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Percy Grainger
July 8, 1882 - February 21, 1961
born in Brighton, Melbourne, Australia, composed during the Modern period
born in Brighton, Melbourne, Australia, composed during the Modern period
Percy Grainger (1882-1961) was a tireless teacher and composer remembered for his arrangements of music for countless combinations of instruments, most notably for band. His aim was to make music a democratic art, accessible to all. At first, he earned a living as a concert and recording pianist, then gradually moved more into education. Grainger was one of the first ethnomusicologists to collect and record folk music, and his arrangements frequently try to capture non-melodic or non-harmonic aspects of the original. Grainger, although he became an American citizen, was central to the development of Australian music as distinct from other Western music. ~ Patsy Morita, Rovi
Selected Discography
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Track List: An Introduction To Percy Grainger
Title: Country Gardens, Folk Song For Orchestra (various Arrangements) (BFMS 22)
Title: Irish Tune From County Derry (Londonderry Air), Folk Song For 10 Strings With 2 Horns Ad Lib. (BFMS 15)
Title: Green Bushes, Passacaglia For 22 Solo Instruments Or Orchestra (BFMS 12)
Title: Early One Morning, Folk Song For String Orchestra (edited By Peter Barry Ould; BFMS Unnumbered)
Title: There Was A Pig Went Out To Dig, Folk Song For Female Chorus (or Solo Voices) (BFMS 18)
Title: Shepherd's Hey!, Folk Song For Orchestra (BFMS 16)
Title: Shallow Brown, Chanty For 1 Or 2 Voices (Solo Or Chorus) & Ensemble (Scs 3)
Title: Lincolnshire Posy, Folk Song Suite For Wind Band (BFMS 34)
Title: The Immovable Do (The Ciphering C), For 9 Solo Strings Or String Orchestra Or Orchestra
Title: Handel In The Strand, Clog Dance For Orchestra (various Orchestations; RMTB 2)
Title: I'm Seventeen Come Sunday, Folk Song For Chorus, Percussion & Strings (Bfms 8)
Title: Blithe Bells (Ramble On Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze"), For Theater, Small Or Massed Orchestra (elastic Scoring)
Title: Molly On The Shore, Folk Song For Orchestra (or Theater Orchestra) (BFMS 1)
Title: Mock Morris, For Orchestra (elastic Scoring) (RMTB 1)
Title: English Dance, For Theater Orchestra (elastic Scoring)
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Track List: Grainger Danny Boy - Songs And Dancing Ballads
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Track List: Grainger: The Power of Love
Title: Danish Folk Music Suite, For Orchestra (elastic Scoring) (DFMS 1, 2, 9, 10)
Title: Colonial Song, For Orchestra (elastic Scoring) (Sentimental No. 1)
Title: Country Gardens, Folk Song For Orchestra (various Arrangements) (BFMS 22)
Title: Irish Tune From County Derry (Londonderry Air), Folk Song For String Orchestra With 2 Horns Ad Lib. (Bfms 15)
Title: Green Bushes, Passacaglia For 22 Solo Instruments Or Orchestra (BFMS 12)
Title: Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon, Folk Song For Elastic Scoring (school Or Amateur Orchestra) (BFMS 31)
Title: Shepherd's Hey!, Folk Song For Orchestra (BFMS 16)
Title: My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone, Song For Flute, English Horn & Strings (OEPM 2)
Title: To A Nordic Princess (Bridal Song), For Orchestra With Organ Ad Lib.
