Grainger, Percy Aldridge: Famous Folk Settings (Chandos Audio CD)

Famous Folk-Settings

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)


Youthful Suite 5:16
1 II Rustic Dance 3:26
2 IV Eastern Intermezzo 1:50

3 Blithe Bells 3:23
Free ramble - on a theme by J.S. Bach: 'Sheep May Safely Graze'

4 Spoon River 4:53
American Folk-Music Setting No. 2

5 My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone 5:53
Settings of Songs and Tunes from William Chappell's Old English Popular Music No. 2

6 Green Bushes 8:40
Passacaglia on an English Folksong British Folk-Music Setting No. 12

7 Country Gardens 2:18
Orchestrated by Adolf Schmid

8 Mock Morris 3:29
Room-music Tit-bits No. 1

9 Youthful Rapture 6:01
for solo cello

10 Shepherd's Hey 2:12
British Folk-Music Setting No. 3

11 Walking Tune 3:30
for Wind Five-some
Room-music Tit-bits No. 3

12 Molly on the Shore 3:50
Irish Reel
British Folk-Music Setting No. 1

13 Handel in the Strand 4:45
Clog Dance
54:57
Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Moray Welsh cello
Philip Martin piano
Kenneth Montgomery
Recorded in:
Christchurch Priory, Dorset
March 1978
Producer(s)
Brian Couzens
Sound Engineer(s)
Ralph Couzens
Format: ADD
Bit Rate: Pre - 20 Bit