The Complete John Ireland Songbook Volume 1
Mark Stone (baritone), Sholto Kynoch (piano)
Ireland devotees should savour the new material in this crazy quilt of the poignant and frivolous, the strong and the weak.
The Complete John Ireland Songbook Volume 1
Mark Stone (baritone), Sholto Kynoch (piano)
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Ireland devotees should savour the new material in this crazy quilt of the poignant and frivolous, the strong and the weak.
About
The first in a four-disc series that will comprise the first-ever complete recording of the songs of John Ireland. Includes his evocative war poetry settings of Housman, Brooke, Cooper and Masefield and five world-première recordings of the popular ballads Ireland composed under the pseudonym of Turlay Royce.
Booklet includes full texts and detailed notes.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
January 2014
Ireland devotees should savour the new material in this crazy quilt of the poignant and frivolous, the strong and the weak.
6th July 2013
The CD includes premiere recordings of five attractive pre-1914 ballads that Ireland published under a pseudonym. Despite some awkwardness at the top, Stone’s baritone proves a lively and expressive guide, ably partnered by Kynoch.
March 2014
Stone uses all his gifts in this splendid collection of John Ireland's songs to bring out their varied range of expression...Altogether a disc to leave one freshly enthusiastic about the writing of John Ireland
11th July 2013
They illustrate both the easy charm of Ireland's music and its lack of real musical muscle...Stone does all he can to disguise such lapses; his performances with pianist Sholto Kynoch are models of discretion, with just occasional lapses of intonation to disturb their poise.
