Browse: Ireland - We'll To The Woods No More

[Williams] has a mellow, refined tone, distinctively poetic delivery, and is keenly sensitive to the words. And with Allan’s lively support, he can unleash sufficient vigour in the emotional... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Comparative listening to the meaty Sonata that Ireland wrote between 1918 and 1920 (the one work common to all three releases) finds both Rowlands and Bebbington allowing themselves rather greater... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Ireland devotees should savour the new material in this crazy quilt of the poignant and frivolous, the strong and the weak. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

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 — Hi-Fi News More…