Ned Rorem: Selected songs
Butterworth: Six songs from A Shropshire Lad; Bredon Hill and other songs
Schumann: Dichterliebe

Time Magazine called Ned Rorem ‘the world’s best composer of art songs’. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, he ranks as one of America’s most honoured composers and has a catalogue of over 500 songs and cycles.

In a tragic irony, Butterworth, who set A E Housman’s poems reflecting on the second Boer War, was killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

Dichterliebe is one of Schumann’s most admired works. Settings of poems by Heinrich Heine, it traces a bitter journey of unrequited love.

"one of the peerless singer-actors of our generation ... heart-stoppingly lyrical as well as forceful" (The Guardian)

"a quite outstanding performance of Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad ... carried the scene and the bloom of spring in the voice" (The Times)

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