George Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad, Rhapsody for Orchestra.

In the years leading up to the First World War George Butterworth composed two song cycles of settings of poems from A.E. Housman’s “A Shropshire Lad“ and this evocative and poignant Rhapsody by way of an epilogue to them. Butterworth was just 31 when he was killed in action at Pozières, France during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The piece is played by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and conducted by Sir Neville Marriner. The photographs are all of Shropshire in its various moods and were sourced from the internet. The photographers are :- 1 Ian Egner, 2 Andrew Fusek Peters, 3 Nigel Forster, 4 Richard Langford, 5 Unknown, 6 Richard Greswell, 7 Geoff Moore, 8 Nigel Forster, 9 Unknown, 10 Matthew Lissimore and 11 Chris Hepburn.