Since thou, O Fondest and Truest
The Joy of Earth
Three Songs by Walter de la Mare
A Mountain Woman Asks for Quiet that her Child May Sleep
Looking Back
Himself and his Fiddle
Have You Heard News of My Boy Jack?
Roses
A Soft Day, Thank God!
Eternity
Sleep Song
All Souls' Flower (A Chtistmas Carol)
Five Sacred Folksongs of Sicily
A Song of Shadows
A Song of Enchantment
The Bringer of Dreams
Longing
Dust
The Stolen Child
Blessing
They Went Forth
Two Christmas Songs
The Last Invocation

n lifelong seclusion in rural County Wicklow, Ina Boyle created a legacy of song – tender, often melancholy, illuminated by an exquisite sense for harmony. ‘I think it is most courageous of you to go on with such little recognition,’ wrote Vaughan Williams to his pupil. ‘The only thing to say is that it does come finally.’

Amid the 2020 pandemic, Iain Burnside gathered three superb Irish singers at London’s Wigmore Hall. Recorded in less than five hours, the resulting 80 minutes of music unveil a composer who is one of Ireland’s ‘invisible heroines’.

Half a century after Boyle’s death, is Vaughan Williams’s prediction at last coming true?

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Recording: 29 October 2020, Wigmore Hall, London