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The John Ireland Companion (Hardcover)
Lewis Foreman; Contributions by Colin Scott-Sutherland, Bruce Phillips, Alan Rowlands, Fiona Richards, …
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Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his death, this
book presents new articles by leading authorities on John Ireland
and his music, together with transcriptions of his broadcast talks
and of interviews with the composer. 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 remarkable body of music. In Ireland's case his was not
only the most popular British Piano Concerto of its time, but he
also composed a splendid repertoire of songs,piano music, chamber
music and orchestral and choral scores. This richly illustrated
Companion will be essential for all admirers of the composer. Not
only for the performer - pianist, singer, conductor - but for
thewider musical public, record collectors and music historians,
academics and anyone interested in British music of the earlier
twentieth century. Lewis Foreman has drawn on his extensive
research into Ireland's life and letters over many years, and, in
association with the John Ireland Charitable Trust, has not only
commissioned a wide range of chapters from leading performers and
writers of today, but has brought together in one convenient format
Ireland's own writings on music, the memories of his friends and
students (including Britten, Moeran and Arnell) and a selection of
important earlier articles. The Companion also includes a complete
list of works and themost comprehensive discography of Ireland ever
compiled. The accompanying CD contains historical recordings
featuring the voice of John Ireland, with two of his broadcast
talks, as well as otherwise unobtainable performances of Ireland's
music from the composer himself and from other well-known
performers of the past. LEWIS FOREMAN is author of Bax: A Composer
and His Time [Boydell, 2007] and London: a Musical Gazetteer [Yale
2005]. Contributors: FELIX APRAHAMIAN, RICHARD ARNELL, BENJAMIN
BRITTEN, JOCELYN BROOKE, ALAN BUSH, GEOFFREY BUSH, GEORGE DANNATT,
JULIE DELLER, JEREMY DIBBLE, EDWIN EVANS, LEWIS FOREMAN, NORAH
KIRBY, FREDERICK LAMOND, PHILIP LANCASTER, STEPHEN LE PROVOST,
STEPHEN LLOYD, CHARLES MARKES, ROBERT MATTHEW-WALKER, E.J. MOERAN,
ANGUS MORRISON, ERIC PARKIN, BRUCE PHILLIPS, C. B. REES, FIONA
RICHARDS, ALAN ROWLANDS, R. MURRAY SCHAFER, MARION SCOTT, COLIN
SCOTT-SUTHERLAND, HUMPHREY SEARLE, FREDA SWAIN, KENNETH THOMPSON,
RODERICK WILLIAMS, KENNETH A. WRIGHT
This collection of essays covers virtually all of Stevenson's
enormous output and features contributions from leading
authorities. Ronald Stevenson is one of Britain's leading
composers, and almost certainly its most prolific. He is best known
for his massive Passacaglia on DSCH - at 80 minutes long, the
biggest single-movement work in the piano literature. But he has an
enormous number of other fine works to his credit: a vast corpus of
original and exciting works for the piano, the instrument of which
he is an acknowledged master, a number of innovative and impressive
scores for orchestra [including four concertos], many attractive
pieces of chamber music, and over two hundred songs. All of them
testify to Stevenson's enduring belief in the value of melody.
Stevenson is also one of the last representatives of the great
tradition of Romantic composer-pianists - the tradition that
embraced Paderewski and Busoni, two figures with whom he feels a
particularly affinity, and whose heritage he has extended, both as
performer and creative personality, into the modern age. This
collection of essays covers virtually all of Stevenson's enormous
output. It features contributions from a number of leading
authorities: Malcolm MacDonald on the orchestral music, Ates Orga
on the piano works, Alistair Chisholm on the chamber music, Derek
Watson on the songs, Harold Taylor on Stevenson's pianism, Jamie
Reid Baxter on the choral music and on Stevenson's position in
Scottish culture. It also reproduces a selection of Stevenson's
exquisite piano miniatures, in facsimiles of the composer's
calligraphic script. In a Foreword written shortly before his
death, Lord Menuhin describes Stevenson as 'one of the most
original minds in the composition of music' and predicts that 'his
music will be appreciated more and more'. This book is a major step
in that process of discovery. COLIN SCOTT-SUTHERLAND has
contributed several articles on RonaldStevenson's work to various
journals, and a chapter on his music to British Music Now.
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