Percy Grainger: Schumann, Strauss & Tchaikovsky

1. Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Composed by Robert Schumann
with Percy Grainger

2. Symphonic Etudes ("Etudes in the form of variations") for piano (2 versions), Op. 13
Composed by Robert Schumann
with Percy Grainger

3. Romances (3) for piano, Op. 28 Romance, Op 28 No 02
Composed by Robert Schumann
with Percy Grainger

4. Romeo and Juliet, fantasy-overture for orchestra in B minor (3 versions)
Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
with Percy Grainger , Ralph Leopold

5. Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 28
Composed by Richard Strauss
with Percy Grainger , Ralph Leopold

6. Symphonic Dance
Composed by Cyril Scott
with Cyril Scott , Percy Grainger

Tracks:

Handel In The Strand
Bridal Lullaby
English Waltz
Mock Morris
To A Nordic Princess
In A Nutshell-Ste: I. Arrival Platform Humlet
In A Nutshell-Ste: II. Gay But Wistful
In A Nutshell-Ste: III. Pastoral
In A Nutshell-Ste: IV. 'The Gum-Suckers' March
Peace
Saxon Twi-Play
Andante Con Moto
Children's March
The Immovable Do
Sailor's Song
Colonial Song
Walking Tune
Harvest Hymn
In Dahomey

Tracks:

b flat Pno Con (Opening)
Cradle-Song
Love Walked In
Second Pno Con (3rd Movt)
Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
Nimrod
Ramble On The Last Love-Duet
Chinese Melody-Beautiful Fresh Flower
Paraphrase On The Flower Waltz
Lullaby From 'Tribute To Foster'
American Song-The Rag-Time Girl
'Blithe Bells'
Fugue In a
The Man I Love

Tracks:

Country Gardens
The Merry King
Molly On The Shore
Irish Tune From County Derry
Knight And Shepard's Daughter
The Nightingale And The Two Sisters
Jutish Medley
Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
The Rival Brothers
Near Woodstock Town
Will Ye Gang To The Hielands, Lizzie Lindsay
The Brisk Young Sailor
One More Day My John (Easy Version)
Rimmer And Goldcastle
Spoon River
The Widow's Party
The Hunter In His Career
My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone
Died For Love
Scotch Strathspey
One More Day My John (Complex Version)
Bristol Town
Hard-Hearted Barb'ra Helen
Mo Ninghean Dhu
Lisbon (Dublin Bay)
Stalt Vesselil
O Gin I Were Where Gowrie Rins
Shepard's Hey

Tracks:

Four Irish Dances: I. A March-Jig
Four Irish Dances: II. A Slow Dance
Four Irish Dances: III. The Leprechaun's Dance
Four Irish Dances: IV. A Reel
Nell
Apres Un Reve
Pno Con, First Movt
Tiger-Tiger
Air And Dance
Hornpipe
Toccata And Fugue in d
Lullaby From 'Tribute To Foster' (Easy Grainger)
Angelus Ad Virginem
Klavierstuck in E
Eastern Intermezzo
The Bigelow March
Pno Con, First Movt
At Twilight
Klavierstuck in a
Klavierstuck in B Flat
Klavierstuck in D

Tracks:

Children's March: 'Over The Hills And Far Away'
Up-Country Song (Colonial Song)
English Dance
Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon
'Spoon River'-American Folk Dance
Train Music
Zanzibar Boat-Song
Paganini Varations, No.12
Green Bushes-Passacaglia On An English Folksong
William Byrd's Air And Variations For The Virginals 'The Carman's Whistle'
'A Dance Rhapsody'
Girl Crazy: Embraceable You
The Warriors-Music To An Imaginary Ballet

Customer Reviews:

Every last note..........2006-06-14

A super budget 5 CD collection of all of Grainger's Piano music.
Every last note!
The shipping alone would be $17.00+ for the 5 individual Cds.
Englishman Martin Jones plays these as if he wrote them. He is thoroughly inside this music.
I think his best work to date.
He is joined on CD #5 by Richard Mcmahon and Phillip Martin. Where they rollick in various combos and trios on 1, 2 and 3 pianos. This is exhilerating. Especially on an truly uplifting version of Green Bushes.
The entire set is strongly idiomatic and given a clear, crisp, warm and spacious recording. FIRST CLASS sound.
There are too many highlights to single out, but the In A Nutshell Suite and Green Bushes are especially GOOD!
There is not a bad note or "vibe" on any of these CDs.
Highly recommended for Granger fans and fans of English Piano Music.

