A Shropshire Lad

Boyle, Ina, Browne, William, Burton, James, Butterworth, George, Clarke, Rebecca, Dring, Madeleine, Farrar, Ernest, Gipps, Ruth, Ireland, John, różni kompozytorzy, Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Elder, Mark, Hallé, Williams, Roderick

HLL 7559

This album represents the culmination of what leading British baritone Roderick Williams described as ‘a dream come true’. It features premiere recordings of his orchestrations of songs by Vaughan Williams and other composers associated with him and is released to commemorate those who perished in WWI.

Featuring orchestrations by Williams of his favourite songs from the 20th-Century English repertoire this album contains works by Vaughan Williams and composers associated with him. It includes specially commissioned new arrangements of songs by women composers Ina Boyle, Ruth Gipps, Madeleine Dring and Rebecca Clarke.

The album features the work of composers who were killed in the First World War, George Butterworth, William Denis Browne and Ernest Farrar and is released to coincide with Remembrance Day. These songs portray the composers’ evocative responses to the poetry they set, and Williams’s orchestrations further convey the songs meaning through highly effective use of orchestral instruments and textures.

Works:

•John Ireland: Great Things; Sea Fever
•Ina Boyle: The Joy of Earth
•William Denis Browne: To Gratiana Dancing and Singing
•George Butterworth: Six Songs aus "A Shropshire Lad"
•Ruth Gipps: The Pulley
•Ralph Vaughan Williams: The House of Life
•Madeleine Dring: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
•James Burton: When I set out for Lyonesse
•Rebecca Clarke: The seal man
•Ernest Farrar: Silent noon

CD x 1

Hallé

2.11.2022

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