One That Kept His Word: AE Housman in songs and letters
A unique portrait of the complex, difficult man behind ‘A Shropshire Lad’, devised by Iain Burnside.

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Arthur Somervell ‘Loveliest of Trees the Cherry now’ from A Shropshire Lad

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John Ireland ‘Goal and wicket’ from Land of Lost Content 

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Martin Bussey ‘O when I was in love with you’ from Blue Remembered Hills

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EJ Moeran ‘Far in a western brookland’ from Four Songs from A Shropshire Lad

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Moeran ‘Say, lad, have you things to do?’ from Ludlow Town 

 

Elaine Hugh-Jones ‘Eight O’Clock’ from Two Songs of Fate

 

Benjamin Burrows Bredon Hill

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Arnold Bax ‘When I was one-and-twenty’ from Three Songs

 

Lennox Berkeley ‘He would not stay for me’ from Five Housman Songs, Op 14 No 3

 

Rebecca Clarke Eight O’Clock  

 

Burrows The Soldiers

 

Somervell ‘The Street sounds to the Soldiers' tread’ from A Shropshire Lad

 

Burrows Grenadier

 

Moeran ‘Farewell to barn and stack and tree’ from Ludlow Town

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George Butterworth ‘On the idle hill of summer’ from Bredon Hill and Other Songs

 

Somervell ‘White in the moon the long road lies’ from A Shropshire Lad

 

Ireland ‘The encounter’ from Land of Lost Content 

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Roderick Williams Eight O’Clock

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Ireland ‘We’ll to the woods no more’ from We'll to the Woods No More

 

Morfydd Owen When I came last to Ludlow

 

Butterworth ‘Is my team ploughing?’ from Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad  

 

Butterworth ‘With rue my heart is laden’ from Bredon Hill and Other Songs

 

Somervell ‘Into my Heart an Air that kills’ from A Shropshire Lad ​​​