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Five works to try after Butterworth’s Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad
After completing his two sets of songs setting Housman’s poems, also composed a related ‘orchestral rhapsody’ that he eventually called (he jettisoned two earlier titles, and ). A work of extraordinary poignance, it opens with a mournful stillness before a clarinet solo plays a melody, recognisable from his ‘Loveliest of trees’, that provides the main theme. (Hallé Orchestra/Mark Elder ).
