Carolyn Dobbin, Iain Burnside - Songs from the North of Ireland: Dorothy Parke | Joan Trimble (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. The Road to Ballydare
02. A Song of Good Courage
03. St Columba’s Poem on Derry
04. The County Mayo: I. The County Mayo
05. The County Mayo: II. Inis Fál
06. The County Mayo: III. Peggy Mitchell
07. The County Mayo: IV. In the Poppy Field
08. To the Sailors
09. Wee Hughie
10. Song in Exile
11. A Honeycomb: I. Lesbia
12. A Honeycomb: II. The Queen of the Bees
13. A Honeycomb: III. The Daisies
14. A Honeycomb: IV. The Coolin
15. A Honeycomb: V. The Canal Bank
16. The Wind from the West
17. Weathers
18. Blind Raftery: Son ri en los ojos
19. Kilkeel
20. Moon Magic
21. Sing heigh-ho!
22. Has sorrow thy young days shaded?
23. A Cradle Song (O men from the fields)
24. Blind Raftery: Over the purple hills
25. The House and the Road
26. The Falling of the Leaves
27. The Fairies
28. A Wanderer’s Song



Following the success of their partnership in Calen-O: Songs from the North of Ireland, Carolyn Dobbin and Iain Burnside return to Ulster's rich but undervalued musical heritage with a programme of songs by two twentieth-century women, all but a few of them premiere recordings.

Dorothy Parke is well known for her songs for children but is revealed here as a much more wide-ranging composer, steeped in the folk melody and poetry of Ireland. Joan Trimble, an accomplished concert pianist, left behind only a handful of published songs but a small trove of manuscripts, including her opera Blind Raftery, written for BBC Television in 1957, two arias from which complete this journey of discovery.

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