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

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
July 27, 2010
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BUTTERWORTH, GEORGE
    • PERFORMER
      Williams, Burnside
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 27, 2010
    • UPC
      747313242672
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572426
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Loveliest of trees

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    2. No. 2. When I was one-and-twenty

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    3. No. 3. Look not in my eyes

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    4. No. 4. Think no more, lad

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    5. No. 5. The lads in their hundreds

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    6. No. 6. Is my team ploughing?

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    7. No. 7. A brisk young sailor courted me

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    8. No. 8. Seventeen come Sunday

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    9. No. 9. Roving in the dew

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    10. No. 10. The true lover's farewell

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    11. No. 11. Tarry trousers

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    12. No. 1. Bredon Hill

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    13. No. 2. O Fair enough are sky and plain

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    14. No. 3. When the lad for the longing sighs

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    15. No. 4. On the idle hill of summer

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    16. No. 5. With rue my heart is laden

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    17. I Will Make You Brooches

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    18. I Fear Thy Kisses

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    19. Requiescat

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    20. No. 1. Yonder stands a lovely creature

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    21. No. 2. A blacksmith courted me

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    22. No. 3. Sowing the seeds of love

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    23. No. 4. A lawyer he went out one day

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    24. No. 5. Come my own one

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    25. No. 6. The cuckoo

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside


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.