Butterworth, George > Decca Import

The British Music Collection - Butterworth: Six Songs, etc

1 CD / Decca Import / 2004-03-09

Works: George Butterworth: Songs (6) from "A Shropshire Lad", for voice & piano (or orchestra); Bredon Hill and Other Songs, songs (5) for voice & piano; A Shropshire Lad; English Idylls (2); Banks of Green...
Performers: Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Willison, David
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

"The orchestral rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad, with its yearning lyricism, represents the English folksong school at its most captivatingly atmospheric, and the other three works...continue...