Most Grand to Die
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BUTTERWORTH / GURNEY / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Most Grand to Die
James Rutherford (baritone) Eugene Asti (piano)
[ BIS / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 June 2012
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James Rutherford, with Eugene Asti at the piano, here records his first disc for BIS, presenting a programme of works from composers all influenced greatly by the First World War.
George Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad takes texts from A.E. Housman's poems of young men facing death.
Vaughan Williams turned to poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, for his Songs of Travel, a set of nine songs in which the wanderer-narrator philosophically accepts the mixture of joys and sorrows offered to him along the road.
Gurney - the youngest of the three composers - was also a poet, and in Severn Meadows expressed his longing for home in both text and music. Severn Meadows was composed during Gurney's time in the trenches.
Tracks:
Butterworth, G:
Bredon Hill and other songs
A Shropshire Lad - six songs
Gurney:
In Flanders
Severn Meadows
Even such is time (Sir Walter Raleigh)
By a bierside
The twa corbies
Sleep
Vaughan Williams:
Songs of Travel
