In the field
Donald Macleod explores Percy Grainger's enthusiasm for folksong collecting, a glorious escape from starchy drawing rooms and concert halls.
Donald Macleod explores Percy Grainger's enthusiastic and sometimes controversial role in the folksong revival of the 1900s.
Folksong collecting provided a glorious escape for Percy Grainger, away from all those starchy drawing rooms and concert halls, but it also offered him a 鈥渕ission鈥�, to salvage what was left of something that then seemed bound on a course towards extinction. The industrial revolution and the spirit of modernism, the music hall and the gramophone had together set in train the death throes of folk art in general and the music of the people, outside the towns, in particular.
As the singer Peter Pears observed, Percy Grainger was 鈥渙bviously in love with folk-song.鈥�
Brigg Fair
Mark Padmore, tenor
Joyful Company of Singers
Peter Broadbent, conductor
Creeping Jane
Stephen Varcoe, baritone
Penelope Thwaites, piano
I'm Seventeen Come Sunday
English Chamber Orchestra
Ambrosian Singers
John McCarthy, conductor
Four Settings from 'Songs of the North'
Martyn Hill, tenor
Penelope Thwaites, piano
Green Bushes
English Chamber Orchestra
Steuart Bedford, conductor
Lincolnshire Posy
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra
Timothy Reynish, conductor
Producer: Martin Williams
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Percy Grainger
Brigg Fair
Singer: Mark Padmore. Choir: Joyful Company of Singers. Conductor: Peter Broadbent.- CHANDOS : CHAN-1063819.
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Percy Grainger
Creeping Jane
Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Singer: Stephen Varcoe.- Chandos 1063819.
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Percy Grainger
I'm Seventeen Come Sunday
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Choir: Ambrosian Singers.- LONDON : 425 159 2-.
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Percy Grainger
My Faithful Fond One
Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Singer: Martyn Hill.- CHANDOS : CHAN-1063819.
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Percy Grainger
The Women Are A'Gane Wud
Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Singer: Martyn Hill.- CHANDOS : CHAN-1063819.
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Percy Grainger
O'er The Morr
Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Singer: Martyn Hill.- CHANDOS : CHAN-1063819.
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Percy Grainger
Fair Young Mary
Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Singer: Martyn Hill.- CHANDOS : CHAN-1063819.
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Percy Grainger
Green Bushes
Performer: Steuart Bedford. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.- LONDON : 425 159 2-.
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Percy Grainger
A Lincolnshire Posy
Ensemble: Royal Northern College Of Music Wind Band. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.- CHANDOS : CHAN-1063819.
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