A Purse of Gold: Irish Songs by Herbert Hughes

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HERBERT HUGHES
A Purse of Gold: Irish Songs by Herbert Hughes
Ailish Tynan (soprano) Iain Burnside (piano)

[ Signum Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 30 November 2007

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"I cannot imagine a more welcome present than this for any lover of song."
(MusicWeb Jan 2008)

"A notable debut recital in the Rosenblatt series at St John's Smith Square was that of the young Irish soprano currently singing Papagena at Covent Garden, Ailish Tynan. With a lyric voice of delicious purity, she sang an aptly chosen programme. It is a voice that can sparkle without becoming hard and she is accomplished in her florid work." Opera Now, April 2003

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 disc 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 disc as much a literary landscape, as a musical one with words by Thomas Moore & James Joyce. Beautifully performed by Ailish Tynan & Iain Burnside.

Tracks:

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]