Amberley Wild Brooks
bb sold BLOMFIELD’S piano group from 1YA recently was pleasant music of a kind that stirs the imagination without unduly taxing the more logical processes of thought. It is interesting to notice how sensitively written "impressionistic" music can re-create the atmosphere of a scene even if the listener is unacquainted with the source of inspiration. There is John Ireland’s "Amberley Wild Brooks," for instance. I’ve never been to Amberley and I wondered, as John Drinkwater did about that other lazy-named place, Mamble, "whether people seem, who breed and brew along there, as lazy as the name." How wild are Amberley’s brooks? Do they stumble over rocks, hidden in the bracken of a desolate moor, or is this as pleasant and pastoral a country as the name suggests? I do not know; I shall probably never know. No matter; the picture that arises from John Ireland’s music is as clear, as picturesque if you like, as any painting, untempered by judgment, unhampered by associations. Jean Blomfield’s playing, by the way, was sympathetically imaginative, her fingers always the servants of feeling.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 13
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182Amberley Wild Brooks New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 13
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