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John Ireland
p, GB
Musician / Composer of Classical
A.k.a. John Nicholson Ireland
John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 1879 – 12 June 1962) was an English composer and teacher of classical music. The majority of his output consists of piano miniatures and of songs with piano. His best-known works include the hymn "The Holy Boy" and a setting of the poem "Sea Fever" by John Masefield.
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Popular Tracks 
Communion Service in C Major: Kyrie on Ireland: Church Music by John Ireland, Lincoln Cathedral Choir & Aric Prentice My song is love unknown (Love Unknown) on Best Loved Hymns by Choir of King's College, Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury In Trutina on In Paradisum by Gabriel Fauré, Gregorio Allegri & John Ireland The Vagabond on Ireland: 5 Poems / We'Ll To the Woods No More / Sea Fever / Santa Chiara by John Ireland & Roderick Williams The Holy Boy on Ireland: Orchestral and Choral Works by John Ireland, Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra, Bryn Terfel, Paula Bott, Teresa Shaw, James Oxley, Roderick elms & London Symphony Chorus Communion Service in C Major: Agnus Dei on Ireland: Church Music by John Ireland, Lincoln Cathedral Choir & Aric Prentice Communion Service in C Major: Sanctus on Ireland: Church Music by John Ireland, Lincoln Cathedral Choir & Aric Prentice A Downland Suite: III. Minuet on Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3: Orchestral Favourites, Vol. II by English String Orchestra & William Boughton Love Unknown "My Song Is Love Unknown" on The Complete New English Hymnal, Vol. 10 by Truro Cathedral Choir, Christopher Gray & Andrew Nethsingha In Summer Woods (arr. J. Lloyd Webber for 2 cellos and piano) on Delius & Ireland: Evening Songs by Julian Lloyd WebberTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Downland Suite For Orchestra / The Overlanders / Julius Caesar | John Ireland - Royal Scottish National Orchestra Conducted By Martin Yates | 2018 | Album |
| Echoes Of Land & Sea | Benjamin Britten, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Roderick Williams, Maria Marchant | 2017 | Album |
| British Music For Violin And Piano | Sir Edward Elgar • Frank Bridge • Frederick Delius • Cyril Scott • John Ireland - Clare Howick, John Paul Ekins | 2017 | Album |
| English Piano Concerti | Jane Coop, CBC Radio Orchestra, Mario Bernardi, Benjamin Britten / Alan Rawsthorne / John Ireland / Gerald Finzi | 2017 | Album |
| Sea-Croon | Eric Fogg, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Frederic Austin, Greville Cooke, William Alwyn, Benjamin Burrows | 2017 | Album |
| British Cello Sonatas | John Ireland, Frederick Delius, Arnold Bax, Lionel Handy, Jennifer Hughes | 2017 | Album |
| The Piano Music Of John Ireland Vol. 4 | Mark Bebbington - John Ireland | 2012 | Album |
| Evening Songs | Frederick Delius / John Ireland, Julian Lloyd Webber, Jiaxin Cheng, John Lenehan | 2012 | Album |
| My Song Is A Love Unknown | John Ireland, Lincoln Cathedral Choir, Charles Harrison, Aric Prentice | 2012 | Album |
| Piano Concerto: Legend, First Rhapsody, A Sea Idyll | John Ireland / John Lenehan / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / John Wilson | 2011 | Album |
| Complete Organ Works | John Ireland / Stefan Kagl | 2010 | Album |
| Orchestral Songs And Miniatures | John Ireland / Roderick Williams / The BBC Concert Orchestra / John Wilson / Martin Yates | 2010 | Album |
| Mai-Dun, The Forgotten Rite, Satyricon Overture, The Overlanders Suite, Et Al. | Hallé Orchestra - John Ireland - John Wilson | 2009 | Album |
| Piano Trios | John Ireland, Gould Piano Trio | 2009 | Album |
| Sextet • Clarinet Trio • Fantasy Sonata • The Holy Boy | John Ireland - Robert Plane • Sophia Rahman • Alice Neary • David Pyatt • The Maggini Quartet | 2009 | Album |
| Great Proms Premieres | Sir William Walton / John Ireland / Guto Pryderi Puw - Nobuko Imai, Kathryn Stott, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales | 2008 | Album |
| The Piano Music | John Ireland - Alan Rowlands | 2008 | Album |
| Bax: Tintagel / Delius: The Walk To The Paradise Garden; A Song Of Summer; Irmelin Prelude; La Calinda; In A Summer Garden / Ireland: A London Overture | Sir John Barbirolli, Arnold Bax, Frederick Delius, John Ireland, The London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra | 2007 | Compil. |
| String Quartets / The Holy Boy | John Ireland - The Maggini Quartet | 2006 | Album |
