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A sense of the mannered or precious can debase these songs; Keenlyside's sweeping, robust lyricism is deceptively effortless and exactly right...Dr Johnson once said that every man thinks worse... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Solo Vocal
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There's a touch of genius about Bryn Terfel.
To those who've known most of these songs since childhood and heard them well performed innumerable times, it will come not quite as a revelation... —Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. The English Song Series Volume 18 - Ireland
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
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.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, Choral & Song Choice
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Leo – Music By The Great Leos
Linda Kent (organ), Roseanne Hunt (cello), Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Tessa Birnie (piano), Marilyn Richardson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Sharolyn Kimmorley (piano), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (baritone), Stewart Smith (harpsichord), Paul Wright (violin), Stephanie McCallum...
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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. —
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Special offer. The Essential Roderick Williams
Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano), Martin Ford, Attacca Quartet, Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, David Lloyd-Jones
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The Songs of John Ireland
Lisa Milne (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Ireland was a songsmith to rival the finest this country has produced, and Hyperion's generous anthology will hopefully encourage others to explore this rewarding and rapt repertoire —
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John Ireland - The Songs
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), John Mitchinson (tenor), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto) & Alan Rowlands (piano)
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Special offer. British Music Collection - John Ireland, Edmund Rubbra, Roger Quilter
Bryn Terfel, Kathleen Ferrier, Benjamin Luxon, Elly Ameling, Jennifer Vyvyan
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, David Hill, Elgar Howarth
