A Shropshire Lad: English Songs Orchestrated By Roderick Williams

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 Williamss orchestrations further convey the songs meaning through highly effective use of orchestral instruments and textures.

1: Great Things
2: Sea Fever
3: The Joy of Earth
4: To Gratiana Dancing and Singing
5: Loveliest of Trees
6: When I Was One-and-twenty
7: Look Not in Mine Eyes
8: Think No More, Lad
9: The Lads in Their Hundreds
10: Is My Team Ploughing?
11: The Pulley
12: Love-sight
13: Silent Noon
14: Love's Minstrels
15: Heart's Haven
16: Death in Love
17: Love's Last Gift
18: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
19: When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
20: The Seal Man
21: Silent Noon

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

Conductor: Mark Elder

Number of Discs: 1

Orchestra: Halle Orchestra

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