The Soldier: From Severn to Somme

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Signum Classics
Release Date
November 15, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Maltman, Middletone
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 15, 2019
    • UPC
      635212059227
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD592
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 1. Loveliest of trees

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    2. Black Stitchel

      Composer: Ivor Gurney

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    3. The Shropshire Lad: No. 6. On the idle hill of summer

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    4. 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 3. Look not in my eyes

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    5. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: No. 9. Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    6. Les berceaux, Op. 23, No. 1

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    7. 114 Songs: No. 50. He is There!

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    8. The Shropshire Lad: No. 7. White in the moon the long road lies

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    9. Severn Meadows

      Composer: Ivor Gurney

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    10. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: No. 13. Revelge

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    11. Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death): No. 4. The Field-Marshal

      Composer: Modest Mussorgsky

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    12. In Flanders

      Composer: Ivor Gurney

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    13. The Shropshire Lad: No. 8. Think no more lad, laugh, be jolly

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    14. Romanzen und Balladen, Book 2, Op. 49: No. 1. Die beiden Grenadiere

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    15. Mörike Lieder: No. 5. Der Tambour

      Composer: Hugo Wolf

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    16. 5 Lieder, Op. 40: No. 3. Der Soldat

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    17. Before and after Summer, Op. 16: No. 5. Channel Firing

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    18. The Shropshire Lad: No. 9. Into my heart an air that kills

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

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

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    20. No. 5. The lads in their hundreds

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    21. No. 6. Is my team ploughing?

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    22. La courte paille, FP 178: No. 7. Lune d'avril

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton

    23. We'll to the Woods No More: No. 2. In Boyhood

      Composer: John Ireland

      Performer: Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton


The programme performed here by baritone Christopher Maltman and pianist Joseph Middleton was born whilst Maltmann was studying at the Royal Academy of Music. The compositions have been selected to form a coherent but flexible narrative that produces a touching memoir to all those affected by war. One composer chosen for the record, George Butterworth, was a casualty of the First World War: in September 1915 he want to the trenches and was killed, aged 31, in the Battle of the Somme on 5th August 1916. The use of his composition, A Shropshire Lad, is touching in this instance. It gives the listener a more sensitive perspective of the loss in World War One, almost allowing the listener to see the faces of those who passed away, most of whom were young 'lads' from various parts of the country.