The Grainger Edition Volume 15: Orchestral Works 3

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Here's a recipe guaranteed to delight Grainger acolytes and inquisitive newcomers alike: a liberal sprinkling of old friends, three of the composer's most ambitious creations and no less than... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st Aug 2000
Catalogue No: CHAN9839
Label: Chandos
Series: Grainger Edition
Length: 70 minutes

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Grainger: Green Bushes, BFMS 12

Work length7:27

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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Scott

Grainger: Hill-Song No. 2

Work length4:56

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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Scott

Grainger: The Merry King, BFMS 39

Work length4:13

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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Scott, Paul Janes

Grainger: Youthul Suite: IV. Eastern Intermezzo

Work length2:03

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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Scott

Grainger: Colonial Song: Colonial song

Work length6:01

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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Scott

Grainger: Spoon River, AFMS 2

Work length4:21

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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Scott

Grainger: Lord Maxwell's Goodnight, BFMS 14

Work length3:25

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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Scott

Grainger: The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart: Thanksgiving Song

Work length14:26

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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Scott

Grainger: The Immovable Do (The Cyphering C)

Work length4:47

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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Scott

Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry, BFMS 29, "Danny Boy"

Work length5:59

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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Scott

Grainger: Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon, BFMS 31

Work length2:43

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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Scott

Grainger: English Dance No. 1

Work length9:59

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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic, Jonathan Scott

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2010

Here's a recipe guaranteed to delight Grainger acolytes and inquisitive newcomers alike: a liberal sprinkling of old friends, three of the composer's most ambitious creations and no less than four world premiere recordings. Falling into the last two categories comes the giddily inventive English Dance No 1. Bearing the inscription 'For Cyril Scott with long love', this is the work of which Gabriel Fauré exclaimed: 'It's as if the total population were a-dancing.' Hickox and company have already set down this remarkable piece in its final scoring from 1924- 9; the present orchestration dates from 1906-9 and wears an even more exuberantly colourful demeanour than its successor.
Originally conceived in 1907 for 24 winds (in which guise it can be heard on Chandos), the bracing, somewhat Delian Hill Song No 2 is played in its final incarnation from 1948 for symphony orchestra. That same year, Grainger accepted a commission for an even more ambitious wind-band creation, The Power of Rome andthe Christian Heart, based on ideas from as far back as 1918 and given here with the optional string parts. It's an imposing, oddly moreish affair, whose second half borrows material from the 1943 orchestral essay Dreamery (Chandos) as well as the first movement ('The Power of Love') of the marvellous Danish Folksong Suite. From a clutch of indelible favourites, to be singled out are the well-upholstered 1919 orchestration of the supremely touching Colonial Song, GreenBushes and that memorably tangy 1920 harmonisation of the Irish Tune from County Derry.
Hickox secures a set of performances that are simply past praise in their combination of stylish swagger and heartwarming commitment to the cause. Wonderful Chandos sound, too, irrepressibly vivid. Terrific stuff!

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