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Crawl to the Music

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Tracks:

Shake, Rattle and Crawl
Every Baby's Doing It
Crawling Around the World
Olaby!
Up and at 'Em
Poetry in Motion
From Here to Eternity
Movers and Shakers (Rustle of Spring, Op. 32 No. 3)
Special Delivery
License to Crawl [Ah, Vous Dirais-Je Maman]
Happy Baby
Stroll in the Garden

Percy Grainger: Schumann, Strauss & Tchaikovsky

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Percy Grainger: Schumann, Strauss & Tchaikovsky

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Forest Dreams

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Tracks:

Work(s): Valse [Unspecified Ave Mari]
Soleil
Manola
Irish Tune County Derry
Concerto for Harp in C Major
Song of Spring, Op. 67/6
Malaguena
Sonata in C, Allegro, K. 545
Piano Concerto in G Major: Adagio Assai
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Waltz in D Flat, Op. 64/1
Work(s): Bourr[Unspecified Ave Mari]
Fur Elise in a Minor
Ave Maria in C Major

Tracks:

Tales from the Vienna Woods
Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
About Foreign Lands & People, Op. 15/1
Pavane for a Dead Princess
Sonata in A, K. 331: 1st Movement
Capriccio in B, Op. 76/2
Serenade for Strings: Waltz
Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 3/11: Allegro
Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 3/11: Largo E Spiccato
Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 3/11: Allegro
Arabesques (2) For Piano, L 66
Valse, Poeme

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A Rich Tapestry of Shakespearean Song
Very good collection of Incidental Music written for Shakespeare
Move over Dame Judy Dench
hard work
For Lieder fans

Shakespeare's Kingdom

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Tracks:

D 891: An Silvia
Op. 107 No. 1: Herzeleid
Ophelia Lieder: Wie Erkenn' Ich Dein Treulieb?
Ophelia Lieder: Op. 67 No. 1: Wie Erkenn' Ich Mein Treulieb Vor Andern Nun?
Ophelia Lieder: Sein Leichenhemd Weiss Wie Schnee
Ophelia Lieder: Op. 67 No. 2: Guten Morgen, 'S Ist Sankt Valentinstag
Ophelia Lieder: Auf Morgen Ist Sankt Valentins Tag
Ophelia Lieder: Op. 67 No. 3: Sie Trugen Ihn Auf Der Bahre Bloss
Ophelia Lieder: Und Kommt Er Nicht Mehr Zuruck?
Op. 18 No. 2: La Mort D'Ophelie
La Mort D'Ophelie
Lady Macbeth - A Scena
Shakespeare's Kingdom
O Mistress Mine
Willow, Willow, Willow
Willow, Willow
Fancie
Fancy
Under The Greenwood Tree
Op. 22 No. 1: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
It Was A Lover And His Lass

Customer Reviews:

A Rich Tapestry of Shakespearean Song.......2006-11-26

This has long been one of my favorite thematic recital disks. Despite the mix of languages, composers, and musical eras, the program doesn't come off as a hodge podge. Shakespeare's humanity provides cohesion enough, abetted by thoughtful selections and faultless performances.

Sarah Walker is one of the most communicative singers around -- but her voice is hard to capture on disk: Felicity Lott and (believe it or not) Renée Fleming are other artists that the microphone doesn't seem to coddle. But this disk does full justice to Sarah Walker's warm and somewhat matronly sound. Her performances here are among my very favorite recordings of each song.

The program is half in German and French (all but the first on the subject of Ophelia), half in English. In several instances we get to hear settings of the same or similar text back to back. The contrasts are utterly fascinating, never smacking of academic tedium.

