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Flowers of the Field / Wetton, London Mozart Players
Naxos

Flowers of the Field / Wetton, London Mozart Players

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Details

Composer
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS FINZI
Artist
Irons, Williams, London Mozart Players, Davan Wetton
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Nov 11, 2014
Catalog #
8573426
UPC
747313342679

About

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.

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 A Shropshire Lad 10:22
    Track
    1
    Title
    A Shropshire Lad
    Duration
    10:22
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Ensemble
    London Mozart Players
    Conductor
    Hilary Davan Wetton
  2. 2 I. Prelude 05:20
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Prelude
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Ensemble
    London Mozart Players
    Conductor
    Hilary Davan Wetton
  3. 3 II. How Still This Quiet Cornfield Is To-Night 09:14
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. How Still This Quiet Cornfield Is To-Night
    Duration
    09:14
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    Natasha Harbinson, David Bagnall
    Ensemble
    City of London Choir, London Mozart Players
    Conductor
    Hilary Davan Wetton
  4. 4 III. Only a Man Harrowing Clods 03:37
    Track
    4
    Title
    III. Only a Man Harrowing Clods
    Duration
    03:37
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    Roderick Williams
    Ensemble
    London Mozart Players
    Conductor
    Hilary Davan Wetton
  5. 5 IV. We Who Are Left 04:18
    Track
    5
    Title
    IV. We Who Are Left
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    Emily Tidbury
    Ensemble
    City of London Choir, London Mozart Players
    Conductor
    Hilary Davan Wetton
  6. 6 The Trumpet 05:45
    Track
    6
    Title
    The Trumpet
    Duration
    05:45
    Composer
    Ivor Gurney
    Ensemble
    City of London Choir, London Mozart Players
    Conductor
    Hilary Davan Wetton
  7. 7 An Oxford Elegy 22:01
    Track
    7
    Title
    An Oxford Elegy
    Duration
    22:01
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Performer
    Jeremy Irons
    Ensemble
    City of London Choir, London Mozart Players
    Conductor
    Hilary Davan Wetton