This is one of the works that I am considering entering as one of my selection of three to the Classic FM Hall of Fame 2015. This exquisite piece A Shropshire Lad Rhapsody by George Butterworth is a miniature symphonic poem based on his setting of A.E. Housman's Loveliest of trees. The programmatic subtext is one of conflict culminating in death. Butterworth died young, being killed in action in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 when he was thirty-one.
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