Eric Parkin - Ireland: The Piano Music (2007)
BAND/ARTIST: Eric Parkin
- Title: Ireland: The Piano Music
- Year Of Release: 2007
- Label: Lyrita
- Genre: Classical Piano
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 02:52:11
- Total Size: 640 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
CD1
01. Decorations: No. 1, The Island Spell
02. Decorations: No. 2, Moon-glade
03. Decorations: No. 3, The Scarlet Ceremonies
04. The Almond Tree
05. 4 Preludes: No. 1, The Undertone
06. 4 Preludes: No. 2, Obsession
07. 4 Preludes: No. 3, The Holy Boy
08. 4 Preludes: No. 4, Fire of Spring
09. Prelude in E-Flat Major
10. Rhapsody
11. The Towing Path
12. Merry Andrew
13. London Pieces: No. 1, Chelsea Reach
14. London Pieces: No. 2, Ragamuffin
15. London Pieces: No. 3, Soho Forenoons
CD2
01. Summer Evening
02. Piano Sonata: I. Allegro moderato
03. Piano Sonata: II. Non troppo lento
04. Piano Sonata: III. Con moto moderato
05. 2 Pieces (1921): No. 1, For Remembrance
06. 2 Pieces (1921): No. 2, Amberley Wild Brooks
07. The Darkened Valley
08. Equinox
09. On a Birthday Morning
10. Soliloquy
11. 2 Pieces (1925): No. 1, April
12. 2 Pieces (1925): No. 2, Bergomask
CD3
01. Piano Sonatina: I. Moderato
02. Piano Sonatina: II. Quasi lento
03. Piano Sonatina: III. Rondo. Ritmico, non troppo allegro
04. Ballade
05. 2 Pieces (1929): No. 1, February's Child
06. 2 Pieces (1929): No. 2, Aubade
07. Month's Mind
08. Greenways: No. 1, The Cherry Tree
09. Greenways: No. 2, Cypress
10. Greenways: No. 3, The Palm and May
11. Sarnia: No. 1, Le Catioroc
12. Sarnia: No. 2, in a May Morning
13. Sarnia: No. 3, Song of the Springtides
The piano music of English composer John Ireland is as richly imagined and fully realized a body of piano music as any written after Debussy. From the impressionism of the early works like Decorations through the neo-classical formalism of mature works like the Piano Sonata to the flirtation with atonality in late works like Sarnia -- An Island Sequence, Ireland's piano music stands as high in his output as his much better known orchestral works. In these three recordings from 1975, 1977, and 1978 by Eric Parkin, Ireland's piano music is given performances that consistently do the works full justice. Parkin can handle every extravagant technical demand made by the music, demands rivaling those made by Debussy or Scriabin. More importantly, Parkin is wholly sympathetic to Ireland's music, no matter what the style. He can clarify the sometimes gnarly writing with his supremely clean articulation and smooth the sometimes hard-edged sonorities with his deft use of the mute and sustain pedals. Though not for first-time Ireland listening - his orchestral Mai-Dun or The Forgotten Rite are more characteristic and more immediately appealing - anyone who already knows and loves Ireland's music need not delay. Lyrita's stereo sound is crisp, deep, and round.
CD1
01. Decorations: No. 1, The Island Spell
02. Decorations: No. 2, Moon-glade
03. Decorations: No. 3, The Scarlet Ceremonies
04. The Almond Tree
05. 4 Preludes: No. 1, The Undertone
06. 4 Preludes: No. 2, Obsession
07. 4 Preludes: No. 3, The Holy Boy
08. 4 Preludes: No. 4, Fire of Spring
09. Prelude in E-Flat Major
10. Rhapsody
11. The Towing Path
12. Merry Andrew
13. London Pieces: No. 1, Chelsea Reach
14. London Pieces: No. 2, Ragamuffin
15. London Pieces: No. 3, Soho Forenoons
CD2
01. Summer Evening
02. Piano Sonata: I. Allegro moderato
03. Piano Sonata: II. Non troppo lento
04. Piano Sonata: III. Con moto moderato
05. 2 Pieces (1921): No. 1, For Remembrance
06. 2 Pieces (1921): No. 2, Amberley Wild Brooks
07. The Darkened Valley
08. Equinox
09. On a Birthday Morning
10. Soliloquy
11. 2 Pieces (1925): No. 1, April
12. 2 Pieces (1925): No. 2, Bergomask
CD3
01. Piano Sonatina: I. Moderato
02. Piano Sonatina: II. Quasi lento
03. Piano Sonatina: III. Rondo. Ritmico, non troppo allegro
04. Ballade
05. 2 Pieces (1929): No. 1, February's Child
06. 2 Pieces (1929): No. 2, Aubade
07. Month's Mind
08. Greenways: No. 1, The Cherry Tree
09. Greenways: No. 2, Cypress
10. Greenways: No. 3, The Palm and May
11. Sarnia: No. 1, Le Catioroc
12. Sarnia: No. 2, in a May Morning
13. Sarnia: No. 3, Song of the Springtides
The piano music of English composer John Ireland is as richly imagined and fully realized a body of piano music as any written after Debussy. From the impressionism of the early works like Decorations through the neo-classical formalism of mature works like the Piano Sonata to the flirtation with atonality in late works like Sarnia -- An Island Sequence, Ireland's piano music stands as high in his output as his much better known orchestral works. In these three recordings from 1975, 1977, and 1978 by Eric Parkin, Ireland's piano music is given performances that consistently do the works full justice. Parkin can handle every extravagant technical demand made by the music, demands rivaling those made by Debussy or Scriabin. More importantly, Parkin is wholly sympathetic to Ireland's music, no matter what the style. He can clarify the sometimes gnarly writing with his supremely clean articulation and smooth the sometimes hard-edged sonorities with his deft use of the mute and sustain pedals. Though not for first-time Ireland listening - his orchestral Mai-Dun or The Forgotten Rite are more characteristic and more immediately appealing - anyone who already knows and loves Ireland's music need not delay. Lyrita's stereo sound is crisp, deep, and round.
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