Episode #26: A grand mysterious harmony
Uploaded: August 21, 2021
George Butterworth: Bredon Hill and other songs
I. Bredon Hill [4:44]
II. Oh fair enough are sky and plain [3:17]
III. When the lad for longing sighs [1:44]
IV. On the idle hill of summer [3:08]
V. With rue my heart is laden [1:54]
Bryn Terfel, baritone
Malcolm Martineau, piano
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 445 946-2
George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad [10:19]
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
LONDON 421 391-2
George Butterworth: Six songs from “A Shropshire Lad”
I. Loveliest of trees [2:40]
II. When I was one-and-twenty [1:25]
III. Look not in my eyes [2:02]
IV. Think no more, lad [1:23]
V. The lads in their hundreds [2:25]
VI. Is my team ploughing? [3:57]
Bryn Terfel, baritone
Malcolm Martineau, piano
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 445 946-2
Sir Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38
Part I [36:01]
Part II [54:49]
Yvonne Milton, mezzo-soprano
Sir Peter Pears, tenor
John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
London Symphony Chorus
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, conductor
DECCA 448 170-2
