Martyn Hill, Peter Dickinson, Meriel Dickinson - James Joyce's Favourite Songs (2020)

Tracklist

01. Chamber Music: I. Strings in the earth and air
02. Chamber Music: II. The twilight turns from amethyst
03. Chamber Music: III. At that hour
04. Chamber Music: IV. When the shy star
05. Chamber Music: V. Lean out of the window
06. Chamber Music: VI. I would in that sweet bosom be
07. Chamber Music: VII. My love is in a light attire
08. Chamber Music: VIII. Who goes amid the green wood
09. Chamber Music: IX. Winds of May
10. Chamber Music: X. Bright cap and streamers
11. Chamber Music: XI. Bid adieu
12. Chamber Music: XII. Go seek her out
13. Chamber Music: XIII. My dove, my beautiful one
14. Chamber Music: XIV. From dewy dreams
15. Chamber Music: XV. O cool is the valley
16. Chamber Music: XVI. Because your voice
17. Chamber Music: XVII. O sweetheart hear you
18. Chamber Music: XVIII. Be not sad
19. Chamber Music: XIX. In the dark pinewood
20. Chamber Music: XX. He who hath glory lost
21. Chamber Music: XXI. Of that so sweet imprisonment
22. Chamber Music: XXII. This heart that flutters near my heart
23. Chamber Music: XXIII. Silently she’s combing
24. Chamber Music: XXIV. Lightly come or lightly go
25. Chamber Music: XXV. Thou leanest to the shell of night
26. Chamber Music: XXVI. Though I thy Mithridates were
27. Chamber Music: XXVII. Gentle lady
28. Chamber Music: XXVIII. Love came to us
29. Chamber Music: XXIX. O it was out by Donnycarney
30. Chamber Music: XXX. Sleep now
31. Chamber Music: XXXI. All day I hear
32. Chamber Music: XXXII. I hear an army
33. Tilly
34. Watching the needleboats at San Sabba
35. A flower given to my daughter
36. She weeps over Rahoon
37. Tutto e sciolto
38. On the beach at Fontana
39. Simples
40. Flood
41. Nightpiece
42. Alone
43. A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight
44. Bahnhofstrasse
45. A prayer


An enterprising release featuring James Joyce’s poems including G. Molyneux Palmer’s setting of ‘Chamber Music’, performed by Martyn Hill and a performance by Meriel Dickinson of a selection of 13 songs by more familiar composers: Moeran, Bax, Roussel, Herbert Hughes, Ireland, Sessions, Bliss, Howells, Antheil, Edgardo Carducci, Goossens, C. W. Orr, Van Dieren. Both recordings were made for the BBC in 1988 and 1982 respectively and appear here on CD for the very first time. Of particular interest is the cycle by Palmer, a kind of Irish Winterreise that adds significantly to the history of Georgian song. Palmer was a pupil of Stanford who spent the last thirty years of his life in Dublin, latterly as an invalid, where his music, including operas and choral pieces, gained some performances. Letters between Joyce and Palmer show how enthusiastic Joyce was about these songs.

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