Evening Song

Composer: IRELAND, John
  • Ireland’s Evening Song is a two-part song for female voices with text by American Unitarian minister and poet James Vila Blake, who had translated the German poetry of Friedrich Rückert. The work was written in 1912.
  • *This recording is an arrangement of the piece for 2 cellos and piano by Julian Lloyd Webber.1

Full text of “Evening Song” by James Vila Blake

Sources

  1. Bruce Phillips, “John Ireland (1879–1962)” in accompanying booklet, Delius & Ireland: Evening Songs performed by John Lenehan, Jiaxin Lloyd Webber, and Julian Lloyd Webber, Naxos 8.572902, 2012, compact disc.

Cut IDs

17159