Hirsch String Quartet. Roy Hender son (baritone)
George Butterworth was born in London in 1885 and was killed in action in 1916 at the age of thirty-one. One of his chief interests was folk dancing, and the influence of folk music showed itself in his music. Although he lived to compose only a few works, what he did leave, such as ' The Banks of Green Willow ' for orchestra, and the song cycles ' A Shrop.shire Lad ' and ' Love blows as the Wind blows ', showed the promise of a genius that might have blossomed out into one of the finest of modern British composers.