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Track List: Percy Grainger - Country Gardens And Other Piano Favourites
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Track List: Percy Grainger: Country Gardens; Bridal Lullaby; Handel In The Strand
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Track List: Percy Grainger: Famous Folk-Settings
Title: Youthful Suite, For Orchestra
Title: Blithe Bells (Ramble On Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze"), For Theater, Small Or Massed Orchestra (elastic Scoring)
Title: Spoon River, Folk Song For Elastic Scoring (3 Instruments To Orchestra) (AFMS 2)
Title: My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone, Song For Flute, English Horn & Strings (OEPM 2)
Title: Green Bushes, Passacaglia For 22 Solo Instruments Or Orchestra (BFMS 12)
Title: Country Gardens, Folk Song For Orchestra (various Arrangements) (BFMS 22)
Title: Mock Morris, For 6 Solo Strings Or String Orchestra (RMTB 1)
Title: Youthful Rapture, For Cello, Violin, Piano, Harmonium & Chamber Ensemble (RMTB Unnumbered)
Title: Shepherd's Hey!, Folk Song For Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Concertino & Strings (BFMS 3)
Title: Walking Tune, For Wind Quintet (RMTB 3)
Title: Molly On The Shore, Folk Song For Orchestra (or Theater Orchestra) (BFMS 1)
Title: Handel In The Strand, Clog Dance For Piano, Violin, Viola Ad Lib. & Cello (or Piano & String Orchestra) (RMTB 2)
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Track List: Percy Grainger: The Complete Piano Music
Disc 1
Title: Handel In The Strand, Clog Dance For Piano (Rmtb 2)
Title: A Bridal Lullaby, For Piano (Edited By Ronald Stevenson For Use In The Film "Howard's End")
Title: English Waltz, For Piano
Title: Mock Morris, For Piano (original And Concert Versions) (RMTB 1)
Title: To A Nordic Princess (Bridal Song), For Piano (short Version Of Orchestral Work)
Title: In A Nutshell, Suite For Piano
Title: Peace, For Piano (YT Unnumbered)
Title: Saxon Twiplay, For Piano (YT Unnumbered)
Title: Andante Con Moto, For Piano (YT Unnumbered)
Title: Children's March (Over The Hills And Far Away), Folk Song For Piano (short Version)
Title: The Immovable Do (The Ciphering C), For Piano
Title: Sailor's Song, For Piano
Title: Colonial Song, For Piano (Sentimental No. 1)
Title: Walking Tune, For Piano (RMTB 3)
Title: Harvest Hymn, For Piano
Title: In Dahomey (Cakewalk Smasher), For Piano (Edited By Ronald Stevenson)
Disc 2
Title: Piano Concerto No. 1 In B Flat Minor: Beginning Of First Movement, Transcription For Piano (After Tchaikovsky; Fs 8)
Title: Cradle Song, Arrangement For Piano (after Brahms, Op. 49/4; FS 1)
Title: Love Walked In, Transcription For Piano (after Gershwin)
Title: Piano Concerto No. 2 In C Minor: Third Movement, Arrangement For Piano (after Rachmaninov)
Title: Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part, Song Transcription For Piano (After John Dowland; 2 Versions; Fs)
Title: Nimrod, Transcription For Piano (after Elgar's "Enigma Variations")
Title: Ramble On Love, For Piano (After The Love Duet From Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier;" Fs 4)
Title: Beautiful Fresh Flower, Folk Song For Piano (after Traditional Chinese Music)
Title: Paraphrase On Tchaikovsky's Waltz Of The Flowers, For Piano
Title: Lullaby From "Tribute To Foster", For Piano (complex Version)
Title: The Rag-Time Girl, Transcription For Piano (after Ida Emerson And Joe E. Howard's "Hello, Ma Baby")
Title: Blithe Bells (Ramble On Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze"), For Piano (2 Versions)
Title: Fugue In A Minor, Transcription For Piano (after J.S. Bach, Well-Tempered Klavier I, No. 18)
Title: The Man I Love, Concert Adaptation For Piano (after Gershwin's Song Transcription For Piano)
Disc 3
Title: Country Gardens, Folk Song For Piano (Bfms 22)
Title: The Merry King, Folk Song For Piano (BFMS 38)
Title: Molly On The Shore, Folk Song For Piano (Bfms 19)
Title: Irish Tune From County Derry (Londonderry Air), Folk Song For Piano (Bfms 6)
Title: Knight And Shepherd's Daughter, Folk Song For Piano (BFMS 18)
