There are too few recordings of John Ireland's chamber music, but, then, there are also too few recordings of John Ireland's music in any other genre. Considering the skill, passion, breadth, and depth of the English modernist's achievement, this is a shame. Fortunately for Ireland, the recordings of his music that do get released are consistently first rate. The standard recordings of his chamber music in the stereo age were released on Lyrita with violinist Yfrah Neaman, cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, and pianist Eric ...
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There are too few recordings of John Ireland's chamber music, but, then, there are also too few recordings of John Ireland's music in any other genre. Considering the skill, passion, breadth, and depth of the English modernist's achievement, this is a shame. Fortunately for Ireland, the recordings of his music that do get released are consistently first rate. The standard recordings of his chamber music in the stereo age were released on Lyrita with violinist Yfrah Neaman, cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, and pianist Eric Parkin turning in performances that were sympathetic, virtuosic, and completely persuasive. The standard recordings in the digital age were released by Chandos with violinist Lydia Mordkovitch, cellist Karine Georgian, and pianist Ian Brown, and those recordings are repackaged here as a two-disc set.The biggest difference between the two collections isn't the repertoire: both Lyrita and Chandos include the two violin sonatas and the three piano trios as well as the cello sonata and the...
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