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CDA67261/2 - Ireland: Songs
CDA67261/2
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Recording details: September 1998
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Arthur Johnson
Engineered by Mike Clements & Mike Hatch
Release date: June 1999
Total duration: 148 minutes 42 seconds

'Three excellent young British singers share the treasures recorded here under the sage aegis of Graham Johnson. Lisa Milne's bright, keen soprano is lovely, John Mark Ainsley is a model of style and verbal clarity and young Christopher Maltman continues to show the promise that won him the Cardiff Lieder Prize in 1997' (The Sunday Times)

'A welcome, long overdue event. Excellent introduction to unduly neglected repertoire' (Classic CD)

'Perhaps these discs will at last bring the best of his songs back into live recital' (BBC Music Magazine)

'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)

John Ireland (1879-1962)
Songs
Lisa Milne (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
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Songs Sacred and Profane  [12'23]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
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The advent  [3'06]
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Hymn for a child  [2'02]
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My fair  [3'05]
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The salley gardens  [1'49]
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The soldier's return  [0'59]
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The scapegoat  [1'22]
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Santa Chiara 'Palm Sunday: Naples'  [2'27]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Two Songs 1926  [6'22]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Tryst 'In fountain court'  [3'33]
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Three Songs  [6'52]
Lisa Milne (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
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The adoration  [2'35]
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The rat  [1'48]
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Rest  [2'29]
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Tutto è sciolto  [1'52]
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Spring sorrow  [1'45]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Two Songs 1920  [4'44]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
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The trellis  [2'52]
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My true love hath my heart  [1'52]
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When I am old  [2'41]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Spleen  [3'13]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Love is a sickness full of woes  [1'54]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
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If there were dreams to sell  [2'16]
Lisa Milne (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
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If we must part  [1'51]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Five Songs to poems by Thomas Hardy  [10'26]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Beckon to me to come  [2'12]
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In my sage moments  [2'52]
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It was what you bore with you, woman  [1'17]
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The tragedy of that moment  [1'38]
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Dear, think not that they will forget you 'Her temple'  [2'27]
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Three Songs to poems by Thomas Hardy  [7'04]
Lisa Milne (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
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Summer schemes  [2'14]
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Her song  [2'39]
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Weathers  [2'11]
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I have twelve oxen  [1'47]
Lisa Milne (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Great things  [2'08]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Earth's call 'A sylvan rhapsody'  [5'11]
Lisa Milne (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Hope the hornblower  [2'04]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Songs of a wayfarer  [11'36]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Memory  [1'58]
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When daffodils begin to peer  [2'06]
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English May  [2'47]
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I was not sorrowful 'Spleen'  [3'17]
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I will walk on the earth  [1'28]
The land of lost content
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Ladslove  [2'19]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
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The heart's desire  The boys are up the woods with day  [2'33] English
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
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When I am dead, my dearest  [1'54]
Lisa Milne (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
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What art thou thinking of?  [3'26]
Lisa Milne (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Two Songs 1926  [6'22]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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During music  [2'49]
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Mother and child  [9'52]
Lisa Milne (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Newborn  [1'22]
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The only child  [1'44]
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Hope  [0'57]
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Skylark and nightingale  [0'49]
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The blind boy  [1'17]
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Baby  [1'12]
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Death-parting  [1'15]
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The garland  [1'16]
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The vagabond  [1'47]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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The bells of San Marie  [2'55]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Sea fever  I must go down to the seas again  [2'15]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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The journey  [1'21]
Lisa Milne (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Bed in summer  [1'13]
Lisa Milne (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Five XVIth-century poems  [9'18]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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A thanksgiving  [1'30]
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All in a garden green  [1'47]
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An aside  [1'21]
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A report song  [1'52]
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The sweet season  [2'48]
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The sacred flame  [1'49]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Remember  [1'30]
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Three Songs 1926  [7'11]
Lisa Milne (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
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Love and friendship  [2'09]
Graham Johnson (piano)
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Friendship in misfortune  [1'38]
Graham Johnson (piano)
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The one hope  [3'24]
Graham Johnson (piano)
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We'll to the woods no more  [7'52]
Lisa Milne (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
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We'll to the woods no more  [2'28]
Graham Johnson (piano)
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In boyhood  [1'41]
Graham Johnson (piano)
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Spring will not wait  [3'43]
Graham Johnson (piano)
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When the lights go rolling round the sky  [2'51]
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Three marvellous young singers come together with Graham Johnson to present this 2-CD set of virtually all of the songs of this reticent but much loved English composer. Before his death in 1962, John Ireland wrote many more songs than the famous 'Sea Fever' (which is sung here by Cardiff prize-winner Christopher Maltman). No less than 69 of them are here, several recorded for the first time. The poets include Shakespeare, the Rossettis, Thomas Hardy, A E Housman, John Masefield and Sir Henry Newbolt. Full texts are included in the booklet.


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