Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer & Ian Burnside – Ina Boyle: Songs (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit/96kHz | Time – 01:17:07 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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In lifelong seclusion in rural County Wicklow, Ina Boyle created a legacy of song – tender, often melancholy, illuminated by an exquisite sense for harmony. ‘I think it is most courageous of you to go on with such little recognition,’ wrote Vaughan Williams to his pupil. ‘The only thing to say is that it does come finally.’
Amid the 2020 pandemic, Iain Burnside gathered three superb Irish singers at London’s Wigmore Hall. Recorded in less than five hours, the resulting 80 minutes of music unveil a composer who is one of Ireland’s ‘invisible heroines’.
Half a century after Boyle’s death, is Vaughan Williams’s prediction at last coming true?
Boyle, born near Enniskerry in County Wicklow in 1889, studied under Vaughan Williams and composed a range of choral, chamber and orchestral music, plus songs, ballet scores and an opera. She received an honourable mention for her work at the 1948 London Olympics, when the competition still had a music award. A documentary on her work was broadcast on RT’E Lyric FM in 2010 (listen below) and her music featured at the Composing the Island festival in 2018. The same year an album of her orchestral music was released on the Dutton label and a biography by Ita Beausang and S’eamas de Barra was published by Cork University Press. Boyle died in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, in 1967.
The songs that will be included in the recording for Delphian date from 1905 to 1966 and include settings of texts by Eva Gore-Booth, George ‘AE’ Russell, Austin Clarke, Walt Whitman, Walter de la Mare, and P’adraig Pearse.
Tracklist:
1. Iain Burnside – Since thou, O Fondest and Truest (01:56)
2. Iain Burnside – The Joy of Earth (02:03)
3. Iain Burnside – Three Songs by Walter de la Mare: I. Song of the Mad Prince (02:10)
4. Iain Burnside – Three Songs by Walter de la Mare: II. The Pigs & the Charcoal Burner (02:00)
5. Iain Burnside – Three Songs by Walter de la Mare: III. Moon, Reeds, Rushes (01:48)
6. Iain Burnside – A Mountain Woman Asks for Quiet that her Child May Sleep (02:12)
7. Iain Burnside – Looking Back: I. Carrowdore (01:45)
8. Iain Burnside – Looking Back: II. All Souls’ Night (01:45)
9. Iain Burnside – Looking Back: III. O ghost, That Has Gone (00:43)
10. Iain Burnside – Looking Back: IV. The Mill-Water (01:41)
11. Iain Burnside – Himself and his Fiddle (02:43)
12. Iain Burnside – Have You Heard News of My Boy Jack? (03:03)
13. Iain Burnside – Roses (01:53)
14. Iain Burnside – A Soft Day, Thank God! (01:30)
15. Iain Burnside – Eternity (01:53)
16. Iain Burnside – Sleep Song (02:42)
17. Iain Burnside – All Souls’ Flower (A Chtistmas Carol) (03:14)
18. Iain Burnside – Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: I. Eternal Love (03:05)
19. Iain Burnside – Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: II. In the Desert (01:22)
20. Iain Burnside – Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: III. The Yoke (01:11)
21. Iain Burnside – Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: IV. Lord, in Love (01:56)
22. Iain Burnside – Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: V. At the Altar (01:53)
23. Iain Burnside – A Song of Shadows (02:31)
24. Iain Burnside – A Song of Enchantment (02:55)
25. Iain Burnside – The Bringer of Dreams (03:52)
26. Iain Burnside – Longing (02:17)
27. Iain Burnside – Dust (01:08)
28. Iain Burnside – The Stolen Child (03:34)
29. Iain Burnside – Blessing (01:46)
30. Iain Burnside – They Went Forth (02:34)
31. Iain Burnside – Two Christmas Songs: I. So Blyssid be the Tyme (04:56)
32. Iain Burnside – Two Christmas Songs: II. Tyrle, Tyrlow, Tyrle, Tyrlow (04:29)
33. Iain Burnside – The Last Invocation (02:37)
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