Heracleitus
Label: Catalog: EMRCD036 Format: COMPACT DISC Dussek, Michael; Bridge String Quartet; Daniels, CharlesThis release marks the centenary of George Butterworth’s death on the Somme in 1916; his all-too-brief flowering as a composer in the years immediately before the War produced works which have won an established place in the repertoire, but one of his significant works, the Suite for String Quartet, has been little performed and this is its premiere British recording. Ivor Gurney was another promising young composer who was a victim of the War; he survived, but with his health destroyed, and spent his last years in a mental institution. Both Gurney and Butterworth wrote settings of AE Housman’s poems A Shropshire Lad, and this release includes Gurney’s cycle Ludlow and Teme as well as songs from Butterworth’s cycle Bredon Hill. Alongside these are other songs by both composers and by Peter Warlock picking up the themes of A Shropshire Lad- love, loss and war. Price: $27.98 |