The John Ireland companion / edited by Lewis Foreman ; with a foreword by Julian Lloyd Webber.
| Other author | Foreman, Lewis, editor. |
| Format | Audio (CD) |
| Publication Info | Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, 2011. |
| Description | xxxiv, 529 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Subjects |
| Contents | John Ireland: a life in music / Colin Scott-Sutherland ; John Ireland: a personal discovery / Bruce Phillips ; Meeting John Ireland: an interview / Alan Rowlands ; John Ireland's personal world / Fiona Richards ; Interview with John Ireland / Murray Schafer ; Interviews with friends and contemporaries of John Ireland: Felix Aprahamian, Alan Bush, Charles Markes, Angus Morrison and Rev. Kenneth Thompson / Lewis Foreman ; John Ireland and the BBC / Lewis Foreman ; Sea fever: John Ireland and Deal / Julie Deller ; Remembering John Ireland and his world / Freda Swain ; Arthur Machen and John Ireland / Colin Scott-Sutherland ; Helen Perkin: pianist, composer and muse of John Ireland / Fiona Richards ; John Ireland and Charles Markes: a creative relationship / George Dannatt ; The John Ireland Charitable Trust / Bruce Phillips -- John Ireland: some musical fingerprints / Alan Rowlands ; John Ireland and the piano / Eric Parkin ; John Ireland in the concert hall: orchestral and choral-orchestral music / Lewis Foreman ; The Happy Highways: John Ireland's chamber music / Bruce Philips ; The church music of John Ireland / Jeremy Dibble ; The organ music / Stephen Le Prevost ; The songs of John Ireland / Charles Markes ; Songs of innocence: the part-songs of John Ireland / Philip Lancaster ; John Ireland and poetry: a singer's experience / Roderick Williams ; John Ireland on record: the composer and the growth of the gramophone / Robert Matthew-Walker -- John Ireland: a personal impression / Geoffrey Bush ; Ireland's pupils on their teacher: Richard Arnell, Alan Bush, Benjamin Britten, E.J. Moeran & Humphrey Searle -- |
| Contents | John Ireland: two reminiscences / Jocelyn Brooke ; Appreciation and biographical sketch / Norah Kirby ; The first performance of the Piano Sonata / Frederic Lamond & Marion M. Scott ; Discovering John Ireland / Kenneth A. Wright ; John Ireland / E.J. Morean ; John Ireland the man / C.B. Rees ; Modern British composers: John Ireland / Edwin Evans -- John Ireland's writings on music -- Personal anecdotes ; Beethoven: a speech for the opposition ; Alan Bush: the student ; My introduction to Beethoven ; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford ; Elgar ; Listen to the bands! ; Sir Walter Alcock ; Ravel at a party ; Challenges ; Memorable first nights ; Albert Sammons: a tribute ; A tribute to Vaughan Williams ; Dr. Ireland reviews his long career ; John Ireland's programmer notes for his own music. |
| Contents | Audio CD contents: The voice of John Ireland. Recollections of Stanford ; My introduction to Beethoven -- Concertino pastoral: Eclogue / Boyd Neel Orchestra, Boyd Need, conductor -- John Ireland as pianist in his own music from broadcasts. The towing path ; Chelsea Reach (London pieces, no. 2) -- John Ireland as pianist in his own music from piano rolls. Amberley wild brooks ; Ragamuffin -- Sonatina / played by Helen Perkin -- Songs by John Ireland recorded in his lifetime on 78s. Hope the hornblower / Thomas Case, voice; with orchestra ; The bells of San Marie / Peter Dawson, voice; with piano quintet ; When lights go rolling round the sky / Peter Dawson, voice; Madam Amani, piano ; Sea fever / Fraser Gange, voice ; Sea fever / Betty Chester, voice; Melville Gideon, piano ; The soldier / Roy Henderson, voice; Ivor Newton, piano. |
| Abstract | John Ireland (1879-1962) was one of the most distinctive and distinguished of a generation of exceptional British composers that included Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Frank Bridge and Arnold Bax. They emerged in the decade before the First World War and, in the inter-war years, produced a remarkable body of music. In Ireland's case his was not only the most popular British Piano Concerto of its time, but he also composed a splendid repertoire of songs, piano music, chamber music and orchestral and choral scores. This richly illustrated Companion will be essential for all admirers of the composer. Not only for the performer - pianist, singer, conductor - but for the wider musical public, record collectors and music historians, academics and anyone interested in British music of the earlier twentieth century. The author has drawn on his extensive research into Ireland's life and letters over many years, and, in association with the John Ireland Charitable Trust, has not only commissioned a wide range of chapters from leading performers and writers of today, but has brought together in one convenient format Ireland's own writings on music, the memories of his friends and students (including Britten, Moeran and Arnell) and a selection of important earlier articles. The Companion also includes a complete list of works and the most comprehensive discography of Ireland ever compiled. The accompanying CD contains historical recordings featuring the voice of John Ireland, with two of his broadcast talks, as well as otherwise unobtainable performances of Ireland's music from the composer himself and from other well-known performers of the past. |
| Local note | JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER: MusicLib CD-11837. |
| General note | Accompanying compact disc (John Ireland Trust: CDJI0001) contains radio talks by Ireland, and performances of his works by himself and others. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references, discography, and indexes. |
| ISBN | 9781843836865 |
| ISBN | 1843836866 |
| Publisher number | CDJI0001 John Ireland Trust |