Hyperion Various 2 CD Shropshire Lad

Alan Bates (reader), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

CDD22044 (Originally issued on CDA66471/2)

Recording details: January 1995
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown & Graham Johnson
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 2001
Total duration: 115 minutes 1 seconds

Track listing
A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
CD1 1 No 01: 1887 'From Clee to heaven the beacon burns' 1:45

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (Butterworth)
2 No 1: Loveliest of trees 3:11

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
3 No 03: The Recruit 'Leave your home behind, lad' 1:09
4 No 04: Reveille 'Wake, the silver dusk returning' 1:03

Three Songs from A Shropshire Lad (Orr)
5 No 3: Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers 4:34

Bredon Hill and other songs (Butterworth)
6 No 3: When the lad for longing sighs 1:56

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
7 No 07: When smoke stood up from Ludlow 1:17
8 No 08: Farewell to barn and stack and tree 1:03
9 No 09: On moonlit heath and lonesome bank 1:27
10 No 10: March 'The sun and noon to higher air' 0:25
11
The heart's desire (Ireland) 'The boys are up the woods with day' 2:27

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
12 No 11: On your midnight pallet lying 0:36

A Cycle of Seven Songs from A Shropshire Lad (Orr)
13 No 2: When I watch the living meet 3:12

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (Butterworth)
14 No 2: When I was one-and-twenty 1:17

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
15 No 14: There pass the careless people 1:00

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (Butterworth)
16 No 3: Look not in my eyes 2:13

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
17 No 16: It nods and curtseys and recovers 0:26

The land of lost content (Ireland)
18 No 3: Goal and wicket 'Twice a week the winter through' 1:09

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
19 No 18: Oh, when I was in love with you 0:18
20 No 19: To an athlete dying young 'The time you won your town the race' 1:37
21
Oh fair enough are sky and plain (Moeran) 2:14

Bredon Hill and other songs (Butterworth)
22 No 1: Bredon Hill 'In summertime on Bredon' 4:39

The land of lost content (Ireland)
23 : The Encounter 'The street sounds to the soldiers' tread' 1:19

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (Butterworth)
24 No 5: The lads in their hundreds 2:02

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
25 No 24: Say, lad, have you things to do? 0:30
26
This time of year (Orr) 2:18

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
27 No 26: Along the field as we came by 1:00

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (Butterworth)
28 No 6: Is my team ploughing? 3:39

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
29 No 28: The Welsh marshes 'High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam' 1:57

The land of lost content (Ireland)
30 No 1: The Lent Lily ''Tis spring; come out to ramble' 2:34

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
31 No 30: Others, I am not the first 0:49
32 No 31: On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble 1:09
CD2 1 No 32: From far, from eve and morning 0:36

The land of lost content (Ireland)
2 No 4: The vain desire 'If truth in hearts that perish' 2:28

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
3 No 34: The new mistress 'Oh, sick I am to see you' 1:09

Bredon Hill and other songs (Butterworth)
4 No 4: On the idle hill of summer 3:36
5
White in the moon the long road lies (Horder) 2:18

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
6 No 37: As through the wild green hills of Wyre 1:49
7 No 38: The winds outof the west land blow 0:57
8
Hawthorn Time (Ireland) ''tis time, I think, by Wenlock town' 1:41
9
Into my heart an air that kills (Orr) 2:46

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
10 No 41: In my own shire, if I was sad 1:35
11 No 42: The Merry Guide 'Once in the wind of morning' 2:13
12 No 43: The Immortal Part 'When I meet the morning beam' 2:23
13 No 44: Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? 1:36

Five Songs, Op 14 No 3 (Berkeley)
14 No 5: Because I liked you better 2:30
15 No 3: He would not stay for me 1:32

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
16 No 45: If it chance you eye offends you 0:27
17 No 46: Bring, in this timeless grave to throw 1:07
18 No 47: The Carpenter's Son 'Here the hangman stops his cart' 1:44
19 No 48: Be still, my soul, be still 1:38

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (Butterworth)
20 No 4: Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly 1:20

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
21 No 50: In valleys of springs and rivers 1:15
22 No 51: Loitering with a vacant eye 1:14
23
Far in a western brookland (Moeran) 2:40

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
24 No 53: The True Lover 'The lad came to the door at night' 1:44

Three Songs, Op 2 (Barber/Housman)
25 No 2: With rue my heart is laden 1:15

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
26 No 55: Westward on the high-hilled plains 0:42
27 No 56: The Day of Battle 'Far I hear the bugle blow' 0:51

The land of lost content (Ireland)
28 No 6: Epilogue 'You smile upon your friend today' 1:34

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
29 No 58: When I came last to Ludlow 0:21
30
The Isle of Portland (Orr) 'The star-filled seas are smooth tonight' 3:44

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
31 No 60: Now hollow fires burn out to black 0:19

A Cycle of Seven Songs from A Shropshire Lad (Orr)
32 No 6: Hughley Steeple 'The vane on Hughley steeple' 2:59

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)
33 No 62: Terence, this is stupid stuff 3:49
34 No 63: I hoed and trenched and weeded 0:54