Roderick Williams, Jeremy Irons, City of London Choir, London Mozart Players, Hilary Davan Wetton - Flowers of the Field (2014) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. A Shropshire Lad
02. Requiem da Camera: I. Prelude
03. Requiem da Camera: II. How Still This Quiet Cornfield Is To-Night
04. Requiem da Camera: III. Only a Man Harrowing Clods
05. Requiem da Camera: IV. We Who Are Left
06. The Trumpet
07. An Oxford Elegy



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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