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4/22/2026

A Shropshire Lad - English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams

A Shropshire Lad

Orchestrations by Roderick Williams

John Ireland (1914-1992)

Great Things

Sea Fever

Ina Boyle (1889-1967)

The Joy of Earth

William Denis Browne (1888-191

To Gratiana dancing and singing

George Butterworth (1885-1916)

Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’

Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)

The pulley

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

The House of Life

Madeleine Dring (1923-1977)

Take, O take those lips away

James Burton (b.1974)

When I set out for Lyonesse

Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)

The seal man

Ernest Farrar (1885-1918)

Silent noon

Roderick Williams (baritone)

The Hallé Orchestra

Mark Elder

rec. 2022, Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester

John Ireland - Piano Concerto; Legend; First Rhapsody

John IRELAND (1879-1962)

Piano Concerto in E flat (1930)

Legend for piano and orchestra (1933)

First Rhapsody (1906)

Pastoral (1896)*

Indian Summer (1932)*

A Sea Idyll (1900)

Three Dances (1913)

John Lenehan (piano)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

John Wilson

rec. Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, 3 March 2007, 12 March 2011;

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 18-19 February 2011.

*World Premiere Recordings

Boult conducts Ireland

John IRELAND (1879-1962)

Tritons, symphonic prelude (c.1905) [10:29]
The Forgotten Rite, prelude (1913) [7:07]
Mai-Dun, symphonic rhapsody (1920-21) [11:23]
A London Overture (1936) [11:57]
Epic March (1942) [8:12]
Themes from Julius Caesar (arr. Geoffrey Bush) (Scherzo; Cortège) (1942) [6:45]
The Overlanders, suite (ed. Charles Mackerras) (Scorched Earth; Mary & Sailor; Open Country; The Brumbies; Night Stampede) (1946-47) [20:07]

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Adrian Boult

rec. 1960s. ADD
recordings originally made in association with John Ireland Trust