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Boult Conducts Butterworth, Warlock, Hadley, Howells

4/1/2007, 11 Tracks, 1:08:50

Featuring

  • Sir Adrian Boult
  • Herbert Downes
  • Desmond Bradley
  • Gillian Eastwood
  • Albert Cayzler
  • Norman Jones
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • New Philharmonia Orchestra
  • George Butterworth
  • Peter Warlock
  • Patrick Hadley
  • Herbert Howells

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Composer Biography

George Butterworth, a composer of great promise, was tragically killed by a sniper's bullet on the Somme in 1916.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Howells' Music for a Prince was commissioned to celebrate the birth of Prince Charles in November 1948, and it reworked movements from his earlier orchestral suite The B's.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Adrian Boult, who later became a renowned conductor, made his first public conducting engagement with a professional orchestra at the premiere of Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow in 1914.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The Banks of Green Willow, Butterworth's last completed work from 1913, demonstrates his growing orchestral mastery.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Butterworth's friendship with Ralph Vaughan Williams, who dedicated his A London Symphony to Butterworth, and Cecil Sharp led to his involvement in folk-song collecting and folk dancing.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Howells' Elegy was written in memory of his College friend 'Bunny' Warren, a viola scholar and composer, who was killed in action at Mons in 1916.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Butterworth destroyed any scores he was dissatisfied with before going to France in 1915, resulting in a small surviving output.

Source: Booklet

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