Classical Review: Classical Thursday Recital Series

St Columba’s, Ennis

As pure song curls through the murmurings of the wondrous strings, prattling women, merry ploughboys, lovestruck swains and wistul old men were just some of the voices vividly evoked by baritone Seán Boylan at the Classical Thursday song recital in the neo Gothic interior of St Columba’s Church in Ennis.

Boylan — son of former Meath football manager Seán snr — is one of this year’s crop of graduates from the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Although he began his studies on piano and was busy building up a reputation as an organist, his recital in Ennis with pianist Tham Horng Kent showed not only that he has a fine baritone voice but also an engaging, polished platform presence.