Grainger - Folk Music
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Label: Avie
Cat No: AV2372
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 7th April 2017
Contents
Works
Bold William TaylorCountry Gardens
Died for Love
Early one morning
Hard-Hearted Barb'ra (H)Ellen
Irish Tune from County Derry
Knight and Shepherd's Daughter
Lord Maxwell's Goodnight
My Robin is to the Greenwood gone
One more Day, My John
Six Dukes went a-Fishin'
The Power of Love
The Pretty Maid milkin' her Cow
The Sprig of Thyme
The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
The Twa Corbies
Walking Tune
Willow Willow
Artists
Claire Booth (soprano)Christopher Glynn (piano)
Works
Bold William TaylorCountry Gardens
Died for Love
Early one morning
Hard-Hearted Barb'ra (H)Ellen
Irish Tune from County Derry
Knight and Shepherd's Daughter
Lord Maxwell's Goodnight
My Robin is to the Greenwood gone
One more Day, My John
Six Dukes went a-Fishin'
The Power of Love
The Pretty Maid milkin' her Cow
The Sprig of Thyme
The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
The Twa Corbies
Walking Tune
Willow Willow
Artists
Claire Booth (soprano)Christopher Glynn (piano)
About
Percy Grainger was an extraordinary human being and musician - a precocious pianist, colourful composer and world traveller, a peculiarly passionate and emotive eccentric whose fertile mind produced an expansive oeuvre of original and inventive works. Above all Grainger is best known for his most enduring musical endeavour, his exploration and dissemination of folk music. With this release, soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn, who have spent decades delving into Grainger's folk music output, document their fascination with the multifaceted firebrand, and bring his alluring music to a wider audience.
Grainger's success resulted in multiple versions of his folk song settings, for orchestra, wind band, chamber ensemble and choir. But it's perhaps his versions for voice and piano that are the most characteristic, bringing out Grainger's own highly individual style at the keyboard. Claire's and Christopher's survey, one of the most comprehensive available on the market today, offers a variety of transcriptions of songs found in collections from the British Isles as well as discoveries Grainger heard as he roamed throughout the field. The album concludes with Grainger's most celebrated piece, English Country Gardens, in which Claire makes a cameo appearance on piano, joining Christopher in a rousing duet.
"The exemplary soprano soloist, handling the slippery vocal lines as if there was nothing remotely challenging about them" - The Guardian
"At Carnegie Hall pianist Christopher Glynn was an exemplary partner, by turns impossibly delicate, colourfully nimble and thunderously firm." - Opera News
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