| English String Miniatures 5 | John Ireland, Francis Chagrin, Percy Fletcher, Paul Lewis, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland | 2006 | Album |
| English Serenade | Gustav Holst - Sir Edward Elgar - Gerald Finzi - Gareth Walters - John Ireland, London Concertante | 2006 | Album |
| Piano Concerto In C Minor Op 17 (Original Version) / Piano Concerto In E Flat Major / Legend | Frederick Delius / John Ireland, Piers Lane, Ulster Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones | 2006 | Album |
| Flying Kites - A Trafford Miscellany | Thomas Pitfield, John Ireland, Martin Ellerby - Richard Baker, John Turner, Keith Swallow, Damien Harron | 2005 | Album |
| English Piano Concerti • Concertos Anglais Pour Piano | Benjamin Britten, Alan Rawsthorne, John Ireland, Gerald Finzi - Jane Coop, CBC Radio Orchestra, Mario Bernardi | 2001 | Album |
| British Composers | John Field, Sir Hamilton Harty, John Ireland, Walter Leigh | 2001 | Compil. |
| English String Miniatures Volume 2 | Sir Edward Elgar, Frank Bridge, Haydn Wood, John Ireland, Frederick Delius, Peter Warlock, Geoffrey Bush, Ralph Vaughan Williams, English Northern Philharmonia, David Lloyd-Jones | 2001 | Album |
| Bach Arrangements | Angela Hewitt, Johann Sebastian Bach Transcriptions By Myra Hess, Wilhelm Kempff, Harriet Cohen, Lord Berners, Herbert Howells, Sir William Walton, John Ireland, Mary Howe, Eugen D'Albert, Harold Bauer | 2001 | Album |
| The Songs Of John Ireland | John Ireland - Lisa Milne · John Mark Ainsley · Christopher Maltman · Graham Johnson | 1999 | Album |
| Piano Works Vol. 2 | John Ireland | 1999 | Album |
| The Two String Quartets | John Ireland, The Holywell Ensemble | 1999 | Album |
| The Complete Music For Violin And Piano | John Ireland, Paul Barritt, Catherine Edwards | 1996 | Album |
| John Ireland Including London Pieces, Three Pastels, Preludes | John Ireland, Desmond Wright | 1995 | Album |
| Chamber Works | John Ireland / Lydia Mordkovitch, Karina Georgian, Ian Brown | 1995 | Compil. |
| A Downland Suite | John Ireland, Richard Hickox, City Of London Sinfonia | 1995 | Album |
| Elgar / Bax / Hadley / Bliss / Holst / Ireland | Sir Edward Elgar / Arnold Bax / Patrick Hadley / Arthur Bliss / Gustav Holst / John Ireland — BBC Symphony Orchestra, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra - Sir Adrian Boult | 1995 | Compil. |
| Music For Violin And Piano | John Ireland | 1993 | Album |
| Piano Concerto A London Overture Mai Dun | John Ireland, Sir John Barbirolli, Janet Baker, Gerald Moore, Colin Horsley, Basil Cameron, Hallé Orchestra, The London Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | 1993 | Album |
| English Songs | John Ireland - Rachel Ann Morgan, Tan Crone | 1992 | Album |
| The English Anthem – Volume 1 | Edward C. Bairstow · Gerald Finzi · Henry Balfour Gardiner · Patrick Hadley · John Ireland · Edward Naylor · John Stainer · Charles Villiers Stanford · Samuel Sebastian Wesley · Charles Wood - St. Paul's Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lucas, John Scott | 1990 | Album |
| A London Symphony | John Ireland, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Edward Elgar / Owain Arwel Hughes, Philharmonia Orchestra | 1989 | Album |
| Sinfonia Concertante / Piano Concerto / Phantasm For Piano And Orchestra | Sir William Walton / John Ireland / Frank Bridge ; Kathryn Stott, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley | 1989 | Album |
| English Music For Strings | Guildhall String Ensemble, Gustav Holst, Frederick Delius, John Ireland, Gerald Finzi, Sir William Walton, Sir Edward Elgar, Peter Warlock | 1988 | Album |
| English Music For Clarinet And Piano | Gervase de Peyer, Gwenneth Pryor - Malcolm Arnold / Joseph Horovitz / John Ireland / Gerald Finzi / Alan Richardson / Paul Harvey | 1987 | Album |
| Piano Concerto / Mai-Dun / Legend | John Ireland - Eric Parkin, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 1986 | Album |
| Violin Concerto / Piano Concerto | Edmund Rubbra, Carl Pini / John Ireland, Geoffrey Tozer, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, David Measham | 1986 | Album |
| A Downland Suite / The Holy Boy / Elegiac Meditation / Suite For String Orchestra | John Ireland / Frank Bridge - English Chamber Orchestra, David Garforth | 1984 | Album |
| His Friends And Pupils | John Ireland | 1983 | Compil. |
| On Wenlock Edge / Suite: The Overlanders / Epic March | Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Ireland - Gerald English, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, David Measham | 1980 | Album |
