Piatti Quartet - Boyle, Vaughan Williams, Moeran & Ireland (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Until recently we were unaware of the rich output of Irish composer Ina Boyle, who was never quite forgotten becauseshe was the only woman composer to be published in the Carnegie Collection of British music with her atmospheric orchestral rhapsody The Magic Harp of 1919. Boyle spent her life living at the substantial family home at Bushey Park, near Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, and she only left it for brief visits to London, including lessons with Vaughan Williams. At the end of the First World War she produced a brief choral elegy Soldiers at Peace which was widely sung at the time although rejected by the Carnegie Committee (revived in Hampstead in 2018). The Magic Harp dates from 1919 and a programmatic symphony, In the Wicklow Hills the mid-1920s. During the 1930s she produced a notable violin concerto
(in memory of her mother), a Second Symphony, an Overture for orchestra and several stage works including the ballet Virgilian Suite, The Dance of Death (a masque for dancing after Holbein) and the mimed drama The Vision of Er. A third symphony followed, setting Edith Sitwell for contralto and orchestra.

TRACKLIST

1. Piatti Quartet - I. Crug-Y-Bar (Fantasia)
2. Piatti Quartet - II. St Denio (Scherzo)
3. Piatti Quartet - III. Aberystwyth (Variations)
4. Piatti Quartet - I. Allegro moderato
5. Piatti Quartet - II. Adagio
6. Piatti Quartet - III. Allegro molto
7. Piatti Quartet - The Holy Boy
8. Piatti Quartet - String Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major: I. Allegro moderato ma ben animato
9. Piatti Quartet - String Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major: II. Lento



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