"It was socially distanced ‘lights, camera, action’ at the Wigmore Hall as performers brought the music of Ina Boyle to Life."
Discover the behind-the-scenes work that goes in to bringing Ina Boyle's wonderful music to life with interviews by musicians, researchers and the IBSL's founder, Katie Rowan.
The recording session at Wigmore Hall will be released in 2021 as an album of Ina Boyle’s vocal music with Delphian Records, featuring Ben McAteer (Baritone), Paula Murrihy (Mezzo Soprano), Robin Tritschler (Tenor) and Iain Burnside (Pianist).
The recording 37 songs by the Irish composer required a great deal of restorative work to create typeset editions of the music. In fact, 95% of the songs were previously only in Ina’s original manuscripts. The work of Government of Ireland PhD Scholar, Orla Shannon, has been crucial to the album’s creation:
"We went into Trinity College Dublin, photographed the original manuscripts that will have been in Ina Boyle’s own handwriting and created typeset critical editions of these scores."
The songs available on the upcoming album will paint a picture of Ina Boyle’s entire musical life, spanning from her early works from around the time of the First World War to the Three Songs by Walter de la Mare. In an article that details the recording session, Roy Stanley writes:
“Boyle was inspired to set words by a wide range of poets, from Sir Philip Sidney, George Herbert and Robert Herrick to more recent writers such as Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Sitwell, and Walter de la Mare. Settings of poems by several near-contemporary Irish poets also feature – Eva Gore-Booth, Patrick Pearse, W.B. Yeats, Austin Clarke, and James Stephens.”
You can find Roy’s full article, The Show Must Go On, here.