George Butterworth

George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC (12 July 1885 – 5 August 1916) was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad. He was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry during the fighting at Pozières in the First World War, and died in the Battle of the Somme.

Butterworth: Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' - 2023-03-31T00:00:00.000000Z

Song Cycles by Vaughan Williams and Butterworth - 2015-03-20T00:00:00.000000Z

The Complete Butterworth Songbook - 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

English Song Series, Vol. 20: Butterworth - 2010-07-27T00:00:00.000000Z

Fantasia on Greensleeves - 1997-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Entente Cordiale - 1989-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad - 2023-10-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (Orchestrated by Roderick Williams): No. 6, Is my team ploughing? - 2022-10-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Two English Idylls: I. Allegro moderato - 2022-06-11T00:00:00.000000Z

A Shropshire Lad - 2021-09-18T00:00:00.000000Z

The Banks of Green Willow - 2021-04-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Loveliest of Trees - 2019-09-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow - 2019-02-15T00:00:00.000000Z

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