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Ernest John Moeran - Three Piano Pieces (1919)

Composer: Ernest John Moeran (31 December 1894 -- 1 December 1950) Performer: Iris Loveridge Year of recording: 1958-1959 Three Piano Pieces, written in 1919. 00:00 - I. Lake Island (Lento) 04:41 - II. Autumn Woods (Moderato) 08:23 - III. At a Horse Fair (Vivace) These pieces are Moeran's first published compositions; they also mark the start of a lifelong love affair with Ireland, its scenery and its people. Early in 1918 he had come to Boyle in County Roscommon to recuperate from his war injuries. His first response to the landscape presents us with an impression not of reality but of other-worldliness. The Lake Island evokes Yeats's "land of fairie", unfolding lento over the calm and peaceful water. As a student, Moeran had heard Bax's In the Faery Hills. Autumn Woods owes something to that composer's tone poem November Woods, composed only the year before (1917). By contrast, At a Horse Fair is a lively depiction of a fair that Moeran had attended in Roscommon. For the first time we hear the offbeat rhythms which were to colour so many of his later works. This last piece is dedicated "to Archy Rosenthal."