Songs from the North of Ireland: Dorothy Parke | Joan Trimble Dunedin Consort this idiomatic and committed reading

this idiomatic and committed reading by Rory McCleery and The Marian Consort of the composer’s five-voice motets invites us to marvel afresh – at their pictorial immediacy

the young Scottish composer Cecil Coles sent his friend and mentor Gustav Holst a score

The repertoire is as wonderful as the instruments

coupled with the skill to sustain lengthy phrases with even tone

and whether it be the ‘almost stereotypical word-painting in Seascape’s surging waves of piano figures’

Songs from the North of Ireland: Dorothy Parke | Joan Trimble Dunedin Consort this idiomatic and committed readingLimited Edition: 300 CDs available worldwide SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Following the success of their partnership in Calen O: Songs from the North of Ireland, Carolyn Dobbin and Iain Burnside return to Ulsters 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