Grainger: Famous Folk-Settings / Montgomery, Bournemouth Sinfonietta

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
September 1, 1991
Format
Staff Pick
Staff Pick
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GRAINGER, PERCY
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    • PERFORMER
      Welsh, Martin, Montgomery
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 01, 1991
    • UPC
      095115654224
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 6542
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. II. Rustic Dance

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta

      Performer: Philip Martin, Moray Welsh

      Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery

    2. IV. Eastern Intermezzo

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta

      Performer: Philip Martin, Moray Welsh

      Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery

    3. Blithe Bells (ramble on J.S. Bach's Sheep May Graze in Safety When a Goodly Shepherd Watches O'er Them)

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta

      Performer: Philip Martin, Moray Welsh

      Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery

    4. Spoon River

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta

      Performer: Philip Martin, Moray Welsh

      Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery

    5. My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta

      Performer: Philip Martin, Moray Welsh

      Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery

    6. Green Bushes

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta

      Performer: Philip Martin, Moray Welsh

      Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery

    7. Country Gardens

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta

      Performer: Philip Martin, Moray Welsh

      Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery

    8. Mock Morris

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta

      Performer: Philip Martin, Moray Welsh

      Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery

    9. Youthful Rapture

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Performer: Moray Welsh

    10. Shepherd's Hey

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta

      Performer: Philip Martin, Moray Welsh

      Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery

    11. Walking Tune

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta

      Performer: Philip Martin, Moray Welsh

      Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery

    12. Molly on the Shore

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta

      Performer: Philip Martin, Moray Welsh

      Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery

    13. Handel in the Strand

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Sinfonietta

      Performer: Philip Martin, Moray Welsh

      Conductor: Kenneth Montgomery


"...a good mixture of Grainger's compositions, recompositions and arrangements of folk-melodies is presented. Most rewarding, perhaps, are those in which strong folk material is made the basis of works that go far beyond the score of the initial tune.
A fine instance is Green Bushes. Butterworth used a variant of this in his The Banks of Green Willow, but with Grainger it serves quite different ends in a well-organized passacaglia. The two movements from his Youthful Suite are remarkable for a teenager without formal training in composition, although it is inevitably the later scores which show the inventiveness of his orchestral writing. Blithe Bells, which takes ''Sheep may safey graze'' as its starting point, is gently iconoclastic, My Robin is beautiful in an individual way and here played with the sort of ''drowsy lilt'' Grainger indicated. And there is excellent work from Moray Welsh in the quietly rhapsodic Youthful Rapture."

-- GRAMOPHONE