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Grainger: Famous Folk-Settings / Montgomery, Bournemouth Sinfonietta
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Grainger: Famous Folk-Settings / Montgomery, Bournemouth Sinfonietta

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Composer
GRAINGER, PERCY
Artist
Welsh, Martin, Montgomery
Format
CD
Label
Chandos
Released
Sep 01, 1991
Catalog #
CHAN 6542
UPC
095115654224

About

"...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

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 II. Rustic Dance 03:26
    Track
    1
    Title
    II. Rustic Dance
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Philip Martin, Moray Welsh
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Kenneth Montgomery
  2. 2 IV. Eastern Intermezzo 01:50
    Track
    2
    Title
    IV. Eastern Intermezzo
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Philip Martin, Moray Welsh
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Kenneth Montgomery
  3. 3 Blithe Bells (ramble on J.S. Bach's Sheep May Graze in Safety When a Goodly Shepherd Watches O'er Them) 03:23
    Track
    3
    Title
    Blithe Bells (ramble on J.S. Bach's Sheep May Graze in Safety When a Goodly Shepherd Watches O'er Them)
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Philip Martin, Moray Welsh
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Kenneth Montgomery
  4. 4 Spoon River 04:53
    Track
    4
    Title
    Spoon River
    Duration
    04:53
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Philip Martin, Moray Welsh
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Kenneth Montgomery
  5. 5 My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone 05:53
    Track
    5
    Title
    My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Philip Martin, Moray Welsh
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Kenneth Montgomery
  6. 6 Green Bushes 08:40
    Track
    6
    Title
    Green Bushes
    Duration
    08:40
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Philip Martin, Moray Welsh
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Kenneth Montgomery
  7. 7 Country Gardens 02:18
    Track
    7
    Title
    Country Gardens
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Philip Martin, Moray Welsh
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Kenneth Montgomery
  8. 8 Mock Morris 03:29
    Track
    8
    Title
    Mock Morris
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Philip Martin, Moray Welsh
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Kenneth Montgomery
  9. 9 Youthful Rapture 06:01
    Track
    9
    Title
    Youthful Rapture
    Duration
    06:01
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Moray Welsh
  10. 10 Shepherd's Hey 02:12
    Track
    10
    Title
    Shepherd's Hey
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Philip Martin, Moray Welsh
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Kenneth Montgomery
  11. 11 Walking Tune 03:30
    Track
    11
    Title
    Walking Tune
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Philip Martin, Moray Welsh
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Kenneth Montgomery
  12. 12 Molly on the Shore 03:50
    Track
    12
    Title
    Molly on the Shore
    Duration
    03:50
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Philip Martin, Moray Welsh
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Kenneth Montgomery
  13. 13 Handel in the Strand 04:45
    Track
    13
    Title
    Handel in the Strand
    Duration
    04:45
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Philip Martin, Moray Welsh
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Kenneth Montgomery