A.E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad, Complete in verse and song (2005)

Track Listing

1. 1887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
2. Songs (6) from "A Shropshire Lad," for voice & piano (or orchestra): No. 1, Loveliest of trees
3. The Recruit ("Leave your home behind, lad")
4. Reveille ("Wake: the silver dusk returning")
5. Songs (3) from "A Shropshire Lad": Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers

1. 1887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
2. Songs (6) from "A Shropshire Lad," for voice & piano (or orchestra): No. 1, Loveliest of trees
3. The Recruit ("Leave your home behind, lad")
4. Reveille ("Wake: the silver dusk returning")
5. Songs (3) from "A Shropshire Lad": Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
6. Bredon Hill and Other Songs, songs (5) for voice & piano: No. 3, When the lad for longing sighs
7. When smoke stood up from Ludlow
8. Farewell to barn and stack and tree
9. On moonlit heath and lonesome bank
10. March ("The sun at noon to higher air...")
11. The Heart's Desire (The boys are up the woods with day), for voice & piano
12. On your midnight pallet lying
13. Songs (7) from "A Shropshire Lad": No. 2, When I watch the living meet
14. Songs (6) from "A Shropshire Lad," for voice & piano (or orchestra): No. 2, When I was one-and-twenty
15. There pass the careless people
16. Songs (6) from "A Shropshire Lad," for voice & piano (or orchestra): No. 3, Look not in my eyes
17. It nods and curtseys and recovers
18. Goal and wicket (Twice a week the winter thorough), for voice & piano (from "The Land of Lost Content")
19. Oh, when I was in love with you
20. To An Athlete Dying Young ("The time you won your own race")
21. Oh fair enough are sky and plain, for voice & piano
22. Bredon Hill and Other Songs, songs (5) for voice & piano: No. 1, Bredon Hill. In summertime on Bredon
23. The encounter (The street sounds to the soldiers' tread), for voice & piano (from "The Land of Lost Content")
24. Songs (6) from "A Shropshire Lad," for voice & piano (or orchestra): No. 5, The lads in their hundreds
25. Say, lad, have you things to do?
26. This Time of Year
27. Along the field as we came by
28. Songs (6) from "A Shropshire Lad," for voice & piano (or orchestra): No. 6, Is my team ploughing?
29. The Welsh Marches ("High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam")
30. The Lent lily ('Tis spring; come out to ramble), for voice & piano (from "The Land of Lost Content")
31. Others, I am not the first
32. On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
33. From far, from eve and morning
34. The vain desire (If truth in hearts that perish), for voice & piano (from "The Land of Lost Content")
35. The New Mistress ("Oh, sick I am to see you")
36. Bredon Hill and Other Songs, songs (5) for voice & piano: No. 4, On the idle hill of summer
37. White in the moon the long road lies, for voice & piano
38. As through the wild green hills of Wyre
39. The winds out of the west land blow
40. Hawthorn Time ('Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town), for voice & piano
41. Into My Heart an Air That Kills
42. In my own shire, if I was sad
43. The Merry Guide ("Once in the wind of Morning")
44. The Immortal Part ("When I meet the morning beam")
45. Shot? so quick, so clean an ending?
46. Housman Songs (5), for high voice & piano, Op. 14/3: Because I liked you better
47. Housman Songs (5), for high voice & piano, Op. 14/3: He would not stay for me
48. If it chance your eye offend you
49. Bring, in this timeless grave to throw
50. The Carpenter's Son ("Here the hangman stops his cart")
51. Be still, my soul, be still
52. Songs (6) from "A Shropshire Lad," for voice & piano (or orchestra): No. 4, Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly
53. In valleys of springs or rivers
54. Loitering with a vacant eye
55. Far in a western brookland
56. The True Lover ("The lad came to the door at night")
57. With rue my heart is laden, for voice & piano, Op. 2/2
58. Westward on the high-hilled plains
59. The Day of Battle ("Far I hear the bugle blow")
60. Epilogue (You smile upon your friend to-day), for voice & piano (from "The Land of Lost Content")
61. When I came last to Ludlow
62. The Isle of Portland ("The star-filled seas are smooth to-night"), for voice & piano
63. Now hollow fires burn out to black
64. Songs (7) from "A Shropshire Lad": Hughley Steeple. The vane on Hughley steeple
65. Terence, this is stupid stuff
66. I hoed and trenched and weeded