Ina Boyle: Songs
Paula Murrihy (mezzo), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Ben McAteer (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
Throughout, Robin Tritschler’s ardent, sometimes piercing tenor gets a good airing, while Paula Murrihy and Ben McAteer ensure tonal variety. And whether Boyle’s piano accompaniments are florid...
Ina Boyle: Songs
Paula Murrihy (mezzo), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Ben McAteer (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
Throughout, Robin Tritschler’s ardent, sometimes piercing tenor gets a good airing, while Paula Murrihy and Ben McAteer ensure tonal variety. And whether Boyle’s piano accompaniments are florid...
About
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?
Contents and tracklist
- Iain Burnside, Ben McAteer
- Iain Burnside, Paula Murrihy
- Iain Burnside, Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben McAteer
- Iain Burnside, Paula Murrihy
- Iain Burnside, Paula Murrihy, Ben McAteer
- Iain Burnside, Ben McAteer
- Iain Burnside, Paula Murrihy
- Iain Burnside, Ben McAteer
Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceAugust 2021
December 2021
Throughout, Robin Tritschler’s ardent, sometimes piercing tenor gets a good airing, while Paula Murrihy and Ben McAteer ensure tonal variety. And whether Boyle’s piano accompaniments are florid or interestingly bare-boned, Iain Burnside is always on hand with sensitive support.
November 2021
Performances throughout are exemplary, Paula Murrihy’s enchanting delivery of ‘Sleep Song’ (in Patrick Henry Pearse’s translation from the original Irish) being especially delectable...Altogether a most rewarding voyage of discovery.
August 2021
the Irish composer emerges as a hugely versatile voice and a natural melodist, characterising de la Mare’s ‘Mad Prince’ and E.L. Twiss’s itinerant fiddler with equal aplomb. The real stand-outs, though, are the two lullabies (‘Sleep Song’ and ‘A Mountain Woman Asks for Quiet That Her Child May Sleep’) and the dialogue ‘Have You Heard News of My Boy Jack?’, sung with moving eloquence by Murrihy and McAteer.
