Ina Boyle: Songs Paula Murrihy, Robin Tritschler, Ben Mcateer, Ian Burnside

• Ina Boyle (1889 - 1967):
• 1 Boyle: Since thou, O Fondest and Truest 01:56
• 2 Boyle: The Joy of Earth 02:03
• 3 Boyle: Three Songs by Walter de la Mare: I. Song of the Mad Prince 02:10
• 4 Boyle: Three Songs by Walter de la Mare: II. The Pigs & the Charcoal Burner 02:00
• 5 Boyle: Three Songs by Walter de la Mare: III. Moon, Reeds, Rushes 01:48
• 6 Boyle: A Mountain Woman Asks for Quiet that her Child May Sleep 02:12
• 7 Boyle: Looking Back: I. Carrowdore 01:45
• 8 Boyle: Looking Back: II. All Souls’ Night 01:45
• 9 Boyle: Looking Back: III. O ghost, That Has Gone 00:43
• 10 Boyle: Looking Back: IV. The Mill-Water 01:41
• 11 Boyle: Himself and his Fiddle 02:43
• 12 Boyle: Have You Heard News of My Boy Jack? 03:03
• 13 Boyle: Roses 01:53
• 14 Boyle: A Soft Day, Thank God! 01:30
• 15 Boyle: Eternity 01:53
• 16 Boyle: Sleep Song 02:42
• 17 Boyle: All Souls' Flower (A Chtistmas Carol) 03:14
• 18 Boyle: Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: I. Eternal Love 03:05
• 19 Boyle: Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: II. In the Desert 01:22
• 20 Boyle: Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: III. The Yoke 01:11
• 21 Boyle: Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: IV. Lord, in Love 01:56
• 22 Boyle: Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily: V. At the Altar 01:53
• 23 Boyle: A Song of Shadows 02:31
• 24 Boyle: A Song of Enchantment 02:55
• 25 Boyle: The Bringer of Dreams 03:52
• 26 Boyle: Longing 02:17
• 27 Boyle: Dust 01:08
• 28 Boyle: The Stolen Child 03:34
• 29 Boyle: Blessing 01:46
• 30 Boyle: They Went Forth 02:34
• 31 Boyle: Two Christmas Songs: I. So Blyssid be the Tyme 04:56
• 32 Boyle: Two Christmas Songs: II. Tyrle, Tyrlow, Tyrle, Tyrlow 04:29
• 33 Boyle: The Last Invocation 02:37
• Total Runtime 01:17:07

Info for Ina Boyle: Songs

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 RTÉ 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 Séamas 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 Pádraig Pearse.

Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano
Robin Tritschler, tenor
Ben McAteer, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano

Paula Murrihy
received her BMus from the DIT Conservatory in Dublin before continuing her studies in North America at the New England Conservatory. She was a member of Oper Frankfurt’s acclaimed ensemble, participated in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program and as an apprentice at Santa Fe Opera.

Recent highlights include her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, as Stéphano Roméo et Juliette, a return to Santa Fe Opera as Ruggiero in Alcina and Orlofsky Die Fledermaus and the Salzburg Festival as Idamante in Peter Sellars’ production of Idomeneo conducted by Teodor Currentzis. She recently appeared with the Dutch National Opera as Octavian Der Rosenkavalier and Sesto La Clemenza di Tito, at Opernhaus Zürich as Concepcion in L’heure Espagnole and Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Teatro Real in Madrid as Countess of Essex in Britten’s Gloriana.

On the concert platform she works regularly with MusicAeterna and Teodor Currentzis. She made her debut at the BBC Proms in 2017 in Haydn’s Paukenmesse, and has appeared with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris in Handel’s Messiah, the Spanish National Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.

In her 20-21 season Paula’s sings Dorabella Cosi fan tutte at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Clairon Capriccio at Opernhaus Zürich, and sings the title role Ariodante both in concert at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and in her company debut at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. On the concert platform Paula can be heard in Mozart Requiem at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl amongst others.

Robin Tritschler
graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and was a BBC New Generation Artist. He performed with the Welsh National Opera (Almaviva, Nemorino, Narraboth, Ferrando, Don Ottavio and Belmonte), Nantes Opera, Stadttheater Klagenfurt and La Monnaie; in concert with the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and Scottish Chamber orchestras, London Philharmonic Orchestra (Jurowski and Nézet-Séguin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Karabits) and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (de Waart), and at the BC Proms (Sir Mark Elder). He performs regularly in recital at Wigmore Hall, also appearing in Cologne, Amsterdam and Washington, as well as for the Aldeburgh and Aix-en-Provence festivals. His recording of World War One songs on Signum with Malcolm Martineau is critically acclaimed. In the 2016/17 season he appears with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Nathalie Stutzmann), Bayerische Rundfunk and NDR Hannover, and on tour with Collegium Vocale (Philippe Herreweghe) and Pygmalion (Raphael Pichon). He makes his debut with the Teatro Colon Buenos Aires.

Ben McAteer
is an alumnus of the National Opera Studio in London and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Before embarking on a musical career he studied Chemistry at the University of St Andrews.

​Recent operatic highlights include Schaunard La Bohème for Irish National Opera, Eisenstein Die Fledermaus and Marullo Rigoletto for Northern Ireland Opera, a concert performance of Die Tote Stadt as Frank & Fritz with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Earl of Mountararat in Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe at English National Opera, Count Almaviva in INO's production of Le Nozze di Figaro and Father Hansel & Gretel, which he also recently performed at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Ben sang the roles of Pangloss & Voltaire in Leonard Bernstein's Candide for West Green Opera and the Xi'an Symphony Orchestra. While in residence at Scottish Opera, he created the role of James in the world première of The Devil Inside, for which he won Outstanding Performance in Opera at the My Theatre Awards in Toronto. He also sang the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro and toured as Guglielmo in Cosí fan tutte and Pish-Tush in The Mikado.

Other notable roles include Falke Die Fledermaus and Goryanchikov From the House of the Dead for Welsh National Opera, Papageno The Magic Flute for Northern Ireland Opera, Astrologer/Abbot The Burning Fiery Furnace at Southrepps Music Festival, Sharpless Madama Butterfly at Opera Holland Park, Calchas La Belle Helène with Blackheath Opera and Mr Webb in the European première of Ned Rorem's Our Town.

​Ben has recorded the role of Jesus in Arthur Sullivan’s oratorio The Light of the World and Rupert Vernon in his operetta Haddon Hall, both with the BBC Concert Orchestra. He also features on a new CD of songs by the Irish composer Ina Boyle.

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