Release Date: 29 July 2012
Label: Bis / BIS Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7318599916101
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Most Grand To Die
Description
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.
Tracklisting
Ruby Hughes; Jonas Nordberg; Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann
Alina Ibragimova; Cedric Tiberghien
Malin Bystrom, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Sondergard
Masaaki Suzuki
Franz Halasz
CLARE HAMMOND
Chelys Consort Of Viols
Plowright
