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A Purse of Gold, Irish Songs
Herbert Hughes

Ailish Tynan / Iain Burnside

A Purse of Gold, Irish Songs

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212010624
Catnr: SIGCD 106
Release date: 01 October 2007
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212010624
Catalogue number
SIGCD 106
Release date
01 October 2007
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About the album

Despite the tradition of passing folk songs from generation to the next, aurally, the Irish folk song had lost its importance somewhat in 19th century Ireland, but by the turn of the twentieth-century the revival of Ireland’s native music was coming to a head.

Belfast-born Herbert Hughes set about collecting and distributing Irish airs. From there he began arranging the melodies for voice and piano, but at a lecture in Dublin pointed out the relationship between the original song, as sung by ‘the peasant, giving voice to an ancient tradition’ and the same song as put into print with a piano accompaniment. This original album brings together both the old and the new, transforming the traditional folk song into an ‘art-song.’ The 25 folk songs tell of stories both happy and sad and make this record as much a literary landscape, as a musical one with words by Thomas Moore & James Joyce. Beautifully performed by Ailish Tynan & Iain Burnside.

Artist(s)

Iain Burnside (soprano)

Iain Burnside is a pianist who has appeared in recital with many of the world’s leading singers. He is also an insightful programmer with an instinct for the telling juxtaposition. His recordings straddle an exuberantly eclectic repertoire ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to the cutting edge. Burnside’s passion for English Song is reflected in acclaimed albums of Britten, Finzi, Ireland, Butterworth and Vaughan Williams, many with baritone Roderick Williams. Away from the piano Burnside is active as a writer and broadcaster. For Guildhall School of Music & Drama Burnside has devised a number of singular theatre pieces. A Soldier and a Maker, based on the life of Ivor Gurney, was performed at the Barbican Centre and the Cheltenham Festival, and later...
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Iain Burnside is a pianist who has appeared in recital with many of the world’s leading singers. He is also an insightful programmer with an instinct for the telling juxtaposition. His recordings straddle an exuberantly eclectic repertoire ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to the cutting edge. Burnside’s passion for English Song is reflected in acclaimed albums of Britten, Finzi, Ireland, Butterworth and Vaughan Williams, many with baritone Roderick Williams.
Away from the piano Burnside is active as a writer and broadcaster. For Guildhall School of Music & Drama Burnside has devised a number of singular theatre pieces. A Soldier and a Maker, based on the life of Ivor Gurney, was performed at the Barbican Centre and the Cheltenham Festival, and later broadcast by BBC R3 on Armistice Day. Iain Burnside is Artistic Director of the Ludlow English Song Weekend and Artistic Consultant to Grange Park Opera.

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Ailish Tynan (piano)

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01.
Reynardine
01:50
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
02.
The Fanaid Grove
03:06
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
03.
The Leprehaun
01:40
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
04.
When through life unblest we rove
03:09
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
05.
Oh, breathe not his name
01:56
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
06.
I'm a decent good Irish body
01:06
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
07.
She weeps over Rahoon
03:25
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
08.
The Magpie's nest
00:46
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
09.
Johnny Doyle
05:29
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
10.
Cruckhaun Finn
05:23
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
11.
Johnny I hardly knew ye
02:26
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
12.
The Gartan Mother's Lullaby
02:37
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
13.
You couldn't stop a lover
00:43
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
14.
I will walk with my love
01:47
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
15.
She moved thro the fair
03:00
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
16.
The Bard of Armagh
03:56
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
17.
The old turf fire
01:23
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
18.
O father, father build me a boat
05:03
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
19.
B for Barney
00:35
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
20.
She lived beside the Anner
03:55
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
21.
The stuttering lovers
01:36
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
22.
I know where I'm goin'
02:01
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
23.
A young maid stood in her father's garden
03:35
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
24.
The Spanish Lady
02:19
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
25.
Tigaree torum orum
03:01
(Herbert Hughes) Iain Burnside, Ailish Tynan
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