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Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ (Butterworth) London 2014 Roderick Williams, Allan Clayton
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad'
- Composer: Butterworth George
- Libretto: Alfred Edward Housman,
- Venue & Opera Company: Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, BBC Proms
- Recorded: August 17, 2014
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Roderick Williams, Allan Clayton
- Conductor: Andrew Manze
- Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: BBC
- Date Published: 2014
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad reflects a world on the brink of collapse while Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony is a vision of war-ravaged France. Like Butterworth, both Rudi Stephan and Frederick Kelly were killed in the First World War; the latter’s exquisite Elegy for strings was performed at his own memorial concert. Stephan’s Music for Orchestra (1912) finds a desperate intensity in its Expressionist colours.
Programme
Rudi Stephan
Music for Orchestra (1912) (18 mins)
Frederick Septimus Kelly
Elegy for strings, in memoriam Rupert Brooke (9 mins)
George Butterworth
Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ (orch. P. Brookes) (12 mins)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No.3) (37 mins)