Ireland: Sonatina |
This page lists all recordings of Sonatina, by John Ireland (1879-1962) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | 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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“John Lenehan, a strong and sympathetic interpreter, time and again makes you wonder at works aptly described as ‘some of the most appealing English piano music written this century, too long neglected’
Lenehan’s playing is of a special integrity and musicianship.”
- Bryce Morrison, Gramophone Magazine, October 1999 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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"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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