James Joyce's Favourite Songs

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.

1: Strings in the Earth and Air
2: The Twilight Turns from Amethyst
3: At That Hour
4: When the Shy Star
5: Lean Out of the Window
6: I Would in That Sweet Bosom Be
7: My Love Is in a Light Attire
8: Who Goes Amid the Green Wood
9: Winds of May
10: Bright Cap and Streamers
11: Bid Adieu
12: Go Seek Her Out
13: My Dove, My Beautiful One
14: From Dewy Dreams
15: O Cool Is the Valley
16: Because Your Voice
17: O Sweetheart Hear You
18: Be Not Sad
19: In the Dark Pinewood
20: He Who Hath Glory Lost
21: Of That So Sweet Imprisonment
22: This Heart That Flutters Near My Heart
23: Silently She's Combing
24: Lightly Come Or Lightly Go
25: Thou Leanest to the Shell of Night
26: Though I Thy Mithridates Were
27: Gentle Lady
28: Love Came to Us
29: O It Was Out By Donnycarney
30: Sleep Now
31: All Day I Hear
32: 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

Composer: Charles Wilfred Orr, George Antheil, Albert Roussel, Roger Sessions, Arnold Bax, G. Molyneux Palmer, John Ireland, Eugene Goossens, Herbert Hughes, Arthur Bliss, Bernard Van Dieren, Ernest John Moeran, Herbert Howells, Edgardo Carducci

Number of Discs: 1

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