Since you are interested in Butterworth: Songs from A Shropshire Lad / Folk Songs from Sussex (English Song, Vol. 20), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JOHN IRELAND
Songs (Incls 'Five Poems by Thomas Hardy') Roderick Williams (Baritone) / Iain Burnside (Piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 18 / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "Roderick Williams is such a good singer he can make the voice part sound vocal and natural in a way not many have succeeded in doing. …the pianist, Iain Burnside, plays with a sureness of touch to match the highly skilled naturalness of Williams's... |
IAN VENABLES
On the Wings of Love / Venetian Songs Andrew Kennedy (tenor) / Richard Hosford (clarinet) / Iain Burnside (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 21 / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "[Venables] manages to create worthwhile new artefacts within his conservative idiom. Expertly crafted, the results offer something genuinely personal and at times profound." (BBC Music Choral & Song Choice - December 2010) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Complete Scottish Songs Mark Wilde (tenor) / Lucy Wakeford (harp), David owen Norris (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2011 ] "The mood is mostly bleak, haunted and haunting: this is Britten at his most austerely romantic and melancholy." (Daily Telegraph) |