"Putting together a song recital to mark today's Armistice centenary is no easy task - few art songs came directly from the horrors of the trenches - but the work of two composers killed in the conflict, one English, one German, finds its way on to a moving new release from tenor Ian Bostridge ... Butterworth's settings of AE Housman's A Shropshire Lad are well known and welcome here, but not so familiar is Rudi Stephan's startlingly sensuous Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied, a cycle of erotic love songs far more radical than Butterworth's nostalgic pastoralism".