Spotify Release Info
Track: Two English Idylls : No. 2, Adagio non troppo
Artist: George Butterworth
Album: Butterworth · Holst
Artist Bio
Name: George Butterworth
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Biography
English composer best known for his tone poem 'The Banks of Green Willow' and his settings of [a=Alfred E. Housman]'s poems from 'A Shropshire Lad.' (July 12, 1885 - August 5, 1916). While attending Trinity College in Oxford for law, Butterworth came in contact with the folk song collector/editor [a=Cecil Sharp] and the composer [a=Ralph Vaughan Williams]. They encouraged his musical abilities, and soon Butterworth was accompanying Vaughan Williams on folk song-collecting excursions into the English countryside. Butterworth soon left Oxford for London, abandoning the study of law to study briefly at the Royal College of Music, teach, write music criticism for the Times, and compose. He helped reconstruct the full score of Vaughan Williams' "A London Symphony," the autograph of which had been lost at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. At the beginning of the first world war, Butterworth enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall's Durham Light Infantry (he was known as G. S. Kaye-Butterworth in the army). He was killed at Pozieres, leading a raid during the Battle of the Somme.
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1.The Banks of Green WillowButterworth: The Banks of Green Willow; A Shropshire Lad/ /McGunn: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood/Coleridge-Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air &c.
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2.A Shropshire Lad "Rhapsody for Full Orchestra"Butterworth · Holst
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3.The Banks of Green WillowButterworth: Orchestral Works
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4.The Banks of Green WillowFantasia on Greensleeves
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5.I. Allegro scherzandoButterworth: Orchestral Works
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6.II. Adagio non troppoButterworth: Orchestral Works
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7.Two English Idylls : No. 2, Adagio non troppoButterworth · Holst
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8.The Banks of Green Willow "Idyll"The Banks of Green Willow "Idyll"
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9.The Banks of Green Willow - Idyll for orchestra - 2007 Remastered VersionElgar - Vaughan Williams - Butterworth
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10.Two English Idylls : No. 1, Allegro scherzandoButterworth · Holst
Discogs Release Info
Release: Butterworth*, James Rutherford, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Kriss Russmann - Orchestral Music
Year: 2016
Genres: Classical