Flowers of the Field / Wetton, London Mozart Players

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
November 11, 2014
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VAUGHAN WILLIAMS FINZI
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      City Of London Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Irons, Williams, London Mozart Players, Davan Wetton
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 11, 2014
    • UPC
      747313342679
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573426
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. A Shropshire Lad

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Ensemble: London Mozart Players

      Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton

    2. I. Prelude

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: London Mozart Players

      Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton

    3. II. How Still This Quiet Cornfield Is To-Night

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: City of London Choir, London Mozart Players

      Performer: Natasha Harbinson, David Bagnall

      Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton

    4. III. Only a Man Harrowing Clods

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: London Mozart Players

      Performer: Roderick Williams

      Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton

    5. IV. We Who Are Left

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: City of London Choir, London Mozart Players

      Performer: Emily Tidbury

      Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton

    6. The Trumpet

      Composer: Ivor Gurney

      Ensemble: City of London Choir, London Mozart Players

      Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton

    7. An Oxford Elegy

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: City of London Choir, London Mozart Players

      Performer: Jeremy Irons

      Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton


These composers were all affected by the carnage of World War I, and their elegiac music expresses regret and lost innocence, love won and lost, sacrifice and death. George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad, conceived as an epilogue to his Housman song cycles, encapsulates the poet’s sense of life’s transience. Ivor Gurney was both shot and gassed in 1917, and The Trumpet pleads with mankind to set aside the folly of war. Heard here in a new completion, Gerald Finzi’s Requiem da Camera mourns the death of his mentor Ernest Farrar and those of other fallen artists, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s An Oxford Elegy recalls lost friends with an intense and magical nostalgia.