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Grainger: The Warriors / Geoffrey Simon, Melbourne Symphony
Signum Classics

Grainger: The Warriors / Geoffrey Simon, Melbourne Symphony

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Details

Composer
GRAINGER, PERCY
Artist
Simon
Format
CD
Label
Signum Classics
Released
Nov 06, 2020
Catalog #
SIGCD2164
UPC
635212216422

About

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.

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 The Warriors 17:55
    Track
    1
    Title
    The Warriors
    Duration
    17:55
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Ensemble
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Geoffrey Simon
  2. 2 Irish Tune from County Derry (version for orchestra) 03:55
    Track
    2
    Title
    Irish Tune from County Derry (version for orchestra)
    Duration
    03:55
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Ensemble
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Geoffrey Simon
  3. 3 I. The Power of Love 03:32
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. The Power of Love
    Duration
    03:32
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Ensemble
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Geoffrey Simon
  4. 4 II. Lord Peter's Stable-boy 02:49
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Lord Peter's Stable-boy
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Ensemble
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Geoffrey Simon
  5. 5 III. The Nightingale and The Two Sisters 04:40
    Track
    5
    Title
    III. The Nightingale and The Two Sisters
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Ensemble
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Geoffrey Simon
  6. 6 IV. Jutish Medley 07:49
    Track
    6
    Title
    IV. Jutish Medley
    Duration
    07:49
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Ensemble
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Geoffrey Simon
  7. 7 Hill-Song No. 1 (version for orchestra) 13:10
    Track
    7
    Title
    Hill-Song No. 1 (version for orchestra)
    Duration
    13:10
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Ensemble
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Geoffrey Simon
  8. 8 Beautiful Fresh Flower (arr. P. Sculthorpe for orchestra) 02:34
    Track
    8
    Title
    Beautiful Fresh Flower (arr. P. Sculthorpe for orchestra)
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Ensemble
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Geoffrey Simon
  9. 9 Colleen Dhas (The Valley Lay Smiling) 03:05
    Track
    9
    Title
    Colleen Dhas (The Valley Lay Smiling)
    Duration
    03:05
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Ensemble
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Geoffrey Simon
  10. 10 Hill-Song No. 2 (version for orchestra) 04:47
    Track
    10
    Title
    Hill-Song No. 2 (version for orchestra)
    Duration
    04:47
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Ensemble
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Geoffrey Simon