A Shropshire lad [sound recording] / [text by] A.E. Housman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: CDA 66471/2 | HyperionSeries: Hyperion English song seriesPublication details: London : Hyperion, p2001Description: 2 sound discs (123:39) : digital, stereo. ; 12 cm, 39 page bookletContained works:
  • Housman, A. E. 1859-1936 Shropshire lad
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 CD 783.8742 HOUS
LOC classification:
  • SDA 63513
Contents:
COMPACT DISC 1 : 1. 1887 'From Clee to heaven the beacon burns' [1:45] -- 2. Loveliest Of Trees / George Butterworth [3:11] -- 3. The Recruit 'Leave your home behind, lad' [1:09] -- 4. Reveille 'Wake: the silver dusk returning' [1:03] -- 5. Oh see how thick the gold cup flowers / C. W. Orr [4:34] -- 6. When the lad for longing sighs / George Butterworth [1:56] -- 7. When smoke stood up from Ludlow [1:17] -- 8. Farewell to barn and stack and tree [1:03] -- 9. On moonlit heath and lonesome bank [1:27] -- 10. March 'The sun at noon to higher air.... [0:25] -- 11. 'The Heart's Desire".... The boys are up the woods with day / John Ireland [2:27] -- 12. On your midnight pallet lying [0:36] -- 13. When I watch the living meet / C. W. Orr [3:12] -- 14. When I Was One-and-Twenty / George Butterworth [1:17] -- 15. There pass the careless people [1:00] -- 16. Look Not In My Eyes / George Butterworth [2:13] -- 17. It nods and curtseys and recovers [0:26] -- 18. 'Goal and Wicket' Twice a week the winter thorough / John Ireland [1:09] -- 19. Oh, when I was in love with you [0:18] -- 20. To an Athlete Dying Young 'The time you won your town the race' [1:37] -- 21. Oh fair enough are sky and plain / Ernest John Moeran [2:14] -- 22. Bredon Hill 'In summertime on Bredon' / George Butterworth [4:39] -- 23. 'The Encounter' The street sounds to the soldiers' tread / John Ireland [1:19] -- 24. The Lads In Their Hundred / George Butterworth [2:02] -- 25. Say. lad, have you things to do? [0:30] -- 26. This time of year / C. W. Orr [2:18] -- 27. Along the field as we came by [1:00] -- 28. Is My Team Ploughing? / George Butterworth [3:39] -- 29. The Welsh Marches 'High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam' [1:57] -- 30. The Lent Lily ''Tis spring: come out to ramble' / John Ireland [2:34] -- 31. Others, I am not the first [0:49] -- 32. On Wedlock Edge the wood's in trouble [1:09]
COMPACT DISC 2 : 1. From far, from eve and morning [0:36] -- 2. The vain desire 'If truth in hearts that perish' / John Ireland [2:28] -- 3. The new mistress 'Oh, sick I am to see you' [1:09] -- 4. On the idle hill of summer / George Butterworth [3:36] -- 5. White in the moon the long road lies / Mervyn Horder [2:18] -- 6. As through the wild green hills of Wyre [1:49] -- 7. The winds out of the west land blow [0:57] -- 8. Hawthorn Time 'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town' John Ireland [1:41] -- 9. Into my heart an air that kills C. W. Orr [2:46] -- 10. In my own shire, if I was sad [1:35] -- 11. The Merry Guide 'Once in the wind of morning' [2:13] -- 12. The Immortal Part 'When I meet the morning beam' [2:23] -- 13. Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? [1:36] -- 14. Because I liked you better / Lennox Berkeley [2:30] -- 15. He would not stay for me / Lennox Berkeley [1:32] -- 16. If it chance your eye offend you [0:27] -- 17. Bring, in this timeless grave to throw [1:07] -- 18. The Carpenter's Son 'Here the hangman stops his cart' [1:44] -- 19. Be still, my soul, be still [1:38] -- 20. Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly / George Butterworth [1:20] -- 21. In valleys of springs and rivers [1:15] -- 22. Loitering with a vacant eye [1:14] -- 23. Far in a western brookland / E. J. Moeran [2:40] -- 24. The True Lover 'The lad came to the door at night' [1:44] -- 25. With rue my heart is laden / Samuel Barber [1:15] -- 26. Westward on the high-hilled plains [0:42] -- 27. The Day of Battle 'Far I hear the bugle blow' [0:51] -- 28. Epilogue 'You smile upon your friend today' / John Ireland [1:34] -- 29. When I came last to Ludlow [0:21] -- 30. The Isle of Portland 'The star-filled seas are smooth tonight' / C. W. Orr [3:44] -- 31. Now hollow fires burn out to black [0:19] -- 32. Hughley Steeple 'The vane on Hughley steeple' / C. W. Orr [2:59] -- 33. Terence, this is stupid stuff [3:49] -- 34. I hoed and trenched and weeded [0:54]
Alan Bates, reader ; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor ; Graham Johnson, piano.
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Compact Disc (Audio) Compact Disc (Audio) Academy of Music & Performing Arts Library Audio Visual CD 783.8742 HOUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A02217

Compact discs.

