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A Purse of Gold
Irish Songs by Herbert Hughes

Ailish Tynan
Iain Burnside


"The word 'arrangement' as Burnside suggests, doesn't do justice to the inventive piano writing and pacing of so many of these pieces ... Soprano Ailish Tynan's feeling for the musical idiom and, above all, the poetry of her countrymen, matched by Burnside's delightfully poetic pianism, prove irresistible. Highly recommended"

Classic FM

 
       

Classic FM, January 2008, *****

Iain Burnside's latest venture into 'English' songs shifts geographical perspective to the music of Belfast-born Herbert Hughes, generously served up here in the irresistible form of his Irish folk tunes. The word 'arrangement' as Burnside suggests, doesn't do justice to the inventive piano writing and pacing of so many of these pieces. For your money you'll hear jaunty japes and catch the full force of sentiment in songs such as 'Oh, breathe not his name'. Soprano Ailish Tynan's feeling for the musical idiom and, above all, the poetry of her countrymen, matched by Burnside's delightfully poetic pianism, prove irresistible. Highly recommended.

Andrew Stewart

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Release date: October 2007
Order code: SIGCD106
Barcode: 635212010624

 

A Purse of Gold
Irish songs by Herbert Hughes (1882 - 1937)
1. Reynardine [1.50]
2. The Fanaid Grove [3.06]
3. The Leprehaun [1.40]
4. When through life unblest we rove [3.09]
5. Oh, breathe not his name [1.56]
6. I’m a decent good Irish body [1.06]
7. She weeps over Rahoon [3.25]
8. The Magpie’s nest [0.46]
9. Johnny Doyle
 [5.29]
10. Cruckhaun Finn [5.23]
11. Johnny I hardly knew ye [2.26]
12. The Gartan Mother’s Lullaby [2.37]
13. You couldn’t stop a lover [0.32]
14. I will walk with my love [1.47]
15. She moved thro’ the fair [3.00]
16. The Bard of Armagh [3.56]
17. The old turf fire [1.23]
18. O father, father build me a boat [5.03]
19. B for Barney [0.35]
20. She lived beside the Anner [3.55]
21. The stuttering lovers
 [1.46]
22. I know where I’m goin’ [2.01]
23. A young maid stood in her father’s garden [3.35]
24. The Spanish Lady [2.19]
25. Tigaree torum orum [3.01]
Total [66.02]

 

 

 

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