George Butterworth

The best known piece of the young composer George Butterworth is a pastoral setting based on two English folk song melodies (The Banks of Green Willow and Green Bushes), and is similar to the composit...

The best known piece of the young composer George Butterworth is a pastoral setting based on two English folk song melodies (The Banks of Green Willow and Green Bushes), and is similar to the composit...

'A Shropshire Lad' is a collection of 63 poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman (1859 -1936). The poems tell of the transience of love and youth, and speak of duty to country, facing death be...

'A Shropshire Lad' is a collection of 63 poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman (1859 -1936). The poems tell of the transience of love and youth, and speak of duty to country, facing death be...

Diese Sammlung von vier Liedern von George Butterworth (1885-1916) vertont die Gedichte von William Ernest Henley für mittlere Stimme und Streichquartett. Im Jahr 1914 orchestrierte der Komponist die...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in A or Bb, 2 Bassoons 2 Horns in F, Trumpet in Bb, Harp Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Double Bass) George Butterworth was born in London on...

George Butterworth (1885-1916), an English composer whose life was cut short at the Battle of the Somme, wrote two song cycles based on A SHROPSHIRE LAD, a collection of 63 poems by A.E. Housman. Conc...

George Butterworth (1885-1916), an English composer whose life was cut short at the Battle of the Somme, wrote two song cycles based on A SHROPSHIRE LAD, a collection of 63 poems by A.E. Housman. Conc...

The best known piece of the young composer George Butterworth is a pastoral setting based on two English folk song melodies (The Banks of Green Willow and Green Bushes), and is similar to the composit...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in A or Bb, 2 Bassoons 2 Horns in F, Trumpet in Bb, Harp Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Double Bass) George Butterworth was born in London on...

In his brief career George Butterworth (1885-1916) composed only a small quantity of orchestral works, but what he wrote has never subsequently been absent from the repertoire. The two English Idylls,...

George Butterworth (1885-1916), ein englischer Komponist, dessen Leben durch die Schlacht an der Somme beendet wurde, schrieb zwei Liederzyklen auf der Grundlage von A SHROPSHIRE LAD, einer Sammlung v...

George Butterworth (1885-1916) war ein englischer Komponist, der nur wenige Kompositionen hinterliess. The Banks of Green Willow ist eines seiner bekannteren, regelmäßig aufgeführten Werke, das erahne...

George Butterworth (1885-1916) war ein englischer Komponist, der nur wenige Kompositionen hinterliess. The Banks of Green Willow ist eines seiner bekannteren, regelmäßig aufgeführten Werke, das erahne...

The Banks of Green Willow, das letzte vollendete Werk von George Butterworth (1885-1916), erinnert sowohl an die verblassende Welt des edwardianischen Pastoralismus als auch - durch das tragisch verkü...

This work is in the nature of an orchestral epilogue to the same composer's two sets of songs, the words of which are taken from Mr A. E. Housman's poem, A Shropshire Lad.

The Banks of Green Willow begins in pastorale mode with the title tune established in the Strings with solo clarinet. The work builds to quite a passionate climax before re-establishing the pastorale...

Love Blows as the Wind Blows (versions for voice and string quartet, voice and piano, and voice and small orchestra)