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A Purse of Gold: Irish Songs by Herbert Hughes ()

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A Purse of Gold: Irish Songs by Herbert Hughes - Ailish Tynan (soprano); Iain Burnside (piano)
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  1. Reynardine ("If by chance you look for me"), for voice & piano
  2. The Fanaid Grove ("Twas on a winter's ev'ning"), for voice & piano
  3. The Leprehaun ("In a shady nook one moonlit night"), for voice & piano
  4. When through life unblest we rove, for voice & piano
  5. Oh, breathe not his name, for voice & piano
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  1. Reynardine ("If by chance you look for me"), for voice & piano
  2. The Fanaid Grove ("Twas on a winter's ev'ning"), for voice & piano
  3. The Leprehaun ("In a shady nook one moonlit night"), for voice & piano
  4. When through life unblest we rove, for voice & piano
  5. Oh, breathe not his name, for voice & piano
  6. I'm a decent good Irish body, for voice & piano
  7. She weeps over Rahoon ("Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling"), for voice & piano
  8. The Magpie's nest ("If I were a king I would make you my queen"), for voice & piano
  9. Johnny Doyle ("There's one thing between us that I do confess"), for voice & piano
  10. Cruckhaun Finn ("Tonight you see my face"), for voice & piano
  11. Johnny I hardly knew ye ("When going the road to sweet Athy, Huroo!"), for voice & piano
  12. The Gartan Mother's Lullaby ("Sleep, O babe"), for voice & piano
  13. You couldn't stop a lover ("You might well cause an eagle to come down"), for voice & piano
  14. I will walk with my love ("I once loved a boy"), for voice & piano
  15. She moved thro' the fair ("My young love said to me..."), for voice & piano
  16. Bard of Armagh ("O list' to the strains of a poor Irish harper"), for voice & piano
  17. The old turf fire, for voice & piano
  18. O father, father build me a boat ("It was early, early in the month of May"), for voice & piano
  19. B for Barney, for voice & piano
  20. She lived beside the Anner, for voice & piano
  21. The stuttering lovers ("A wee bit over the lea"), for voice & piano
  22. I know where I'm goin', for voice & piano
  23. A young maid stood in her father's garden, for voice & piano
  24. The Spanish Lady ("I walked down thro' Dublin city"), for voice & piano
  25. Tigaree torum orum ("There was a wise old woman and her story I will tell"), for voice & piano
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Hubert Hughes (1882-1937), born in Belfast, was a composer, journalist, and song collector. The subtitle "Irish Songs by Herbert Hughes" is ambivalent, and intentionally so -- the music heard on this disc has remained obscure in comparison with other British collections of Irish song probably because what Hughes did with his Irish source material is difficult to classify. "Is arrangement . . . the right word?" asks annotator Philip Lancaster. "At what point do they become compositions? This CD clearly has examples of both, ...

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A Purse of Gold: Irish Songs by Herbert Hughes 2007, Signum UK

UPC: 635212010624

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