Ireland - Spring Will Not Wait
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This Other Eden: A Landscape of English Poetry and Song
Kitty Whately (mezzo), Joseph Middleton (piano), with Kevin Whatley, Madelaine Newton, Magnus Johnston, Brian O'Kane
Navarra Quartet
Whately's choice is eclectic…[and] she sings them with attractive brightness and fervour. Her tone is not yet as distinctive as Janet Baker or Sarah Connolly, say, but there's a plangent shading... —
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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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Ireland devotees should savour the new material in this crazy quilt of the poignant and frivolous, the strong and the weak. —
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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: Violin Sonata No. 2, Fantasy Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Thea King, Alan Rowlands, Tessa Robbins
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Captured in perfectly acceptable mono sound, Rowland's memorably intimate performances betoken a very special empathy for this repertoire. —
