An Irish Songbook
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An Irish Songbook
Ailish Tynan (soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano)
[ Signum Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 October 2011
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"The disc is full of interest. There are lovely, unknown tunes, seductively sung and hauntingly harmonised. It has pathos and wild joy in equal measure. An excellent recital."
(Classic FM)
"Soprano Tynan has a fresh, light, but powerful voice, which never distorts and uses vibrato sparingly. She relates symbiotically to Burnside...The disc is full of interest. There are lovely, unknown tunes, seductively sung and hauntingly harmonised. It has pathos and wild joy in equal measure. An excellent recital."
(Classic FM)
"Typically, they all have distinctive accompaniments, some of them little related to the melodies at all...Predictably, Burnside is always a most sensitive accompanist, not least in some of Britten's tricky piano-writing. A most distinctive disc, well recorded and well worth investigating."
(Gramophone)
Iain Burnside and Ailish Tynan return to Signum with their second disc of Irish Songs and arrangements: this time from a range of different 20th Century composers.
Although all of the sung texts stem from Ireland's rich heritage of literature (including poems from W.B. Yeats, Thomas Moore and James Joyce), the composers featured have a more transatlantic feel, with works by John Cage and Samuel Barber programmed alongside others by Benjamin Britten and Herbert Hughes. This disc continues Burnside's series of recital discs with Signum - in particular his 2007 disc with Ailish Tynan of Irish songs by Herbert Hughes.
Tracks:
Barber:
Solitary Hotel
The Desire for Hermitage
St. Ita's Vision (No. 3 from Hermit Songs)
Bax:
To Eire (James H Cousins)
Bridge:
Lean out of the Window (Goldenhair)
Britten:
The Last Rose of Summer
Avenging and Bright
The Minstrel Boy
Sail on
At the mid hour of night
Down by the Salley Gardens
Cage:
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Dunhill:
The Cloths of Heaven, Op. 30/3
Harty:
The Stranger's Grave
Howells:
Flood
Ireland:
Tutto e sciolto
Orr, C W:
Bahnhofstrasse
Pendleton:
Bid Adieu
traditional:
Marry Me Now (arranged Hughes)
Oh Men from the Fields (arranged Hughes)
The Roving Dingle Boy (arranged Moeran)
The Tinker's Daughter (arranged Moeran)
The Lost Lover (arranged Moeran)
