The John Ireland companion /
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 remarka...
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
The Boydell Press,
2011.
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Table of 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
- 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
- Appendix 1 : John Ireland's addresses
- Appendix 2 : A note on John Ireland's handwriting
- Catalogue of John Ireland's works
- John Ireland discography / Stephen Lloyd.
- 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).