{"product_id":"pre-order-royal-liverpool-philharmonic-orchestra-holst-butterworth-shropshire-lad-new-cd","title":"Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra * Holst \u0026 Butterworth: Shropshire Lad [New CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Butterworth, one of the pre 1914 generation lost in the Great War, left a small but enduring body of work. He was introduced to folk music by Vaughan Williams, but he was also a dancer and collector of folk songs and dances - especially those from Sussex. It is however his A.E Houseman inspired orchestral rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad, that has become his most famous composition and seems to conjure up a powerful sense of the countryside of that county, and melancholy at the waste and futility of war. Holst, like Butterworth was a friend of Vaughan Williams, and together the two of them collected folk songs from around England. Holst also taught at the school for girls in Hammersmith, London and the St Paul Suite is a personal thank you to the school. Folk songs imbue the two Songs without Words. Holst became friendly with Thomas Hardy, and it was on a night walk (at the urging of Hardy) that the inspiration for Egdon Heath came to Holst. The 15-minute-long work capture the 'singularly colossal and mysterious in it's swarthy monotony' as Hardy described the area of moorland in his novel The Return of the Native. The high trumpet at the close of the work is surely sounding from post war sad shires.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShropshire Lad Rhapsody for Orchestra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBanks of Green Willow Idyll\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo English Idylls Founded on folk-tunes~No. 1 Allegro scherzando\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo English Idylls Founded on folk-tunes~No. 2 Adagio non troppo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEgdon Heath Op. 47, A Homage to Thomas Hardy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Songs without Words Op. 22~No. 1 Country Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Songs without Words Op. 22~No. 2 Marching Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFugal Concerto Op. 40 No. 2~I. Moderato\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFugal Concerto Op. 40 No. 2~II. Adagio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFugal Concerto Op. 40 No. 2~III. Allegro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt Paul's Suite Op. 29 No. 2~I. Jig: Vivace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt Paul's Suite Op. 29 No. 2~II. Ostinato\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt Paul's Suite Op. 29 No. 2~III. Intermezzo: Andante con moto\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt Paul's Suite Op. 29 No. 2~IV. Finale (The Dargason): Allegro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 880040425823\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Onyx Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10.10.25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Onyx Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49063080984822,"sku":"610587","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2160\/4233\/files\/4447323-3423058.jpg?v=1757621658","url":"https:\/\/curiouscollectionstx.com\/products\/pre-order-royal-liverpool-philharmonic-orchestra-holst-butterworth-shropshire-lad-new-cd","provider":"Curious Collections Vinyl Records \u0026 More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}