Ireland - Soliloquy
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As in previous volumes, his impeccable phrasing, sensitivity to chord-colouring, and expressive identification with the music make this new disc probably the version of these pieces to go for...Bebbington... —
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[A Downland Suite is] felicitously served on this latest anthology from Warwickshire’s Orchestra of the Swan under David Curtis…I love the thrusting vigour of Curtis’s Prelude…and his shapely... —
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Comparative listening to the meaty Sonata that Ireland wrote between 1918 and 1920 (the one work common to all three releases) finds both Rowlands and Bebbington allowing themselves rather greater... —
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Ireland - Orchestral Songs and Miniatures
Roderick Williams (baritone), Roderick Williams (recitation), Charles Mutter (solo violin), Roderick Williams (baritone a capella)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, John Wilson, Gavin Sutherland, Paul Murphy, Martin Yates
Roderick Williams declaims his own orcehstration of Annabel Lee rather well, and enjoys two robust sea songs —
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Captured in perfectly acceptable mono sound, Rowland's memorably intimate performances betoken a very special empathy for this repertoire. —
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Eric Parkin's… is completely inside Ireland's idiom, well understanding the darker emotional complexities and yearnings that may underlie a seemingly casual phrase or carefree melodic line. —
