Robert Irvine: Songs and Lullabies

Inspired by the plight of disadvantaged and mistreated children around the world, Delphian artist Robert Irvine has commissioned 18 new pieces for solo cello. As a musician who works at the heart of the English and Scottish scenes, he is able to draw on an impressive roster of friends and colleagues that includes some of the UK’s leading composers. Each of them has contributed a short solo piece, drawing out the cello’s most lyrical aspects, while Irvine’s own startling alertness to the finest expressive nuance further enhances this unique recording project.

1. Edward McGuire, Elegiac Lullaby

2. Roland Roberts, Elegy for the Children of War

3. Sally Beamish, Miranda Dreaming

4. Duncan Strachan, Zarabanda

5. Jane Stanley, Winter Song

6. William Sweeney, Caolas

7. David Wilde, Invocation and Waltz

8. Tom Irvine, Safety

9. John De Simone, Misremembrance

10. Mark-Anthony Turnage, Amelie’s Tango

11. Eleanor Alberga, Ride Through

12. Gabriel Jackson, Untitled (for Robert Irvine)

13. Jacqueline Shave, Tili Tili Bom

14. Rory Boyle, Baloue

15. James MacMillan, Knock Knock

16. Robert Irvine, Imagined Child

17. Piers Hellawell, A Frieze and a Litany

18. Thomas Butler, Lament

19. Brian Irvine, Elegy (for Peter)