Artist: Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside
Album: Ina Boyle: Songs
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2021
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:17:21
Total Tracks: 33
Total Size: 1,18 GB

Tracklist:

01. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Since thou, O Fondest and Truest (01:56)
02. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: The Joy of Earth (02:03)
03. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Three Songs by Walter de la Mare: I. Song of the Mad Prince (02:10)
04. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Three Songs by Walter de la Mare: II. The Pigs & the Charcoal Burner (02:00)
05. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Three Songs by Walter de la Mare: III. Moon, Reeds, Rushes (01:48)
06. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: A Mountain Woman Asks for Quiet that her Child May Sleep (02:12)
07. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Looking Back: I. Carrowdore (01:45)
08. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Looking Back: II. All Souls’ Night (01:45)
09. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Looking Back: III. O ghost, That Has Gone (00:43)
10. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Looking Back: IV. The Mill-Water (01:41)
11. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Himself and his Fiddle (02:43)
12. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Have You Heard News of My Boy Jack? (03:03)
13. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Roses (01:53)
14. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: A Soft Day, Thank God! (01:30)
15. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Eternity (01:53)
16. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Sleep Song (02:42)
17. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: All Souls’ Flower (A Chtistmas Carol) (03:14)
18. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: I. Eternal Love (03:05)
19. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: II. In the Desert (01:22)
20. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: III. The Yoke (01:11)
21. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: IV. Lord, in Love (01:56)
22. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: V. At the Altar (01:53)
23. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: A Song of Shadows (02:31)
24. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: A Song of Enchantment (02:55)
25. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: The Bringer of Dreams (03:52)
26. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Longing (02:17)
27. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Dust (01:08)
28. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: The Stolen Child (03:34)
29. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Blessing (01:46)
30. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: They Went Forth (02:34)
31. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Two Christmas Songs: I. So Blyssid be the Tyme (04:56)
32. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: Two Christmas Songs: II. Tyrle, Tyrlow, Tyrle, Tyrlow (04:29)
33. Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside – Boyle: The Last Invocation (02:37)

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In lifelong seclusion in rural County Wicklow, Ina Boyle created a legacy of song – tender, often melancholy, illuminated by an exquisite sense for harmony. ‘I think it is most courageous of you to go on with such little recognition,’ wrote Vaughan Williams to his pupil. ‘The only thing to say is that it does come finally.’Amid the 2020 pandemic, Iain Burnside gathered three superb Irish singers at London’s Wigmore Hall. Recorded in less than five hours, the resulting 80 minutes of music unveil a composer who is one of Ireland’s ‘invisible heroines’.

Half a century after Boyle’s death, is Vaughan Williams’s prediction at last coming true?

Boyle, born near Enniskerry in County Wicklow in 1889, studied under Vaughan Williams and composed a range of choral, chamber and orchestral music, plus songs, ballet scores and an opera. She received an honourable mention for her work at the 1948 London Olympics, when the competition still had a music award. A documentary on her work was broadcast on RT’E Lyric FM in 2010 (listen below) and her music featured at the Composing the Island festival in 2018. The same year an album of her orchestral music was released on the Dutton label and a biography by Ita Beausang and S’eamas de Barra was published by Cork University Press. Boyle died in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, in 1967.

The songs that will be included in the recording for Delphian date from 1905 to 1966 and include settings of texts by Eva Gore-Booth, George ‘AE’ Russell, Austin Clarke, Walt Whitman, Walter de la Mare, and P’adraig Pearse.