Mme Walker's "An Sylvia" is one of my top three interpretations of this delightful song, up there with Ameling on Philips and Ainsley on Hyperion. The heartbreaking Schumann setting "Herzeleid," is a minor masterpiece, a seldom heard song from late in the composer's career. It introduces the Ophelia sequence. Accompanist Graham Johnson ingeniously programmed the angular Ophelia-Lieder by Strauss between fragments of the same texts by Brahms that are more archaic in style. Berlioz's melting version of "La Mort d'Ophelia" (a translation of Gertrude's report) is followed by a rare setting of the same verses by Saint-Saens that is a more standard, third-person ballad account. It doesn't equal the immortal lament that Berlioz fashioned, but it's certainly of interest and gets a vivid performance here.

The Lady Macbeth scena, composed by one Joseph Horovitz, is another rarety, and deserving of its centerpiece position in this recital. It's a convincing example of modern declamatory style, the ideal mode of expression for this antiheroine. The recital concludes with a group by well-known English song composers: Elgar, Parry, Grainger, etc. Not a nit to pick here, every song is a gem. We get two haunting versions of "Willow, Willow" and two beguiling versions of "Fancy" (Britten and, of all people, Poulenc!). I especially loved Geofrey Bush's setting of "It was a Lover and His Lass" -- a rousing, syncopated send-off.

In short, this recital is utterly absorbing from beginning to end. I recommend it heartily.

Very good collection of Incidental Music written for Shakespeare.......2005-12-09

'Shakespeare's Kingdom' is NOT another collection of attempts to recreate what music actually played at the Globe Theatre may have actually sounded like. Rather, it is a collection of short musical pieces written largely by European composers to passages from Shakespeare's plays.

The most famous contributors are Shubert, Shumann, Brahms, Richard Strauss, Berlioz, Grainger, and Brittin. Obvious by its absence is any part of Mendelsohn's major musical works done for the performance of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. This is no great loss, as there are numerous good performances of this work.

I give this but four stars not because the works are not sufficiently stellar, but becuase this recording is more of a sampler which will do much to interest you in other works by these composers, but the works themselves do not really hang together very well one with the other. The pieces are written in both English and German and come from a wide variety of Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies.

This is a great Hyperion quality recording if you can find it cheap.

Move over Dame Judy Dench.......2002-05-28

If you love Shakespeare, and / or Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz and R. Strauss, you need to have this superb album in your collection. Walker is the most gratifying performer in opera and lieder, for beauty of voice (ravishing, audible silk); technique (perfection), intelligence (never-failing); phrasing (absolutely unsurpassed); and interpretation -- Walker does not merely "sell" a song, or act convincingly, she etches her performance on your soul. Just listen to her interpretation of the excerpts from MacBeth, set to music by Joseph Horovitz: Walker is a candidate for best Lady MacBeth. One wonders what she would do with the part as straight drama. If that isn't enough, she caresses the Schumann and the Berlioz, nails the Brahms (no accompaniment -- totally exposed voice), and slinks away with the tango "Under the Greenwood Tree." And if you think this album is great, wait until you hear her Schubert; Blah, blah, blah; and Julius Caesar (there is no other Cornelia but Walker.)

hard work.......2002-05-24

I bought this CD for one reason only: Richard Strauss' Ophelia's songs. 3 songs out of the whole CD that are wonderful by themselves, and very rare to find. Sarah Walker has a very good voice that gives Ophelia's maddness a tragic and touching colour.

Allas!...
This is a theme CD, and as such, they thought more of the concept and less of the listeners. Ophelia's cycle is made of 3 songs. we were unlucky enough to have another version to that song cycle - by Brahms. For some bizzare reason, the producers of this CD decided to brake the cycles. you hear one song of Strauss, and then one of Brahms etc'.
That's outragious, and dumb.
Still, if you can program your stereo, it's worth the buy just for that magical cycle. Truely one of a kind.

For Lieder fans.......1999-11-24

Here are a handful of songs from many different composers, while all texts are selected from Shakespeare's work. Most of them are well enough, although some are very rare and not outstanding, not in a standard repertoire. For example, this CD contains as well the well-known "Was ist Sylvia" by Schubert as "Willow, Willow" by Grainger (a truely wonderful song). And the result is a many-different-style CD. Walker and Johnson's performace are pretty well.For me, "Sylvia" is the most convincing interpretion among all other versioons. Walker's tone are dark and tragic, fits almost the songs here(I like especially the Orphelia suite by Brahms and R.Strauss). It can be more shiny in some obscure songs. The recording is a bit hollow.

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