The programme performed here by baritone Christopher Maltman and pianist Joseph Middleton was born whilst Maltmann was studying at the Royal Academy of Music. The compositions have been selected to form a coherent but flexible narrative that produces a touching memoire to all those affected by war. One composer chosen for the record, George Butterworth, was a casualty of the First World War: in September 1915 he want to the trenches and was killed, aged 31, in the Battle of the Somme on 5th August 1916. The use of his composition, A Shropshire Lad, is touching in this instance. It gives the listener a more sensitive perspective of the loss in World War One, almost allowing the listener to see the faces those who passed away, most of whom were young ‘lads’ from various parts of the country.

• 1. 6 Songs From a Shropshire Lad - I. Loveliest of Trees
• 2. Black Stitchel
• 3. A Shropshire Lad, Ias 20 - Vi. On the Idle Hill of Summer
• 4. 6 Songs From a Shropshire Lad - Iii. Look Not Into My Eye
• 5. Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Wo Die Schoenen Trompeten Blasen
• 6. 3 Melodies, Op. 23 - I. Les Berceaux
• 7. Three Songs of War - Ii. He is There!
• 8. A Shropshire Lad, Ias 20 - Vii. White In the Moon
• 9. Severn Meadows
• 10. Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Revelge
• 11. Songs and Dances of Death - Iv. the Field-Marshall
• 12. In Flanders
• 13. A Shropshire Lad, Ias 20 - Viii. Think No More, Lad
• 14. Romances and Ballads, Vol. Ii, Op. 49 - I. Die Beiden Grenad
• 15. Morike-Lieder - V. Der Tambour
• 16. 5 Lieder, Op. 40 - Iii. Der Soldat
• 17. Before and After Summer, Op. 16 - V. Channel Firing
• 18. A Shropshire Lad, Ias 20 - Ix. Into My Heart an Air That
• 19. 6 Songs From a Shropshire Lad - Ii. When I Was One and Twent
• 20. 6 Songs From a Shropshire Lad - V. the Lads In Their Hundred
• 21. 6 Songs From a Shropshire Lad - Vi. is My Team Ploughing
• 22. La Courte Paille, Fp. 178 - Vii. Lune D'avril
• 23. We'll To the Woods No More - Ii. In Boyhood