tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7807018700599489326.post5731993434680436279..comments2024-03-24T07:52:17.996+00:00Comments on British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: George Butterworth: Orchestral Music on BISJohn Francehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661182422946581010noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7807018700599489326.post-32455330175396322582018-11-14T06:35:55.030+00:002018-11-14T06:35:55.030+00:00Thanks for that!
John FThanks for that!<br /><br />John FJohn Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11450264096307177111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7807018700599489326.post-21519856839568907312018-11-14T05:59:11.568+00:002018-11-14T05:59:11.568+00:00The "Shropshire Lad" Rhapsody is an epil...The "Shropshire Lad" Rhapsody is an epilogue to Butterworth's two sets of Housman songs, not just the Six Songs. As such it quotes the first of the Six Songs and the last of Bredon Hill and Other Songs. I have orchestrated them all - my version of the Six Songs was given the 2014 Proms, sung by Roderick Williams.<br /><br />I, too, enjoy both realizations of the Fantasia. Trouble is that the score ends with 11 bars of Vivace - yet there's no sign of a Vivace in either realization. Writing endless bars of nostalgic 'pastoral' music is not enough. Herbert Howells was asked to make a realization in the 1960s but declined, saying there isn't enough there.<br /><br />The BIS CD is lovely, though. One thing that might have been done would have been to record the English Idyll 3, the score of which is in the Bodleian. It is identical in structure to The Banks of Green Willow, but is for a slightly larger orchestra, and almost everything in it is subtly different, rhythm-wise. It's probably from 1912 Banks is 1913). Butterworth was a superb reviser - I'd never, ever, want the fourth song restored in Love Blows, for instance, since the whole vocal line and structure are different.Phillip Brookeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03393571182986093351noreply@blogger.com