Rudolf Schwarz included Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad in his LSSO concert at the De Montfort Hall in 1964. Another delightful Butterworth miniature for orchestra, The Banks of Green Willow, was played as an encore by Eric Pinkett and the orchestra in the same concert hall in 1968 and it was widely performed by the 1969 LSSO during the Berlin tour. It also appeared regularly in many LSSO concerts in subsequent years. The recording featured below was recorded by the BBC in February 1969 for an edition of Youth Orchestras of the World.

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