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The John Ireland companion
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- Creator
- edited by Lewis Foreman ; with a foreword by Julian Lloyd Webber
- Format
- Books; Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Pres, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xxxiv, 529 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 9781843836865, 1843836866
- OCLC
- ocn706026304
- Accompanied by an audio disc of historical recordings of John Ireland and his music.
- Includes bibliographical references, works catalog, discography (pages 449-494), and indexes.
- 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