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Song cycle composed by George Butterworth in 1912 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bredon Hill and Other Songs is a song cycle for baritone and piano composed by George Butterworth (1885–1916) in 1912. It sets five poems from A. E. Housman's 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad.
Butterworth set another six poems from A Shropshire Lad in Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (1911). Nine of the eleven songs were premiered at Oxford on 16 May 1911, by James Campbell McInnes (baritone) and the composer (piano).[1][2][3]
A performance typically takes 15 minutes. The songs are as follows, with Roman numerals from A Shropshire Lad:[4]
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