Evert Jan Nagtegaal and the Art of Song
George Butterworth (12 July 1885 – 5 August 1916),
Composer-Morrisdancer and Soldier.
All the works of George Butterworth
1. Cyclus Love Blows as the wind blows (lyrics William Ernest Henley)
a. “In the Year That’s Come and Gone”
b. “Life in Her Creaking Shoes”
c. “Fill a Glass with Golden Wine”
d. “On the Way to Kew
Baritone Mark Stone and pianist Stephen Barlow
2. Bredon Hill and 4 other songs (lyrics: A. E. Housman)
b. “Oh Fair Enough Are Sky and Plain”
c. “When the Lad for Longing Sighs”
d. “On the Idle Hill of Summer”
e. “With Rue My Heart Is Laden”
baritone Bryn Terfel and Malcolm Martineau piano
3. Six songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ (lyrics: A. E. Housman)
a. “Loveliest of trees”
b. “When I was one and twenty”
c. “Look not in my eyes”
d. “Think no more, lad”
e. “The lads in their hundreds”
f. “Is my team ploughing?
Baritone Stephen Varcoe with the London Sinfonia conducted by Richard Hickox
4. 4 Folksongs from Sussex-Billinghurst (lyrics: anonymous)
a. “The cuckoo”
b. “Seventeen come Sanday”
c. “Roving in the dew”
d. “The true lover’s farewell”
5. Requiescat (lyrics: Oscar Wilde)
Baritone Mark Stone and pianist Stephen Barlow
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