Percy Aldridge Grainger

Die Rosenkavalier-Fantasie über das berühmte Schluss-Duett der Oper stammt aus der Feder des 1882 in Melbourne geborenen Percy Aldridge Grainger. 1895 kam Grainger als Wunderkind nach Europa, gastiert...

The Morris dance has been performed throughout the English countryside since the time of William Shakespeare. Grainger was so taken by the form that he wrote his own melodies for the dance to great su...

The Morris dance has been performed throughout the English countryside since the time of William Shakespeare. Grainger was so taken by the form that he wrote his own melodies for the dance to great su...

Based on the English folkong The Duke of Marlborough. The first thime heard (behind platform) it typifies memories of long-past wars - vague, far-off, poetic. The second time (on platform) it typifies...

A trade mark of the Australian composer Percy Grainger are his elaborate and artistic, sometimes 'groovy' folk-song arrangements. A well-known example is 'Shepherd's Hey', a traditional English tune t...

In Percy Aldridge Graingers Stück 'Colonial Song' wird ein berühmtes Volkslied opulent in Szene gesetzt. Eine große, weit geschwungene Melodie erhebt sich zum Himmel und reisst den Zuhörer mit. Immer...

This volume contains some of Grainger's most popular works, arranged and sometimes extended for organ, available now for the first time.

Based on the English folkong The Duke of Marlborough. The first thime heard (behind platform) it typifies memories of long-past wars - vague, far-off, poetic. The second time (on platform) it typifies...

A trade mark of the Australian composer Percy Grainger are his elaborate and artistic, sometimes 'groovy' folk-song arrangements. A well-known example is 'Shepherd's Hey', a traditional English tune t...

for 6 trumpets, 4 horns, 4 trombones, euphonium, 2 tubas and suspended cymbal

for 6 trumpets, 4 horns, 4 trombones, euphonium, 2 tubas and suspended cymbal

Percy Grainger began work on Shepherd's Hey in 1908 for piano solo, published for the first time in 1911. Based on an English Morris Dance, the melody was collected by Cecil J. Sharp from the playing...

According to the composer, this carol was "noted" by Miss Lucy Brodwood near Sussex from the singing of Christmas Mummers called Tipteers or Tipteerers during their play of "Saint George, the Turk, an...

Composed 1913-16 and dedicated to Frederick Delius, The Warriors: Music to an Imaginary Ballet was originally composed for full orchestra. It is Grainger's longest single work, nearly 20 minutes of su...

Another in the series of Grainger Society-approved arrangements, Mock Morris is crafted after the 1950 edition done for Leopold Stokowski. Extensive program notes accompany this delightful work.

Percy Grainger's (1882-1961) love for music of the simple rural folk of the British Isles led to a series of forty-three pieces that he grouped into a series called "British Folk-Music Settings", incl...