A Shropshire Lad: Complete in Verse & Song

Album by A. E. Housman; Alan Bates, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

Released 1 May 1995

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    A Shropshire Lad: 1887
    A. E. Housman
    1:50
  • 2
    6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 1. Loveliest of Trees
    George Butterworth
    3:15
  • 3
    A Shropshire Lad: The Recruit
    A. E. Housman
    1:14
  • 4
    A Shropshire Lad: Reveille
    A. E. Housman
    1:07
  • 5
    3 Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 3. Oh See How Thick the Goldcup Flowers
    C. W. Orr
    4:40
  • 6
    Bredon Hill and Other Songs: III. When the Lad for Longing Sighs
    George Butterworth
    2:02
  • 7
    A Shropshire Lad: When Smoke Stood Up from Ludlow
    A. E. Housman
    1:24
  • 8
    A Shropshire Lad: Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree
    A. E. Housman
    1:11
  • 9
    A Shropshire Lad: On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank
    A. E. Housman
    1:32
  • 10
    A Shropshire Lad: March
    A. E. Housman
    0:25
  • 11
    The Heart's Desire
    John Ireland
    2:33
  • 12
    On Your Midnight Pallet Lying
    A. E. Housman
    0:38
  • 13
    A Cycle of 7 Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 2. When I Watch the Living Meet
    C. W. Orr
    3:17
  • 14
    6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 2. When I Was One-and-Twenty
    George Butterworth
    1:24
  • 15
    A Shropshire Lad: There Pass the Careless People
    A. E. Housman
    1:02
  • 16
    6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 3. Look Not in My Eyes
    George Butterworth
    2:18
  • 17
    A Shropshire Lad: It Nods and Curtseys and Recovers
    A. E. Housman
    0:29
  • 18
    The Land of Lost Content: III. Goal and Wicket
    John Ireland
    1:13
  • 19
    A Shropshire Lad: Oh, When Was in Love with You
    A. E. Housman
    0:24
  • 20
    A Shropshire Lad: To an Athlete Dying Young
    A. E. Housman
    1:41
  • 21
    Oh Fair Enough Are Sky and Plain
    Ernest John Moeran
    2:21
  • 22
    Bredon Hill and Other Songs: I. Bredon Hill
    George Butterworth
    4:44
  • 23
    The Land of Lost Content: V. The Encounter
    John Ireland
    1:23
  • 24
    6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 4. Think No More, Lad
    George Butterworth
    2:05
  • 25
    A Shropshire Lad: Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do?
    A. E. Housman
    0:35
  • 26
    This Time of Year
    C. W. Orr
    2:20
  • 27
    A Shropshire Lad: Along the Field as We Came By
    A. E. Housman
    1:03
  • 28
    6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 5. The Lads in Their Hundreds
    George Butterworth
    3:46
  • 29
    A Shropshire Lad: The Welsh Marches
    A. E. Housman
    2:00
  • 30
    The Land of Lost Content: I. The Lent Lily
    John Ireland
    2:37
  • 31
    A Shropshire Lad: Others, I am not the First
    A. E. Housman
    0:56
  • 32
    A Shropshire Lad: On Wenlock Edge the Wood's in Trouble
    A. E. Housman
    1:10
  • CD 2
  • 1
    A Shropshire Lad: From Far, from Eve and Morning
    A. E. Housman
    0:38
  • 2
    The Land of Lost Content: IV. The Vain Desire
    John Ireland
    2:31
  • 3
    A Shropshire Lad: The New Mistress
    A. E. Housman
    1:13
  • 4
    Bredon Hill and Other Songs: IV. On the Idle Hill of Summer
    George Butterworth
    3:42
  • 5
    White in the Moon the Long Road Lies
    Mervyn Horder
    2:24
  • 6
    A Shropshire Lad: As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre
    A. E. Housman
    1:54
  • 7
    A Shropshire Lad: The Winds Out of the West Land Blow
    A. E. Housman
    1:00
  • 8
    Hawthorn Time
    John Ireland
    1:43
  • 9
    Into My Heart an Air That Kills
    C. W. Orr
    2:51
  • 10
    A Shropshire Lad: In My Own Shire, If Was Sad
    A. E. Housman
    1:41
  • 11
    A Shropshire Lad: The Merry Guide
    A. E. Housman
    2:20
  • 12
    A Shropshire Lad: The Immortal Part
    A. E. Housman
    2:29
  • 13
    A Shropshire Lad: Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending?
    A. E. Housman
    1:40
  • 14
    5 Songs, op. 14 no. 3: V. Because I Liked You Better
    Lennox Berkeley
    2:34
  • 15
    5 Songs, op. 14 no. 3: III. He Would Not Stay for Me
    Lennox Berkeley
    1:35
  • 16
    A Shropshire Lad: If It Chance Your Eye Offend You
    A. E. Housman
    0:32
  • 17
    A Shropshire Lad: Bring, in This Timeless Grave to Throw
    A. E. Housman
    1:13
  • 18
    A Shropshire Lad: The Carpenter's Son
    A. E. Housman
    1:49
  • 19
    A Shropshire Lad: Be Still, My Soul, Be Still
    A. E. Housman
    1:42
  • 20
    6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 6. Is My Team Ploughing?
    George Butterworth
    1:26
  • 21
    A Shropshire Lad: In Valleys of Springs and Rivers
    A. E. Housman
    1:23
  • 22
    A Shropshire Lad: Loitering with a Vacant Eye
    A. E. Housman
    1:20
  • 23
    Far in a Western Brookland
    Ernest John Moeran
    2:43
  • 24
    A Shropshire Lad: The True Lover
    A. E. Housman
    1:48
  • 25
    3 Songs, op. 2: No. 2. With Rue My Heart Is Laden. Andante cantabile
    Samuel Barber
    1:19
  • 26
    A Shropshire Lad: Westward on the High-Hilled Plains
    A. E. Housman
    0:48
  • 27
    A Shropshire Lad: The Day of Battle
    A. E. Housman
    0:56
  • 28
    The Land of Lost Content: VI. Epilogue
    John Ireland
    1:39
  • 29
    A Shropshire Lad: When Came Last to Ludlow
    A. E. Housman
    0:26
  • 30
    The Isle of Portland
    C. W. Orr
    3:50
  • 31
    A Shropshire Lad: Now Hollow Fires Burn Out to Black
    A. E. Housman
    0:26
  • 32
    A Cycle of 7 Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 6. Hughley Steeple
    C. W. Orr
    3:05
  • 33
    A Shropshire Lad: Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
    A. E. Housman
    3:56
  • 34
    A Shropshire Lad: Hoed and Trenched and Weeded
    A. E. Housman
    0:56

More by A. E. Housman, Alan Bates, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

Release credits

  • spoken vocals [2.1, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.10-13, 2.16-19, 2.21-22, 2.24, 2.26-27, 2.29, 2.31, 2.33-34, 1.1, 1.3-4, 1.7-10, 1.12, 1.15, 1.17, 1.19-20, 1.25, 1.27, 1.29, 1.31-32]
  • tenor vocals [1.2, 1.5-6, 1.11, 1.13-14, 1.16, 1.18, 1.21-24, 1.26, 1.28, 1.30, 2.2, 2.4-5, 2.8-9, 2.14-15, 2.20, 2.23, 2.25, 2.28, 2.30, 2.32]
  • piano [1.2, 1.5-6, 1.11, 1.13-14, 1.16, 1.18, 1.21-24, 1.26, 1.28, 1.30, 2.2, 2.4-5, 2.8-9, 2.14-15, 2.20, 2.23, 2.25, 2.28, 2.30, 2.32]

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