 No. 4. A lawyer he went out one day 01:28
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 4. A lawyer he went out one day
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  24. 24 No. 5. Come my own one 01:34
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 5. Come my own one
    Duration
    01:34
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
  25. 25 No. 6. The cuckoo 02:16
    Track
    25
    Title
    No. 6. The cuckoo
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside