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The Complete John Ireland Songbook, Vol. 2
Mark Stone (baritone), Sholto Kynoch (piano)
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
For all lovers and collectors of the art of English song, this has to be a recommendation.
The Complete John Ireland Songbook, Vol. 2
Mark Stone (baritone), Sholto Kynoch (piano)
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
For all lovers and collectors of the art of English song, this has to be a recommendation.
About
This is the second CD in a four-disc series that will comprise the first complete recording of the songs of John Ireland (1879-1962) for voice and piano, performed by baritone Mark Stone and pianist Sholto Kynoch. Featuring his settings of William Blake, James Vila Blake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ernest Dowson and Arthur Symons, it includes his well-known cycles Songs of a Wayfarer and ""Marigold as well as some of his less often performed unison songs. The breadth of style in both music and text across this programme is extraordinary, showing a composer whose talents allowed him to produce both beautiful songs of childlike simplicity and compositions of incredible harmonic complexity.
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceAugust 2020
March/April 2021
For all lovers and collectors of the art of English song, this has to be a recommendation.
August 2020
This long-awaited second instalment of Stone and Kynoch’s Ireland series (Volume One was released in 2013) has proved a most congenial companion for long country rambles, from the lusty ardour of ‘When lights go rolling’ to the melancholy, twilit ‘Friendship in Misfortune’. Stone’s robust baritone never sounds overly manicured (there’s the odd raw spot here and there, but it scarcely matters), and Kynoch conjures the oft-referenced birds and breezes from the keyboard with airy fluency. Ear-worms aplenty, too.
23rd August 2020
Stone and Kynoch catch the essentially English nostalgia of the haunting, wistful songs with robust humour in the folksy, rollicking numbers.
