The connections among the four works on this album are rather tenuous: they are all, the packaging informs, by composers who "were all affected by the carnage of World War I." In fact two of the four works, George Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad and Ivor Gurney's The Trumpet, were written before their composers experienced said carnage, while Vaughan Williams' An Oxford Elegy dates from 30 years later and is linked to the earlier pieces only by a third-party suggestion that the nostalgic mood of its 19th-century Matthew ...
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The connections among the four works on this album are rather tenuous: they are all, the packaging informs, by composers who "were all affected by the carnage of World War I." In fact two of the four works, George Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad and Ivor Gurney's The Trumpet, were written before their composers experienced said carnage, while Vaughan Williams' An Oxford Elegy dates from 30 years later and is linked to the earlier pieces only by a third-party suggestion that the nostalgic mood of its 19th-century Matthew Arnold text might have been linked in the composer's mind to deaths during the war. It's a somewhat shapeless work with long passages of text that are spoken for no very good reason, but it's not commonly performed, and it has an elusively attractive offbeat quality. The other two works are world premieres: Ivor Gurney's stirring antiwar work The Trumpet is presented in an orchestration (the original work is for four-part chorus alone) by Philip Lancaster that serves the Edward Thomas...
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