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John Ireland - 70th Birthday Concert | LPO LPO0041

John Ireland - 70th Birthday Concert

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Label: LPO

Cat No: LPO0041

Barcode: 0854990001413

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 1st September 2009

Contents

Artists

Eileen Joyce (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Adrian Boult

Works

Ireland, John

A London Overture
Piano Concerto in E flat major
The Forgotten Rite
» Prelude
These things shall be

Artists

Eileen Joyce (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Adrian Boult

About

Sir Adrian Boult championed his fellow British composers and the results can be heard to this day on a multitude of recordings with the LPO on Decca and Lyrita, many still considered benchmark recordings.

Eileen Joyce is one of the few female classical artists to have enjoyed a celebrity, almost pop status, commencing during WWII and continuing right through the 1950s, her popularity often being compared with that of Vera Lynn. As Vera Lynn was the 'Wartime Sweetheart', entertaining the troops, Eileen Joyce also boosted morale through the war, performing as part of Jack Hylton's Blitz Tours. Her audience grew immensely through her film appearances, most famously performing the Rachmaninov concerto in Brief Encounter.

As an Australian, she was a 'colonial' showman in Britain at a time of elite intellectual and social snobbery, and this somewhat worked against her, Joyce opting for the BBC Proms popular concerts at the expense of the Royal Philharmonic Society recognition enjoyed by her contemporaries Solomon and Curzon.

John Ireland drew musical inspiration from his English heritage, its poets and landscapes. He became a celebrated composer during the first half of the 20th century, championed by conductors such as Sir Adrian Boult, who conducted the première of These things shall be in 1937. Boult programmed this Promenade concert in 1949 to mark Ireland’s 70th birthday.

Eileen Joyce made the first ever recording of the Ireland piano concerto in 1934, this being her only other recording of the work.

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