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Evening Songs: Delius and Ireland Songs Arranged for Cello and Piano Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) / Jiaxin Cheng (cello) / John Lenehan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "What emerges - as if we needed reminding - is the great gift of each man for melody: divorced from their texts, they work almost better in this form!" International Record Review |
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Songs (Incls 'Five Poems by Thomas Hardy') Roderick Williams (Baritone) / Iain Burnside (Piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 18 / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "Roderick Williams is such a good singer he can make the voice part sound vocal and natural in a way not many have succeeded in doing. …the pianist, Iain Burnside, plays with a sureness of touch to match the highly skilled naturalness of Williams's... |
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Piano Works, Vol. 1 (Incls London Pieces) John Lenehan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jul/2007 ] "John Lenehan is a very accomplished performer: not only is his technical address impeccable, but he also possesses a strikingly wide dynamic range and sophisticated variety of tone colour......Lenehan's supremely affectionate and wonderfully... |
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Piano Works, Vol. 2 (Incls Sonatina) John Lenehan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jul/2007 ] "John Lenehan, a strong and sympathetic interpreter, time and again makes you wonder at works aptly described as 'some of the most appealing English piano music written this century, too long neglected...Lenehan's playing is of a special integrity... |
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Piano Works, Vol. 3 (Incls Green Ways) John Lenehan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2009 ] "Lenehan effortlessly maintains the favourable impression left by the first two instalments in this series. What's more, he has been accorded crystal-clear yet nicely atmospheric engineering." (Gramophone) |
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The Piano Concerto / Indian Summer / A Sea Idyll / etc John Lenehan (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] "John Ireland's Piano Concerto of 1930 receives a thoroughly sympathetic, lucid performance, as does the ominously darker Legend of three years later...A delightful disc." (Daily Telegraph) |
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Ireland: Sextet / Clarinet Trio / Fantasy-Sonata / The Holy Boy Sophia Rahman (piano) / Alice Neary (Cello) / Robert Plane (Clarinet) / Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] A composition pupil of Stanford and recognised as an outstanding talent by Parry, John Ireland was inspired as a student by the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Elgar, and later by Debussy, Ravel and the early Stravinsky. This recording features the... |