曲目リスト

1. Loveliest Of Trees
2. When I was One-And-Twenty
3. Look Not In My Eyes
4. Think, No More Lad
5. The Lads In Their Hundreds
6. Is My Team Ploughing?
7. Brendon Hill
8. O Fair Enough Are Sky And Plain
9. When The Lad For Longing Sighs
10. On The Idle Hill Of Summer
11. With Rue My Heart Is Laden
12. A Shropshire Lad
13. Two English Idylls
14. The Banks Of Green Willow

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #320909 / ミュージック
• 発売日: 2004-03-09
• ディスク枚数: 1
• 形式: Import, from US
• 寸法: .23 ポンド
• 実行時間: 56 分

From Amazon.co.uk
George Butterworth (1885-1916) was perhaps the most gifted of those young composers who lost their lives in the Great War. Though Butterworth's output was small (he was notoriously self-critical, destroying many early manuscripts before enlisting in 1914), it is of exceedingly high quality and works such as the ineffably poignant 1911 orchestral rhapsody A Shropshire Lad and "On the Idle Hill of Summer" from Bredon Hill are mini-masterpieces by any standard, driving home afresh what a grievous loss to British music Butterworth's premature demise was. On this useful mid-priced Decca compilation, Benjamin Luxon and David Willison bring a wealth of character and insight to the two Housman song-cycles (Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad and Bredon Hill), while Marriner and his beautifully poised band give supremely sensitive performances of the three entrancing orchestral offerings. Very good sound throughout and a positive recommendation, though no collector should miss hearing Adrian Boult's treasurable mono recordings of both A Shropshire Lad and The Banks of Green Willow on a bargain Belart reissue. --Andrew Achenbach