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BAND/ARTIST: James Rutherford, Eugene Asti
- Title: Most Grand to Die
- Year Of Release: 2012
- Label: BIS
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 44.1kHz +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:19:06
- Total Size: 304 / 644 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: No. 1, Bredon Hill
02. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: No. 2, O Fair enough Are Sky and Plain
03. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: No. 3, When the Lad for the Longing Sighs
04. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: No. 4, On the Idle Hill of Summer
05. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: No. 5, With Rue My Heart Is Laden
06. In Flanders
07. Severn Meadows
08. Even Such Is Time
09. By a Bierside
10. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 1, Loveliest of Trees
11. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 2, When I was one-and-twenty
12. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 3, Look Not in My Eyes
13. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 4, Think no more, Lad
14. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 5, The Lads in their Hundreds
15. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 6, Is My Team Ploughing?
16. The Twa Corbies
17. Songs of Travel: No. 1, The Vagabond
18. Songs of Travel: No. 2, Let Beauty Awake
19. Songs of Travel: No. 3, The Roadside Fire
20. Songs of Travel: No. 4, Youth and Love
21. Songs of Travel: No. 5, in Dreams
22. Songs of Travel: No. 6, The Infinite Shining Heavens
23. Songs of Travel: No. 7, Whither Must I Wander?
24. Songs of Travel: No. 8, Bright Is the Ring of Words
25. Songs of Travel: No. 9, I Have Trod the Upward and Downward Slope
26. 5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4, Sleep
The title of this release is taken from a poem by John Masefield ("Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.") that was set by Ivor Gurney as one of his Four Songs ("From the Trenches"). What all three composers here had in common was direct experience of World War I: George Butterworth was killed in 1916; Ralph Vaughan Williams saw action as a medic; and his student Gurney survived but was eventually institutionalized. Only Gurney's songs date from the war years; the others predate the war. But Butterworth's seem prescient due to the fact that the texts of his favorite poet, A.E. Housman, often took the deaths of young men in war as a theme. For annotator Malcolm MacDonald, the two cycles of Housman songs included here are examples of "the spare, economical nature of Butterworth's invention." To each his own, but others may feel that his settings, in unpacking Housman's poetry, lose its awesomely understated quality. Stronger are the lesser-known songs of Gurney, one of whose texts is of his own composition. The Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel, setting a poem cycle by Robert Louis Stevenson and intended to emulate Schubert's Die Winterreise, are the least directly connected to the theme, but baritone James Rutherford delivers compelling readings of a darkly lyrical hue. Worthwhile for lovers of the modern British song, with fine engineering from Sweden's BIS label.
01. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: No. 1, Bredon Hill
02. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: No. 2, O Fair enough Are Sky and Plain
03. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: No. 3, When the Lad for the Longing Sighs
04. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: No. 4, On the Idle Hill of Summer
05. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: No. 5, With Rue My Heart Is Laden
06. In Flanders
07. Severn Meadows
08. Even Such Is Time
09. By a Bierside
10. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 1, Loveliest of Trees
11. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 2, When I was one-and-twenty
12. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 3, Look Not in My Eyes
13. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 4, Think no more, Lad
14. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 5, The Lads in their Hundreds
15. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 6, Is My Team Ploughing?
16. The Twa Corbies
17. Songs of Travel: No. 1, The Vagabond
18. Songs of Travel: No. 2, Let Beauty Awake
19. Songs of Travel: No. 3, The Roadside Fire
20. Songs of Travel: No. 4, Youth and Love
21. Songs of Travel: No. 5, in Dreams
22. Songs of Travel: No. 6, The Infinite Shining Heavens
23. Songs of Travel: No. 7, Whither Must I Wander?
24. Songs of Travel: No. 8, Bright Is the Ring of Words
25. Songs of Travel: No. 9, I Have Trod the Upward and Downward Slope
26. 5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4, Sleep
The title of this release is taken from a poem by John Masefield ("Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.") that was set by Ivor Gurney as one of his Four Songs ("From the Trenches"). What all three composers here had in common was direct experience of World War I: George Butterworth was killed in 1916; Ralph Vaughan Williams saw action as a medic; and his student Gurney survived but was eventually institutionalized. Only Gurney's songs date from the war years; the others predate the war. But Butterworth's seem prescient due to the fact that the texts of his favorite poet, A.E. Housman, often took the deaths of young men in war as a theme. For annotator Malcolm MacDonald, the two cycles of Housman songs included here are examples of "the spare, economical nature of Butterworth's invention." To each his own, but others may feel that his settings, in unpacking Housman's poetry, lose its awesomely understated quality. Stronger are the lesser-known songs of Gurney, one of whose texts is of his own composition. The Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel, setting a poem cycle by Robert Louis Stevenson and intended to emulate Schubert's Die Winterreise, are the least directly connected to the theme, but baritone James Rutherford delivers compelling readings of a darkly lyrical hue. Worthwhile for lovers of the modern British song, with fine engineering from Sweden's BIS label.
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