Category: Tone Poem

• Hills (blue remembered and other)

  August 31, 2020

  Classical music, Orchestral, Piano music, Solo, Song, Tone Poem, Vocal

  Beethoven, Butterworth, Debussy, Smetana, Vaughan Williams

  On the idle hill of summer,Sleepy with the flow of streams… Concert: A. E. Housman’s dark rural world in A Shropshire Lad, with its contrasts of pastoral beauty and human tragedy, finds its musical equivalent in the work of George Butterworth; firstly, in Butterworth’s settings of Housman’s verse for voice and piano and then in…