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English composer George Butterworth (1885-1916) did not write a great deal of music. In fact, during the war he destroyed many of his works for fear he wouldn’t return from battle and wouldn’t be able to revise him. He is most known for his orchestral setting “A Shropshire Lad.” This release features “A Shropshire Lad Rhapsody,” which is the ‘orchestral epilogue’ to the original settings of A. E. Housman’s poems. Especially notable on this release is “Orchestral Fantasia.” Butterworth began the composition before the war broke out, and a three and a half minute section was preserved. The conductor of this release, Kriss Russman, has picked up where Butterworth left off, adding around five minutes of music where he develops Butterworth’s original ideas and adds additional material.
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Reviews
**** (Excellent Disc) **** (Excellent Sound)
Michel Fleury – Classica magazine (France) – November 2016
Choral & Song Choice Performance ***** Recording *****
"... congratulations are due to Russman and BIS, and this disc's crowdfunding sponsers, on such powerful advocacy for one of British music's most greivous losses."
Michael Rohan Scott - BBC Music magazine - September 2016
"... his [Russman] accounts of Butterworth's four completed orchestral works are fresh and passionate, with a wide dynamic range captured in crystal-clear BIS sound. And Rutherford gives an ardent reading of Butterworth's only orchestral song-cycle, Love Blows as the Wind Blows. Butterworth's admirer's will want to hea this disc ..."
Richard Bratby – Gramophone magazine – August 2016
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