GERALD FINZI
Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain / To a Poet / By Footpath and Stile Iain Burnside / Roderick Williams / Sacconi Quartet [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 15 / CD - released 3/Aug/2006 ] "Roderick Williams is a national treasure. Not only is he an intensely musical singer, acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, but also his approach to the English Romantic song repertoire is - much over used word, but I can't see any... |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: Young Man's Exhortation (A) / Till Earth Outwears / Oh Fair to See (English Song, Vol. 16) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) / Iain Burnside (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2007 ] "For lovers of English song, this is an indispensable disc, especially with this thoughtfully compiled programme." (MusicWeb Feb 2008) |
EDMUND RUBBRA
Songs by Edmund Rubbra Lucy Crowe (soprano) Claire Barnett-Jones (mezzo) Marcus Farnsworth (baritone) Timothy Ridout (viola) Catrin Finch (harp) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Whilst the English composer Edmund Rubbra is best known for his symphonic output, he composed a good deal of vocal music, and wrote songs throughout his compositional life. Rubbra studied with Cyril Scott and Gustav Holst, and was a great friend of... |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: I Said to Love / Let Us Garlands Bring / Before and After Summer Roderick Williams (baritone) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 12 / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] "A lovely rich, velvety tone, gorgeous in the lower register, great sensitivity to both text and music, enunciation excellent, and good pacing. Strongly recommended ... " (MusicWeb July 2005) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Schwanengesang (with Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98) Roderick Williams (baritone) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "Williams sings German as a non-native speaker in the best sense, harnessing the words with a sense of discovery of how much closer they bring him to the archetypes within the various verses" Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2020 |
JOHN IRELAND
Songs (Incls 'Five Poems by Thomas Hardy') Roderick Williams (Baritone) / Iain Burnside (Piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 18 / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "Roderick Williams is such a good singer he can make the voice part sound vocal and natural in a way not many have succeeded in doing. …the pianist, Iain Burnside, plays with a sureness of touch to match the highly skilled naturalness of Williams's... |
SCHUMANN / KILPINEN / BRAHMS
Nature's Solace Stephan Loges (bass-baritone), Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 23/Nov/2018 ] Bass-baritone Stephan Loges is accompanied by Iain Burnside in a collection that explores concepts of lost youth, the transience of life and the comforting presence of nature. The programme features performances of Schumann's 12 Gedichte Op. 35 and... |
R.L. Burnside
R.L. Burnside's First Recordings (Vinyl) [ Fat Possum Records / LP - released 13/May/2008 ] |
RL Burnside
Too Bad Jim (LP) [ LP - released 6/Jul/2011 ] |
GURNEY / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Ludlow and Teme / On Wenlock Edge Adrain Thompson (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Iain Burnside (piano) / The Delme String Quartet [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 26/Jan/2005 ] 'I recommend this record to every serious collector of songs' (American Record Guide) |
FAURE
Fauré Mélodies Ailish Tynan (soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano) [ Opus Arte / CD - released 15/Jan/2014 ] The mélodies of Gabriel Fauré lie at the heart of his romantic but elusive style, and this selection ranges from the composer's youthful embrace of Italian style to late and quietly innovative settings of Verlaine. |
TRADITIONAL
An Irish Songbook Ailish Tynan (soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2011 ] "The disc is full of interest. There are lovely, unknown tunes, seductively sung and hauntingly harmonised. It has pathos and wild joy in equal measure. An excellent recital." (Classic FM) |
HERBERT HUGHES
A Purse of Gold: Irish Songs by Herbert Hughes Ailish Tynan (soprano) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum Classics / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] "I cannot imagine a more welcome present than this for any lover of song." (MusicWeb Jan 2008) |
FREDERIC MOMPOU
Spanish Songs Roger Padullés (tenor) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Opus Arte Rosenblatt Recitals / CD - released 20/Nov/2014 ] The Catalan tenor presents a studio recording entirely devoted to the beautiful songs of his great Catalan-Spanish compatriot, Federico Mompou (1893-1987). Though Mompou's fame rests largely on his solo piano works, his many songs comprise the other... |
IAN VENABLES
On the Wings of Love / Venetian Songs Andrew Kennedy (tenor) / Richard Hosford (clarinet) / Iain Burnside (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 21 / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "[Venables] manages to create worthwhile new artefacts within his conservative idiom. Expertly crafted, the results offer something genuinely personal and at times profound." (BBC Music Choral & Song Choice - December 2010) |
DEBUSSY / RAVEL / FAURE / WARLOCK / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / MOZART
Insomnia: A nocturnal voyage in song William Berger (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano) [ Delphian / CD - released 30/Jul/2012 ] "Berger has a warm, resonant baritone and an hour spent in its company is a pleasurable experience … the partnership between Berger and Iain Burnside yields some fine performances" Gramophone |
MARTIN SHAW
Shaw: Songs - The Airmen Sophie Bevan (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano) [ Delphian / CD - released 6/Feb/2012 ] "This attractive selection benefits from having three excellent singers, all with good diction. With persuasive performances like these it looks as if there's a case for making room for another English song composer." Gramophone |
Burnside/Tynan/Bickley/Dazely
Parry: From A City Window (Voc [ Delphian / CD - released 14/Jan/2013 ] |
TRIMBLE / HARTY / FERGUSON / WOOD
Calen-O: Songs from the North Of Ireland Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo-soprano), Iain Burnside (piano) [ Delphian / CD - released 16/Mar/2018 ] A passionate advocate for the art music of her native Northern Ireland, mezzo-soprano Carolyn Dobbin has put together this programme that attests to a rich - yet little known - tradition. Who knew that doyen of Anglican church music Charles Wood was... |
Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm
2 Man Wrecking Crew [ CD - released 4/Nov/2008 ] |