| John Ireland Songs: Volume Three | John Ireland, Alfreda Hodgson, John Mitchinson, Alan Rowlands | 1979 | Album |
| Music for Strings | John Ireland, Lennox Berkeley, Michael Berkeley, Westminster Cathedral String Orchestra, Colin Mawby | 1979 | Album |
| John Ireland Trios | John Ireland, Yfrah Neaman, Julian Lloyd Webber, Eric Parkin | 1979 | Album |
| John Ireland Trios | John Ireland, Yfrah Neaman, Julian Lloyd Webber, Eric Parkin | 1979 | Album |
| Daniel Adni Plays Piano Music By John Ireland | Daniel Adni, John Ireland | 1979 | Album |
| A Choral Festival | Henry Purcell, Samuel Wesley, Thomas Tallis, Thomas Weelkes, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Tomás Luis De Victoria, Carlo Gesualdo, Claudio Monteverdi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Anton Bruckner, Maurice Duruflé, Gabriel Fauré, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, John Ireland, St. John's College Choir, George Guest | 1978 | Compil. |
| Piano Music - Volume Two | John Ireland, Eric Parkin | 1977 | Album |
| English Brass | Besses O' Th' Barn Band / Ifor James - Gustav Holst | 1976 | Album |
| Songs - Volume Two | John Ireland, Benjamin Luxon, Alan Rowlands | 1975 | Album |
| Songs - Volume One | John Ireland, Benjamin Luxon, Alan Rowlands | 1975 | Album |
| Piano Music-Volume One | John Ireland, Eric Parkin | 1975 | Album |
| Pastorale | Gustav Holst / Ralph Vaughan Williams / John Ireland / Ernest John Moeran / Arnold Bax / Peter Warlock / John McCabe | 1974 | Album |
| Sextet / Cello Sonata / Fantasy-Sonata | John Ireland - Melos Ensemble Of London, André Navarra, Eric Parkin, Gervase de Peyer | 1972 | Album |
| Concertino For Harpsichord And Strings / The Holy Boy / Two English Idylls / Capriol Suite / Lonely Waters / Whythorne's Shadow | Walter Leigh, John Ireland, George Butterworth, Peter Warlock, Ernest John Moeran, Neville Dilkes Conducting English Sinfonia | 1972 | Album |
| Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 | Yfrah Neaman, Eric Parkin, John Ireland | 1972 | Album |
| Symphonic Prelude, Tritons / Two Symphonic Studies / Suite 'The Overlanders' / Scherzo & Cortège (Julius Caesar) | John Ireland, Sir Adrian Boult, The London Philharmonic Orchestra | 1971 | Album |
| These Things Shall Be / Piano Concerto In E Flat Major | John Ireland / John Carol Case : Baritone / Eric Parkin : Piano / The London Philharmonic Choir & The London Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted By Sir Adrian Boult / Chorus Master: Frederick Jackson | 1970 | Album |
| Sonata No. 1 in D Minor / Sonata in G Minor | John Ireland, Alan Loveday, Derek Simpson, Leonard Cassini | 1970 | Album |
| Piano Music Volume 5 | John Ireland, Alan Rowlands | 1970 | Album |
| English Tone Pictures | Sir John Barbirolli • John Ireland / Arnold Bax / Frederick Delius • The London Symphony Orchestra | 1967 | Album |
| Orchestral Music Volume 2 | John Ireland - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Eric Parkin | 1966 | Album |
| Piano Concerto / Trio For Violin, Horn And Piano | John Ireland, Lennox Berkeley - Colin Horsley, Manoug Parikian, Dennis Brain, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Basil Cameron | 1965 | Album |
| The Trios Of John Ireland | John Ireland | 1964 | Album |
| Twentieth Century English Songs | Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, Joan Dickson / Richard Rodney Bennett, Frank Bridge, John Ireland, Priaulx Rainier | 1964 | Album |
| Songs Of John Ireland | John Ireland - John Shirley-Quirk, Eric Parkin | 1964 | Album |
| Twentieth Century Church Music | St. John's College Choir Director George Guest, Edward C. Bairstow, Benjamin Britten, Herbert Howells, John Ireland, Robin Orr, Sir Michael Tippett, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir William Walton | 1963 | Album |
| In Memoriam | John Ireland - Tessa Robbins, Thea King, Alan Rowlands | 1962 | Album |
| Sonata #1 For Violin And Piano, Sonata For Cello And Piano | John Ireland | 1962 | Album |
| Sarnia - An Island Sequence | John Ireland, Alan Rowlands | 1960 | Album |
| John Ireland | John Ireland | 1960 | Album |
| Capriccio / Piano Concerto In E-Flat | Igor Stravinsky, John Ireland, Colin Horsley, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Basil Cameron | 1959 | Album |
| A London Symphony • A London Overture | Ralph Vaughan Williams • John Ireland, Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli | Compil. | |
| Orchestral Works | John Ireland | Compil. | |
| Orchestral Music Volume I | John Ireland, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult | Album |
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