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

On this CD:

1. 1887 From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
Composed by A.E. Housman

2. Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad for voice & piano (or orchestra) 1. Loveliest of trees
Composed by George Butterworth
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

3. The Recruit ("Leave your home behind, lad")
Composed by A.E. Housman

4. Reveille ("Wake: the silver dusk returning")
Composed by A.E. Housman

5. Songs (3) from "A Shropshire Lad" Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
Composed by C.W. Orr
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

6. Bredon Hill and Other Songs for voice & piano, Nos 1-5, complete 3. When the lad for longing sighs
Composed by George Butterworth
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

7. When smoke stood up from Ludlow
Composed by A.E. Housman

8. Farewell to barn and stack and tree
Composed by A.E. Housman

9. On moonlit heath and lonesome bank
Composed by A.E. Housman

10. March ("The sun at noon to higher air...")
Composed by A.E. Housman

11. The Heart's Desire ("The boys are up the woods with day"), for voice & piano
Composed by John Ireland
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

12. On your midnight pallet lying
Composed by A.E. Housman

13. Songs (7) from "A Shropshire Lad" When I watch the living meet
Composed by C.W. Orr
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

14. Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad for voice & piano (or orchestra) When I was one-and-twenty
Composed by George Butterworth
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

15. There pass the careless people
Composed by A.E. Housman

16. Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad for voice & piano (or orchestra) Look not in my eyes
Composed by George Butterworth
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

17. It nods and curtseys and recovers
Composed by A.E. Housman

18. Goal and Wicket ("Twice a week the winter thorough"), for voice & piano
Composed by John Ireland
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

19. Oh, when I was in love with you
Composed by A.E. Housman

20. To An Athlete Dying Young ("The time you won your own race")
Composed by A.E. Housman

21. Oh fair enough are sky and plain, for voice & piano
Composed by E. J. Moeran
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

22. Bredon Hill and Other Songs for voice & piano, Nos 1-5, complete Bredon Hill ("In summertime on Bredon")
Composed by George Butterworth
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

23. The Encounter ("The street sounds to the soldiers' tread"), for voice & piano
Composed by John Ireland
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

24. The lads in their hundreds, for voice & piano
Composed by George Butterworth
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

25. Say, lad, have you things to do?
Composed by A.E. Housman

26. Songs (5) from "A Shropshire Lad" This time of year
Composed by C.W. Orr
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

27. Along the field as we came by
Composed by A.E. Housman

28. Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad for voice & piano (or orchestra) Is my team ploughing?
Composed by George Butterworth
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

29. The Welsh Marches ("High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam")
Composed by A.E. Housman

30. The Lent Lily ("'Tis spring; come out to ramble"), for voice & piano
Composed by John Ireland
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

31. Others, I am not the first
Composed by A.E. Housman

32. On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
Composed by A.E. Housman

33. From far, from eve and morning
Composed by A.E. Housman

34. The Vain Desire ("If truth in hearts that perish"), for voice & piano
Composed by John Ireland
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

35. The New Mistress ("Oh, sick I am to see you")
Composed by A.E. Housman

36. Bredon Hill and Other Songs for voice & piano, Nos 1-5, complete On the idle hill of summer
Composed by George Butterworth
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

37. White in the moon the long road lies, for voice & piano
Composed by Mervyn Horder
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

38. As through the wild green hills of Wyre
Composed by A.E. Housman

39. The winds out of the west land blow
Composed by A.E. Housman

40. Hawthorn Time ("'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town"), for voice & piano
Composed by John Ireland
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

41. Songs (3) from "A Shropshire Lad" Into my heart an air that kills
Composed by C.W. Orr
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

42. In my own shire, if I was sad
Composed by A.E. Housman

43. The Merry Guide ("Once in the wind of Morning")
Composed by A.E. Housman

44. The Immortal Part ("When I meet the morning beam")
Composed by A.E. Housman

45. Shot? so quick, so clean an ending?
Composed by A.E. Housman

46. Because I liked you better (from More Poems), for voice & piano
Composed by Sir Lennox Berkeley
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

47. He would not stay for me (from Additional Poems), for voice & piano
Composed by Sir Lennox Berkeley
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

48. If it chance your eye offend you
Composed by A.E. Housman

49. Bring, in this timeless grave to throw
Composed by A.E. Housman

50. The Carpenter's Son ("Here the hangman stops his cart")
Composed by A.E. Housman

51. Be still, my soul, be still
Composed by A.E. Housman

52. Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad for voice & piano (or orchestra) Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly
Composed by George Butterworth
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

53. In valleys of springs or rivers
Composed by A.E. Housman

54. Loitering with a vacant eye
Composed by A.E. Housman

55. Far in a western brookland
Composed by E. J. Moeran
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

56. The True Lover ("The lad came to the door at night")
Composed by A.E. Housman

57. With rue my heart is laden, for voice & piano, Op. 2/2
Composed by Samuel Barber
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

58. Westward on the high-hilled plains
Composed by A.E. Housman

59. The Day of Battle ("Far I hear the bugle blow")
Composed by A.E. Housman

60. Epilogue ("You smile upon your friend to-day"), for voice & piano
Composed by John Ireland
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

61. When I came last to Ludlow
Composed by A.E. Housman

62. The Isle of Portland ("The star-filled seas are smooth to-night"), for voice & piano
Composed by C.W. Orr
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

63. Now hollow fires burn out to black
Composed by A.E. Housman

64. Songs (7) from "A Shropshire Lad" Hughley Steeple ("The vane on Hughley steeple")
Composed by C.W. Orr
Performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

65. Terence, this is stupid stuff
Composed by A.E. Housman

66. I hoed and trenched and weeded
Composed by A.E. Housman