The Grainger Edition Volume 12: Songs for Mezzo-soprano

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Again Grainger amazes, amuses, arouses, intrigues. These 'Songs for mezzo' originate in Britain (with an excellent sequence of Scottish songs), Jutland and Australia. Some are folksongs collected... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st May 1999
Catalogue No: CHAN9730
Label: Chandos
Series: Grainger Edition
Length: 73 minutes

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Grainger: Daffyd Y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock)

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: Died For Love, BFMS 10: Died for Love, BFMS 10

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: The Sprig of Thyme, BFMS 24

Work length2:13

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: Willow, Willow, BFMS Unnum

Work length2:13

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: Near Woodstock Town, BFMS Unnum

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: Early One Morning, BFMS Unnum

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: In Bristol Town, BFMS Unnum (Arr. for Solo Voice and Guitar)

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Della Jones, George Black

Grainger: Four Settings from Songs of the North

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

V. Weaving Song

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II. This Is No Plaid

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IV. Skye Boat Song

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III. Turn Ye to Me

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Grainger: The Bridegroom Grat

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: The Land O' the Leal

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: Proud Vesselil, DFMS Unnum

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: Under A Bridge, DFMS 12

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites, Stephen Varcoe

Grainger: Hubby and Wifey, DFMS 5

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites, Stephen Varcoe

Grainger: The Lonely Desert-Man Sees the Tents of the Happy Tribes, RMTB 9

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites, Mark Padmore, Stephen Varcoe

Grainger: Colonial Song, Sentimental No. 1

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites, Mark Padmore

Grainger: Kipling - The Only Son, KS 21

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites, Mark Padmore, Stephen Varcoe

Grainger: The Love Song of Har Dyal, KS 11

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites, Mark Padmore, Stephen Varcoe

Grainger: A Song of Autumn

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: Five settings of Ella Grainger

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

To Echo

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Honey Pot Bee

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Farewell to an Atoll

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Crying For the Moon

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Love at First Sight

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Grainger: O Glorious, Golden Era

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: Little Ole with his Umbrella

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: Variations on Handel's 'The Harmonious Blacksmith'

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

Grainger: Harvest Hymn

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Della Jones, John Lavender

Grainger: Afterword

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Della Jones, Penelope Thwaites

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2010

Again Grainger amazes, amuses, arouses, intrigues. These 'Songs for mezzo' originate in Britain (with an excellent sequence of Scottish songs), Jutland and Australia. Some are folksongs collected in the early years of the century; two have words by Kipling, five by Ella, Grainger's wife, and some have no words at all.
The latter are fortifying antidotes to those textmerchants who think that song is essentially 'about' the communication of words, whereas everybody knows that you sing (la-la, dee-dee, as in these of Grainger) because a tune has taken your fancy and singing it makes you feel better.
It's really Della Jones's record, or hers and that of the admirable Penelope Thwaites. But the menfolk appear occasionally and always to effect. Mark Padmore is a resourceful tenor with hints here that he has in reserve a vibrant, rather Italianate body of tone. Jones hereself is a natural for Grainger: she has the spirit to match, and, like him, a certain ambiguity in her forthrightness, so that at times we're not quite sure what's serious and what's a bit of fun. The Colonial Song ('Sentimental No 1') is unashamedly nostalgic, but with an element of send-up too: in the piano solos especially a joyful passage of inspired improvisation that's both a joke and 'for real'.
Also for real is the prime quality of this disc, with 15 tracks 'premiere recordings' and 14 'premiere recordings in this version'.

This is a glorious disc.

Offer,The Grainger Edition Volume 12

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