Description
About the Author
JEREMY DIBBLE is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Durham University where he taught for 30 years. He is the author of C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music (1998), Charles Villers Stanford: Man and Musician (original edition, 2002), Michele Esposito (2010). With the Boydell Press, Dibble has published John Stainer: A Life in Music (2007), Hamilton Harty: Musical Polymath (2013), British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950 (2018) (with Julian Horton) and The Music of Frederick Delius (2021).
Reviews
[T]he Ireland enthusiast [...] will enjoy dipping into the contents again and again. * FANFARE *
[A]n eminently readable [...] volume. * MUSICAL TIMES *
This impressively large book [...] contains almost everything the reader could wish to know about the composer John Ireland. * DELIUS SOCIETY JOURNAL *
[An] impressive publication, eagerly awaited and finely produced. * BMS NEWS *
[A] well constructed and more than comprehensive volume. [...] beautifully produced and copiously illustrated [...] highly recommended. * ELGAR SOCIETY JOURNAL *
What a cornucopia this is for admirers of Ireland's music, as the 50th anniversary of his death is marked for this year. [...] Many musical examples and some wonderful photographs enhance this splendid, thoroughly recommendable book. * CLASSICAL MUSIC *
[T]his Companion (and a forthcoming collection of letters) will have to stand as the nearest thing to a true portrait of the man. * FINZI JOURNAL *
Comprehensive and magisterial. * CHURCH TIMES *
Any reader interested in the music of John Ireland will find this book a marvellous source of information [...] handsomely illustrated and beautifully produced. * RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS SOCIETY JOURNAL *
In this substantial hardback, Ireland himself is brought to life through sympathetic explanations and pertinent recollections as well as exhaustive listings of repertoire and recordings [...] Much is revealed - a timely opportunity to stimulate or re-excite interest in a considerable composer. * GRAMOPHONE *
[T]he latest monument to Lewis Foreman's heroic toil for British music. [...] A very impressive achievement. * BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE [5 stars] *
Lewis Foreman deserves a medal for his Stakhanovite endeavours. A bouquet is in order, too, for the superb standards of production and proof-reading. ... [A] mighty achievement. John Ireland has come home. * INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW *
The present volume takes a vitally important place in the relatively sparse bibliographical catalogue of John Ireland's life and music. [...] This book is essential reading for all enthusiasts of John Ireland's music in particular and British music in general. * MUSIC WEB INTERNATIONAL *
Book Information
ISBN 9781843836865
Author Lewis Foreman
Format Hardback
Page Count 600
Imprint The Boydell Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g