Grainger: The Warriors / Geoffrey Simon, Melbourne Symphony

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
November 6, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GRAINGER, PERCY
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Simon
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 06, 2020
    • UPC
      635212216422
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD2164
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. The Warriors

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Geoffrey Simon

    2. Irish Tune from County Derry (version for orchestra)

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Geoffrey Simon

    3. I. The Power of Love

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Geoffrey Simon

    4. II. Lord Peter's Stable-boy

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Geoffrey Simon

    5. III. The Nightingale and The Two Sisters

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Geoffrey Simon

    6. IV. Jutish Medley

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Geoffrey Simon

    7. Hill-Song No. 1 (version for orchestra)

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Geoffrey Simon

    8. Beautiful Fresh Flower (arr. P. Sculthorpe for orchestra)

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Geoffrey Simon

    9. Colleen Dhas (The Valley Lay Smiling)

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Geoffrey Simon

    10. Hill-Song No. 2 (version for orchestra)

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Geoffrey Simon


Percy Grainger was one of the great “originals” of 20th century music. Australian-born, he studied with his mother while a boy and later went to Germany where his career as a virtuoso pianist began. As a composer he was largely self-taught and strongly influenced by the folk music of Great Britain and Ireland, Many of his “miniatures”-such titles as Country Gardens, Handel in the Strand and Molly on the Shore-established his composing credentials very early on. But Grainger was also an inveterate innovator and experimenter in music, and the kaleidoscopic aspects of his compositional creativity-evident in highly imaginative works often with unprecedented rhythms, harmonies and scoring-are fully represented in the programme heard on this recording. The music was digitally recorded with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in February 1989, at the acoustically excellent South Melbourne Town Hall.