George Butterworth:
01 - 06 Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad [13'06]
07 - 11 Bredon Hill and other songs [13'31]
Ivor Gurney:
12 - 31 20 Songs [47'14]
Benjamin Luxon- baritone and David Willison- piano
Chandos CHAN 8831 [recorded November 1989; issued 1990]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk, UK
Recording engineer and Producer: Ralph Couzens
Ivor Gurney:
01 - 08 The Western Playland *^ [25'44]
Herbert Howells:
09 - 12 Four Songs * [10'03]
Ivor Gurney:
13 Edward, Edward * [4'54]
14 - 17 String Quartet in D minor ^ [35'46]
18 By a Bierside * [4'15]
Roderick Williams- baritone*; Michael Dussek- piano* and The Bridge Quartet ^ [Colin Twigg and Catherine Schofield- violins, Michael Schofield- viola, Lucy Wilding- cello]
EM Records EMR CD065 [recorded June 2018; issued 2019]
[digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]
Recording venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK
Recording engineer: Patrick Allen; Producer: Rupert Marshall-Luck
Ralph Vaughan Williams:
01 - 06 On Wenlock Edge [21'01]
Ivor Gurney:
07 - 13 Ludlow and Teme [20'05]
Ian Venables:
14 - 17 Songs of Eternity and Sorrow, op.36 [16'36]
Andrew Kennedy- tenor, Simon Crawford-Phillips- piano, Dante Quartet [Krysia Osostowicz and Giles Francis- violins, Judith Busbridge- viola, Bernard Gregor-Smith- cello]
Signum Classics SIGCD112 [recorded February 2007; issued 2008]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK
Recording engineer: Mike Hatch; Producer: Adrian Peacock
Ralph Vaughan Williams:
01 - 06 On Wenlock Edge * [23'15]
Ivor Gurney:
07 - 14 The Western Playland ^ [24'57]
15 - 21 Ludlow and Teme * [20'46]
Adrian Thompson- tenor*, Stephen Varcoe- baritone^, Iain Burnside- piano, Delme Quartet [Galina Solodchin and John Trusler- violins, John Underwood- viola, Jonathan Williams- cello]
Hyperion CDH55187 [recorded October 1989; this issue 2004]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: Kimpton Parish Church, Hertfordshire, UK;
Recording engineer: Antony Howell; Producer: Arthur Johnson
Ivor Gurney:
01 - 07 Ludlow and Teme *#^ [18'22]
George Butterworth:
08 - 11 Bredon Hill and other songs *# [11'09]
12 - 16 Suite for String Quartet ^ [18'23]
Peter Warlock:
17 Saudades - No. 3, Heraclitus *^ [3'21]
18 Sweet Content *^ [1'18]
George Butterworth:
19 Love blows as the wind blows - No. 3. Fill a glass with golden wine *^ [1'51]
20 Love blows as the wind blows - No. 4. On the way to Kew *^ [3'34]
Ivor Gurney:
21 String Quartet in D minor - II. Adagio ^ [7'39]
22 The Cloths of Heaven *^ [3'08]
23 Severn Meadows *^ [1'53]
24 By a bierside *^ [4'19]
Charles Daniels- tenor*, Michael Dussek- piano #, The Bridge Quartet ^ [Colin Twigg and Catherine Schofield- violins, Michael Schofield- viola, Lucy Wilding- cello]
EM Records EMR CD036 [recorded January 2015 and May 2014; issued 2016]
[digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]
Recording venue: Church of St John the Evangelist, Iffley Road, Oxford and St George’s Church Chesterton, Cambridge, UK
Recording engineers: Richard Bland and Matthew Dilley; Producer: Richard Bland
George Butterworth:
01 - 06 Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad [14'16]
07 Haste on, My Joys! [1'44]
08 - 13 11 Folk Songs from Sussex: No.1, No.2, No.4, No.5, No.7 & No.11 [9'18]
14 I Will Make You Brooches [2'26]
15 - 18 Love blows as the wind blows [11'37]
19 I Fear Thy Kisses [2'19]
20 - 24 11 Folk Songs from Sussex: No.3, No.6, No.8, No.9 & No.10 [9'51]
25 Requiescat [3'06]
26 - 30 Bredon Hill and other songs [16'10]
Mark Stone- baritone and Stephen Barlow- piano
Stone Records 5060192780024 [recorded December 2009; issued 2010]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: The Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, U.K.
Recording engineer and producer: Richard Sutcliffe
Sadly, the film bonus is not included in the digital download.
Ralph Vaughan Williams:
01 - 06 On Wenlock Edge [23'08]
Daniel Norman- tenor, Sholto Kynoch- piano & Brodsky Quartet [Daniel Rowland and Ian Belton- violins, Paul Cassidy- viola, Jacqueline Thomas- cello]
Stone Records 5060192780901 [recorded January 2019; issued 2019]
[digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]
Recording venue: SJE Arts, Oxford, UK
Recording engineer: David Hinitt; Producer: Adrian Peacock
This pioneering recording of many of the settings of A E Housman's A Shropshire Lad poems was made in 1979 and issued as a two LP set. This single CD selection is all that has subsequently been released. I eagerly purchased the LPs when they were first issued but was rather disappointed by Graham Trew's singing. It was interesting to see Ted Perry listed as General Producer - long before he founded Hyperion Records.
Arthur Somervell:
01 - 10 A Shropshire Lad [23'37]
George Butterworth:
11 - 16 Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad [13'38]
Graham Peel:
17 When the lad for longing sighs [1'45]
18 Reveille [2'35]
19 In summertime on Bredon [3'55]
Ivor Gurney:
20 - 27 The Western Playland ^ [28'09]
Graham Trew- tenor, Roger Vignoles- piano, Coull String Quartet ^ [Roger Coull and Philip Gallaway- violins, David Curtis- viola, Martin Thomas- cello]
Meridian CDE84185 [recorded August 1979; this release 2010]
[digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - LP sleeve/booklet sourced from archive.com]
Recording venue: Eltham College, London
Recording engineer: John Shuttleworth; Producer: John Michael East
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