PART II
SOME of the loveliest music of this century was left us by George Butterworth , who was killed in action in France, in August, 1916.
Of his small output, two song-cycles and this orchestral Rhapsody are founded on A. E. Housman 's poem-cycle, A Shropshire Lad. The song-cycles are, of course, settings of certain of the poems, while the Rhapsody is a sort of epilogue to the song-cycles-a reverie, perhaps, on the whole of A Shropshire Lad.
BELLA BAILLIE Selected Songs
WALTER WIDDOP Selected Songs