Release Date: 01 June 1999
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Fat Double (a 2.5cm thick jewel case, fits several CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 034571172613
Genres: Classical  Vocal  
Composer/Series: Lieder
Release Date: 01 June 1999
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Fat Double (a 2.5cm thick jewel case, fits several CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 034571172613
Genres: Classical  Vocal  
Composer/Series: Lieder
Description
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.
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Marianne Beate Kielland, Nils Anders Mortensen
Adnieszka Rehlis, Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk, Magdalena Blum
Milan Siljanov; Nino Chokhnelidze
Thomas Elwin and Lana Bode
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Nicky Spence; Julius Drake
Kartal Karagedik
Billie Poole