Ireland’s piano music is as vital a contribution to the British tradition as is that of Fauré to the French; and the work of both composers (wholly personal, yet at the same time completely typical of their own countries) is an enrichment of the heritage of European music.

This volume brings together a number of original works for piano by John Ireland either previously unpublished or long unavailable, and all the transcriptions for piano he himself made of works for other solo or concerted i...