Title: The Nightingale And The Two Sisters, Folk Song For Piano (edited By Joseph Smith; DFMS 10)
Title: Jutish Medley, Folk Songs For Piano (DFMS 8)
Title: The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol, Folk Song For Piano (BFMS 2)
Title: The Rival Brothers, Folk Song For Piano (FI Unnumbered)
Title: Near Woodstock Town, Folk Song For Piano (Bfms Unnumbered)
Title: Will Ye Gang To The Hielands, Lizzie Lindsay
Title: The Brisk Young Sailor, Folk Song For Piano
Title: One More Day, My John, Chanty For Piano (Scs 1)
Title: Rimmer And Goldcastle (Rammerlil Og Guldborg), Folk Song For Piano (DFMS 3)
Title: Spoon River, Folk Song For 2 Pianos (AFMS 3)
Title: The Widow's Party, For Piano (KS 7)
Title: The Hunter In His Career, Song For Piano (OEPM 4)
Title: My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone, Song For Piano (Oepm 2)
Title: Died For Love, Folk Song For Piano (BFMS 10)
Title: Scotch Strathspey And Reel, Folk Song For Piano (BFMS 37)
Title: One More Day, My John, Chanty For Piano (Scs 1)
Title: In Bristol Town, Folk Song For Piano (BFMS Unnumbered)
Title: Hard-Hearted Barb'ra (H)Ellen, Folk Song For Piano (BFMS Unnumbered)
Title: Mo Nighean Dubh (My Dark-Haired Maiden), Folk Song For Piano (Scottish Folksongs No. 2)
Title: Lisbon (Dublin Bay), Folk Song For Piano (2 Versions) (BFMS 40)
Title: Stalt Vesselil (Proud Vesselil), Folk Song For Piano (DFMS Unnumbered)
Title: O Gin I Were Where Gowrie (Gadie) Rins, Folk Song For Piano (Scottish Folksongs No. 3)
Title: Shepherd's Hey!, Folk Song For Piano (2 Versions) (BFMS 4)
Disc 4
Title: Irish Dances (4), Transcription For Piano (after Charles Villiers Stanford)
Title: Nell, Song Transcription For Piano (after Fauré, Op. 18/1; FS 3)
Title: Après Un Rêve, Song Transcription For Piano (after Fauré, Op. 7/1; FS 7)
Title: Piano Concerto In A Minor: First Movement, Arrangement For Piano (after Schumann)
Title: Tiger, Tiger, For Piano (KS 4, KJBC 9)
Title: Air And Dance, Transcription For Piano (after Delius; Edited By Threlfall)
Title: Hornpipe, Arranged For Piano (after Handel's Water Music Suite No. 1; FS 2)
Title: Toccata And Fugue In D Minor, Transcribed For Piano (after J.S. Bach, BWV 565, Edited By Leslie Howard)
Title: Lullaby From "Tribute To Foster", For Piano (easy Version)
Title: Angelus Ad Virginem, For Piano (EGM Unnumbered)
Title: Klavierstück, For Piano In E Major (edited By Penelope Thwaites; YT Unnumbered)
Title: Eastern Intermezzo, For Piano
Title: Bigelow March, For Piano (melody By Ella Grainger)
Title: Piano Concerto In A Minor: First Movement, Arrangement For Piano (after Grieg)
Title: At Twilight, For Piano
Title: Klavierstück, For Piano In A Minor (edited By Penelope Thwaites; YT Unnumbered)
Title: Klavierstück, For Piano In B Flat Major (YT Unnumbered)
Title: Klavierstück, For Piano In D Major (YT Unnumbered)
Disc 5
Title: Children's March (Over The Hills And Far Away), Folk Song For 2 Pianos (Rmtb 4)
Title: Colonial Song, For Piano (Sentimental No. 1)
Title: English Dance, For 2 Pianos, 6 Hands
Title: Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon, Folk Song For Piano, 6 Hands (BFMS Unnumbered)
Title: Spoon River, Folk Song For Piano (AFMS 1)
Title: Train Music, Excerpt For Piano
Title: Zanzibar Boat Song, For Piano, 6 Hands (RMTB 6)
Title: Paganini Variation No. 12, Simplified Arrangement For Piano (after Brahms' Op. 35)
Title: Green Bushes, Passacaglia For 2 Pianos, 6 Hands (BFMS 25)
Title: The Carman's Whistle, Air And Variations For Piano (after William Byrd)
Title: Dance Rhapsody No. 1, Transcription For 2 Pianos (after Delius)
Title: Embraceable You, Transcription For Piano, 4 Hands (from Gershwin's "Girl Crazy")
Title: The Warriors (Music To An Imaginary Ballet), For 2 Pianos, 6 Hands With Optional Brass Ensemble
Comments
I'm a clarinetist and first experienced Grainger through his works for wind band. After researching his life and knowing how he was primarily known as a pianist, you can really begin to hear just how well Grainger understood the capabilities of the piano and the technical skill that he must've possessed.
Thanks, Pandora!