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Choral Music - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, R. / FINZI, G. / GURNEY, I. (Flowers of the Field) (City of London Choir, London Mozart Players, Wetton)
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Choral Music - VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, R. / FINZI, G. / GURNEY, I. (Flowers of the Field) (City of London Choir, London Mozart Players, Wetton)
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These composers were all affected by the carnage of World War I, and their elegiac music expresses regret and lost innocence, love won and lost, sacrifice and death. George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad, conceived as an epilogue to his Housman song cycles, encapsulates the poet’s sense of life’s transience. Ivor Gurney was both shot and gassed in 1917, and The Trumpet pleads with mankind to set aside the folly of war. Heard here in a new completion, Gerald Finzi’s Requiem da Camera mourns the death of his mentor Ernest Farrar and those of other fallen artists, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s An Oxford Elegy recalls lost friends with an intense and magical nostalgia.
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Butterworth, George

A Shropshire Lad
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A Shropshire Lad
00:10:22
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Finzi, Gerald Masefield, John / Hardy, Thomas / Gibson, Wilfred, lyricist(s) Alexander, Christian, arranger(s)

Requiem da Camera (completed and edited by C. Alexander)
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I. Prelude
00:05:20
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II. How still this quiet cornfield is to - night
00:09:14
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III. Only a man harrowing clods
00:03:37
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IV. We who are left
00:04:18
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Gurney, Ivor Thomas, Edward, lyricist(s) Lancaster, Philip, arranger(s)

The Trumpet (edited and orchestrated by P. Lancaster)
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The Trumpet (edited and orchestrated by P. Lancaster)
00:05:45
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Vaughan Williams, Ralph Arnold, Matthew, lyricist(s)

An Oxford Elegy
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An Oxford Elegy
00:22:01
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Total Playing Time:
01:00:37
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Composer(s):
Butterworth, George; Finzi, Gerald; Gurney, Ivor; Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Lyricist(s):
Arnold, Matthew; Gibson, Wilfred; Hardy, Thomas; Masefield, John; Thomas, Edward
Arranger(s):
Alexander, Christian; Lancaster, Philip
Conductor(s):
Wetton, Hilary Davan
Orchestra(s):
London Mozart Players
Choir(s):
City of London Choir
Artist(s):
Bagnall, David; Harbinson, Natasha; Irons, Jeremy; Tidbury, Emily; Williams, Roderick
Label: Naxos Genre: Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Orchestral Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No:
8.573426
Barcode:
747313342679
Release Date: 11/2014
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