Lisa Milne, John Mark Ainsley, Christopher Maltman, Graham Johnson - The Songs of John Ireland (1999)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Songs Sacred & Profane: I. The Advent
02. Songs Sacred & Profane: II. Hymn for a Child
03. Songs Sacred & Profane: III. My Fair
04. Songs Sacred & Profane: IV. The Salley Gardens
05. Songs Sacred & Profane: V. The Soldier's Return
06. Songs Sacred & Profane: VI. The Scapegoat
07. Santa Chiara "Palm Sunday. Naples"
08. 2 Songs 1926: No. 1, Tryst "In Fountain Court"
09. 3 Songs: No. 1, The Adoration
10. 3 Songs: No. 2, The Rat
11. 3 Songs: No. 3, Rest
12. Tutto è sciolto
13. Spring Sorrow
14. 2 Songs 1920: No. 1, The Trellis
15. 2 Songs 1920: No. 2, My True Love Hath My Heart
16. When I Am Old
17. Spleen
18. Love Is a Sickness Full of Woes
19. If There Were Dreams To Sell
20. If We Must Part
21. 5 Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy: No. 1, Beckon to Me to Come
22. 5 Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy: No. 2, In My Sage Moments
23. 5 Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy: No. 3, It Was What You Bore with You, Woman
24. 5 Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy: No. 4, The Tragedy of That Moment
25. 5 Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy: No. 5, Dear, Think Not That They Will Forget You "Her Temple"
26. 3 Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy: No. 1, Summer Schemes
27. 3 Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy: No. 2, Her Song
28. 3 Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy: No. 3, Weathers
29. I Have Twelve Oxen
30. Great Things
31. Earth's Call "A Sylvan Rhapsody"
32. Hope the Hornblower

CD2
01. Songs of a Wayfarer: I. Memory
02. Songs of a Wayfarer: II. When Daffodils Begin to Peer
03. Songs of a Wayfarer: III. English May
04. Songs of a Wayfarer: IV. I Was Not Sorrowful "Spleen"
05. Songs of a Wayfarer: V. I Will Walk on the Earth
06. The Land of Lost Content: II. Ladslove
07. The Heart's Desire
08. When I Am Dead, My Dearest
09. What Art Thou Thinking Of?
10. 2 Songs 1926: No. 2, During Music
11. Mother and Child: I. Newborn
12. Mother and Child: II. The Only Child
13. Mother and Child: III. Hope
14. Mother and Child: IV. Skylark and Nightingale
15. Mother and Child: V. The Blind Boy
16. Mother and Child: VI. Baby
17. Mother and Child: VII. Death-Parting
18. Mother and Child: VIII. The Garland
19. The Vagabond
20. The Bells of San Marie
21. Sea Fever
22. The Journey
23. Bed in Summer
24. 5 XVIth-Century Poems: No. 1, A Thanksgiving
25. 5 XVIth-Century Poems: No. 2, All in a Garden Green
26. 5 XVIth-Century Poems: No. 3, An Aside
27. 5 XVIth-Century Poems: No. 4, A Report Song
28. 5 XVIth-Century Poems: No. 5, The Sweet Season
29. The Sacred Flame
30. Remember
31. 3 Songs 1926: No. 1, Love and Friendship
32. 3 Songs 1926: No. 2, Friendship in Misfortune
33. 3 Songs 1926: No. 3, The One Hope
34. We'll to the Woods No More: I. We'll to the Woods No More
36. We'll to the Woods No More: III. Spring Will Not Wait
37. When the Lights Go Rolling Round the Sky

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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