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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Ireland - Piano Works Volume 3
John Ireland’s piano music, some of the most appealing British piano music of the twentieth century, reflects the composer’s many interests: his love of literature, his interest in paganism and Celtic mysticism, as well as the bitter-sweet regret of the passing of love. irelanThis recording includes Ireland’s Piano Sonata, whose third movement is associated with Chanctonbury Ring on the Sussex South Downs, and the four Preludes, the third of which, The Holy Boy, written on Christmas Day 1913, is one of Ireland’s most popular and touching melodies. | 
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| |  | Ireland - Piano Music Volume 1
This is Vol. 1 of a planned cycle of all the piano music by John Ireland. 1879 was an auspicious
year for English music. It saw the births of Frank Bridge and Cyril Scott as well as John Ireland.
Having scored huge critical acclaim and public acclamation for his recent recordings of music by
Bax, Lambert and Elgar, pianist Mark Bebbington is nothing less than spectacular in these
stunning piano pieces. A very welcome release from Somm. Not to be missed! “Bebbington’s approach fulfils with prescient fluidity the composer’s textural ambitions, yet resists tossing off
the flourishes with undue slickness or abandoning the chaste lyrical imperative that, as with all Ireland’s
music, binds together the considerable pianistic accoutrements…. The continuing wave of enthusiasm for John
Ireland’s music is certainly to be warmly embraced and I look forward with eagerness to Mark Bebbington’s
second instalment.” International Record Review, June 2008 |
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| |  | The English Song Series Volume 18 - Ireland
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano) “Among the 26 Ireland songs on this disc are two cycles devoted to Thomas Hardy, dating from 1925 and 1926. Settings of Hardy's poems were of course at the heart of Gerald Finzi's output of songs, and there is nothing in these Ireland cycles that approaches the fine-honed responses and harmonic imagination of those, sensitively though Williams and Burnside present them. In fact it's hard to pin down a distinctive creative personality in any of these songs, and ironically it's the cycle We'll to the Woods No More from 1927 that seems the most individual, with texts from that favourite source for early 20th-century English composers, AE Housman, that has the most character.” The Guardian, 20th June 2008 *** “Roderick Williams, with his sympathetic, warmly rounded baritone, and Iain Burnside are eloquent advocates of all these songs. Even they, though, cannot dispel a sense of sameishness, with pastoral-tinged melancholy too rarely relieved by something more impassioned or invigorating.” The Telegraph, 14th June 2008 “Another irresistible volume in The English Song Series: a compilation of John Ireland which reveals the sheer breadth of emotional experience and variegated piano writing within his songs. Every word is tasted, pungently flavoured and given rigorous new life, with Iain Burnside's piano playing sentient to every second of Williams's singing.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 ***** “Roderick Williams is such a good singer he can make the voice part sound vocal and natural in a way not many have succeeded in doing. …the pianist, Iain Burnside, plays with a sureness of touch to match the highly skilled naturalness of Williams's singing.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008  BBC Music Magazine
Choral & Song Choice - July 2008 |
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| |  | Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ
Jane Parker-Smith (Great Seifert Organ of St. Marien Basilika Kevelaer) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | John Ireland - The Piano Music
"How can the critics begin to understand my music if they have never read Machen?" This was a question heard to fall on more than one occasion from John Ireland’s lips. Ireland came of a literary family, and literature and literary people played a natural part in the formation of his personality. Most influential of all were the works of Arthur Machen the Welsh writer, who was to Ireland almost what Yeats was to Bax. Ireland had dreamt in fire - after his first encounter with Machen it was only a matter of time before he worked in fire also. In the wake of The House of Souls and The Hill of Dreams a smouldering coal flared gloriously into flame. For Machen loved all memoried things and places, things with a past behind them - and the more remote the past the greater he felt able to partake of them. He hailed from a forgotten country in the West, a land of dark and ancient woods and streams and deep sunken lanes, the ancient Welsh kingdom of Gwent … | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Britten and Ireland Piano Concertos
David Strong (piano) Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Bostock rec. 7-10 June 2006, Symfonien, Aalborg, Denmark | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | John Ireland - The Songs
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), John Mitchinson (tenor), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto) & Alan Rowlands (piano) 3 CDs for price of 2 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Best of BritishA 2-CD Set of Stirring Music by the Best of British Composers
Various artists including Maria Kliegel, Maggini Quartet, Oxford Camerata conducted by Jeremy Summerly, Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by David Lloyd-Jones, Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge conducted by Christopher Robinson, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Steuart Bedford | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | John Ireland - Sextet, Trios & Sonatas
Ireland: | Phantasie Trio in A minor (In one Movement) Yfrah Neaman (violin), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) & Eric Parkin (piano) Trio No. 2 in E for violin, cello & piano Yfrah Neaman (violin), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) & Eric Parkin (piano) Trio No. 3 in E Yfrah Neaman (violin), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) & Eric Parkin (piano) Sextet for Clarinet, Horn and String Quartet Emanuel Hurwitz, Ivor MacMahon (violins), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Terence Weil (cello), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Neill Sanders (horn), André Navarra (cello) & Eric Parkin (piano) Sonata in G minor for cello & piano Emanuel Hurwitz, Ivor MacMahon (violins), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Terence Weil (cello), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Neill Sanders (horn), André Navarra (cello) & Eric Parkin (piano) Fantasy Sonata (In one Movement) Emanuel Hurwitz, Ivor MacMahon (violins), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Terence Weil (cello), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Neill Sanders (horn), André Navarra (cello) & Eric Parkin (piano) Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor Yfrah Neaman (violin) & Eric Parkin (piano) Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor Yfrah Neaman (violin) & Eric Parkin (piano) |
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