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Butterworth, G - Two English Idylls
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Special offer. Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad; Holst: Egdon Heath, St. Paul's Suite
RecommendedAndrew Manze (violin), Cormac Henry, Helena Mackie, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
The playing and recording are superlative and this moving collection can be recommended without reservation. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st October 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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British Music Collection - George Butterworth
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), David Willison (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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George Butterworth: Orchestral Works
RecommendedJames Rutherford (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Kriss Russman
[Russman] brings out the poignant lyricism with exceptional freshness and strength…to the AE Housman settings James Rutherford brings characteristic mellow-toned vigour and expressive delivery…congratulations... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Boult conducts ...
Herbert Downes (viola), Desmond Bradley & Gillian Eastwood (violins), Albert Cayzer (viola) & Norman Jones (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
…sympathetic accounts… Butterworth's Two English Idylls, The Banks of Freen Willow and the sublime Shropshire Lad rhapsody. Tension levels rise markedly for exceptionally insightful readings... —
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Special offer. Made in Britain
James Clark (violin)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson
[Clark's] playing has rapturous firepower...John Wilson's conducting secures ultra-vivid, sparklingly finished performances that also respond memorably to the quieter moments —
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the Delius items...are lovely performances, warm, tender and eloquent. They are superbly played and recorded in a splendid acoustic. The recording is beautifully balanced - the distant cuckoo... —
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Butterworth & Coleridge-Taylor: Orchestral Works
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Grant Llewellyn
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The End of Time
Works by George Butterworth and Rudi Stephan
Ensemble aix, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Kazem Abdullah
These works, which reflected Stephan's strongly formalist desire to allow the music to express itself without any additional descriptive appendages...brought Stephan's name forward as one of... —
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$31.50