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- Original Release Date: 14 May 2001
- Format - Music: MP3
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- Also available in CD Format
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| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. A Shropshire Lad - Loveliest of trees | Benjamin Luxon | 3:29 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 2. A Shropshire Lad - When I was one-and-twenty | Benjamin Luxon | 1:23 | £0.39 | ||
| Play | 3. A Shropshire Lad - Look not in my eyes | Benjamin Luxon | 2:31 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 4. A Shropshire Lad - Think no more, lad | Benjamin Luxon | 1:22 | £0.39 | ||
| Play | 5. A Shropshire Lad - The lads in their hundreds | Benjamin Luxon | 2:30 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 6. A Shropshire Lad - Is my team ploughing? | Benjamin Luxon | 3:51 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 7. Bredon Hill - 1. Bredon Hill | Benjamin Luxon | 4:00 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 8. Bredon Hill - 2. O fair enough are sky and plain | Benjamin Luxon | 3:12 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 9. Bredon Hill - 3. When the lad for longing sighs | Benjamin Luxon | 1:45 | £0.39 | ||
| Play | 10. Bredon Hill - 4. On the idle hill of summer | Benjamin Luxon | 3:14 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 11. Bredon Hill - 5. With rue my heart is laden | Benjamin Luxon | 2:19 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 12. A Shropshire Lad - Rhapsody | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | 10:25 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 13. Two English Idylls | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | 9:50 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 14. The Banks of Green Willow | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | 6:10 | £0.89 |
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This wonderful collection of songs and orchestral pieces may have connotations of an idealistic English pastoral arcadia, but, ultimately, refuse this appropriation. The melancholy of A.E. Housman's poetry and the tragic end of Butterworth on the battle fields of the Somme make this reflective but worthwhile listening.
The simplicity of piano and voice used in the "Shropshire Lad" songs contrast effectively with three of Butterworth's best known orchestral works at the end, which display his influence by the English folk tradition. The final work is almost inevitably, but rightly, "The Banks of Green Willow" with its enduringly beautiful clarinet introduction. A wise investment for admirers of this composer's brief musical career.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Like so many ordinary people, George Butterworth was a national treasure lost to the First World War. I bought this CD purely for the orchestral peices, A Shropshire Lad, On the Banks of Green Willow and Two English Idylls.The peices hark back to a time when Britain was at peace with the world, and one can imagine strolling through English medaows on a beautiful summers day in a bygone era whilst listening to the glorious structure of the peices. Butterworth captures England perfectly. One can only wonder of what greatness this man would have acheived had he survived the horrors of the Somme.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
George Butterworth is my favourite English composer with Malcolm Arnold getting close behind. A complete Butterworth disc is very much needed, but there are problems with this one. To begin with the conductor pulls "A Shropshire Lad" out of shape, losing control of the structure a bit, and the recordings of the orchestral works were made in a church, so that there is some loss in woodwind colours, which is disastrous with Butterworth. Finally (though this isn't the fault of Decca now) Butterworth's short orchestral song cycle isn't included, so it is not completely complete. The record is not as bad as I might have put it (the church recording is not as colourless or harsh as they usually are) and until there is decent competition it is worth having for the music.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
CD Banks of Green Willow. George Butterworth
Butterworth is one of my all time favourite composers. I bought the CD because it gave a good, almost perfect rendition of his work "A Shropshire Lad", a haunting account of young... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Gatesheadsage
Discovering George Butterworth
I was naive in hoping there would be similar orchestral works as the Banks of the Green Willow (track 14). Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2009 by Msball
George Butterworth, Banks of Green Willow, etc
Butterworth, "Banks of Green Willow" is a must have for all music lovers.
The tragedy of his untimely death on the battlefield is so 'under rated'. Read more
The tragedy of his untimely death on the battlefield is so 'under rated'. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2009 by Mrs. Elizabeth Wight
Sound quality lousy
There is no doubt that the musical quality on these recordings are supurb. I will not go further into this, as it is extensivly covered in others reviews. Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2006 by Roald Andresen
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