Williams: Songs of Travel / Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad

Vaughan Williams (Composer), Butterworth (Composer), Ireland (Composer), Gurney (Composer), Warlock (Composer), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (Performer), David Willison (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, David Willison
• Composer: Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Ireland, Gurney, Warlock
• Audio CD (July 29, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Carlton / IMP Classics
• ASIN: B000000TPS
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #278,009 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Songs Of Travel: The Vagabond

2. Songs Of Travel: Let Beuaty Awake

3. Songs Of Travel: The Roadside Fire

4. Songs Of Travel: Youth And Love

5. Songs Of Travel: In Dreams

6. Songs Of Travel: The Infinite Shining Heavens

7. Songs Of Travel: Whither Must I Wander?

8. Songs Of Travel: Bright Is The Ring Of Words

9. Songs Of Travel: I Have Trod The Upward And The Downward Slope

10. A Shropshire Lad: Loveliest Of Trees

11. A Shropshire Lad: When I Was One-And-Twenty

12. A Shropshire Lad: Look Not In My Eyes

13. A Shropshire Lad: Think No More, Lad

14. A Shropshire Lad: The Lads In Their Hundreds

15. A Shropshire Lad: Is My Team Ploughing?

16. The Land Of Lost Content: The Lent Lily

17. The Land Of Lost Content: Ladslove

18. The Land Of Lost Content: Goal And Wicket

19. The Land Of Lost Content: The Vain Desire

20. The Land Of Lost Content: The Encounter

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Art Songs Come to Life, November 18, 1999

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Joan Rogers "hautcontre" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Williams: Songs of Travel / Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad (Audio CD)

Anthony Rolfe-Johnson seems born to sing these songs -- each of them might have been written for his small, perfectly-balanced tenor voice. %Rolfe-Johnson maintains seamless, soaring lyric lines while declaiming the text with intelligence and feeling. The Butterworth song "Lads-love" is a particularly fine example of expressive singing beautifully enhanced by a creamy, silvery timbre which is characteristic of the voice with intimate pieces such as these. Don't miss it!