Title taken from the label and insert.

Originally issued in 1995 as Hyperion CDA66471/2.

Program notes by Andrew Green and texts of the poems and songs (39 p.) laid in container.

"The complete Shropshire lad in poem and song-settings by Samuel Barber, George Butterworth, Mervyn Horder, John Ireland, E.J. Moeran, C.W. Orr and Lennox Berkeley"--Container.

COMPACT DISC 1 : 1. 1887 'From Clee to heaven the beacon burns' [1:45] -- 2. Loveliest Of Trees / George Butterworth [3:11] -- 3. The Recruit 'Leave your home behind, lad' [1:09] -- 4. Reveille 'Wake: the silver dusk returning' [1:03] -- 5. Oh see how thick the gold cup flowers / C. W. Orr [4:34] -- 6. When the lad for longing sighs / George Butterworth [1:56] -- 7. When smoke stood up from Ludlow [1:17] -- 8. Farewell to barn and stack and tree [1:03] -- 9. On moonlit heath and lonesome bank [1:27] -- 10. March 'The sun at noon to higher air.... [0:25] -- 11. 'The Heart's Desire".... The boys are up the woods with day / John Ireland [2:27] -- 12. On your midnight pallet lying [0:36] -- 13. When I watch the living meet / C. W. Orr [3:12] -- 14. When I Was One-and-Twenty / George Butterworth [1:17] -- 15. There pass the careless people [1:00] -- 16. Look Not In My Eyes / George Butterworth [2:13] -- 17. It nods and curtseys and recovers [0:26] -- 18. 'Goal and Wicket' Twice a week the winter thorough / John Ireland [1:09] -- 19. Oh, when I was in love with you [0:18] -- 20. To an Athlete Dying Young 'The time you won your town the race' [1:37] -- 21. Oh fair enough are sky and plain / Ernest John Moeran [2:14] -- 22. Bredon Hill 'In summertime on Bredon' / George Butterworth [4:39] -- 23. 'The Encounter' The street sounds to the soldiers' tread / John Ireland [1:19] -- 24. The Lads In Their Hundred / George Butterworth [2:02] -- 25. Say. lad, have you things to do? [0:30] -- 26. This time of year / C. W. Orr [2:18] -- 27. Along the field as we came by [1:00] -- 28. Is My Team Ploughing? / George Butterworth [3:39] -- 29. The Welsh Marches 'High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam' [1:57] -- 30. The Lent Lily ''Tis spring: come out to ramble' / John Ireland [2:34] -- 31. Others, I am not the first [0:49] -- 32. On Wedlock Edge the wood's in trouble [1:09]

COMPACT DISC 2 : 1. From far, from eve and morning [0:36] -- 2. The vain desire 'If truth in hearts that perish' / John Ireland [2:28] -- 3. The new mistress 'Oh, sick I am to see you' [1:09] -- 4. On the idle hill of summer / George Butterworth [3:36] -- 5. White in the moon the long road lies / Mervyn Horder [2:18] -- 6. As through the wild green hills of Wyre [1:49] -- 7. The winds out of the west land blow [0:57] -- 8. Hawthorn Time 'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town' John Ireland [1:41] -- 9. Into my heart an air that kills C. W. Orr [2:46] -- 10. In my own shire, if I was sad [1:35] -- 11. The Merry Guide 'Once in the wind of morning' [2:13] -- 12. The Immortal Part 'When I meet the morning beam' [2:23] -- 13. Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? [1:36] -- 14. Because I liked you better / Lennox Berkeley [2:30] -- 15. He would not stay for me / Lennox Berkeley [1:32] -- 16. If it chance your eye offend you [0:27] -- 17. Bring, in this timeless grave to throw [1:07] -- 18. The Carpenter's Son 'Here the hangman stops his cart' [1:44] -- 19. Be still, my soul, be still [1:38] -- 20. Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly / George Butterworth [1:20] -- 21. In valleys of springs and rivers [1:15] -- 22. Loitering with a vacant eye [1:14] -- 23. Far in a western brookland / E. J. Moeran [2:40] -- 24. The True Lover 'The lad came to the door at night' [1:44] -- 25. With rue my heart is laden / Samuel Barber [1:15] -- 26. Westward on the high-hilled plains [0:42] -- 27. The Day of Battle 'Far I hear the bugle blow' [0:51] -- 28. Epilogue 'You smile upon your friend today' / John Ireland [1:34] -- 29. When I came last to Ludlow [0:21] -- 30. The Isle of Portland 'The star-filled seas are smooth tonight' / C. W. Orr [3:44] -- 31. Now hollow fires burn out to black [0:19] -- 32. Hughley Steeple 'The vane on Hughley steeple' / C. W. Orr [2:59] -- 33. Terence, this is stupid stuff [3:49] -- 34. I hoed and trenched and weeded [0:54]

Alan Bates, reader ; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor ; Graham Johnson, piano.

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