A Shropshire Lad (rhapsody)

George Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad: Rhapsody for Orchestra, first performed in 1913, is a work in the English pastoral style based on two of Butterworth's own settings of poems by A. E. Housman. It is a frequently performed work, for many Butterworth's greatest, and has come to be seen as an elegy before the fact for the young men who, like the composer himself, died in the First World War.

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