tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post7401578816125109933..comments2024-03-05T10:14:38.181+00:00Comments on CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST: George Butterworth in the Trenches.Doundou Tchilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469682216179706743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-25821418586247425622008-08-06T13:39:00.000+01:002008-08-06T13:39:00.000+01:00English William Shatners ! Fantastic ! Exactly !...English William Shatners ! Fantastic ! Exactly ! Unfortunately most of the recordings of the songs are delivered in a pretentiously stuffy way, quite unsuitable to music about youth and purity, but maybe evoke a fake antique pre 1914 era. Rolfe Johnson and Maltmann are the best I think for capturing the idiom rather than the oldeworlde "image". Keenlyside, Roderick Williams have sung them too, live.Doundou Tchilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07469682216179706743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-2090507183664552812008-08-06T09:59:00.000+01:002008-08-06T09:59:00.000+01:00Oh wow, there's more. This is just splendid. Sor...Oh wow, there's more. This is just splendid. Sorry to gush, I just think Butterworth might have been England's great lost musical voice.Evan Tuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04552209699238979904noreply@blogger.com