Grainger: Transcriptions for Wind Orchestra Piano Orchestral & Concertos Chandos

Grainger: Transcriptions for Wind Orchestra

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CHAN 10455

Grainger: Transcriptions for Wind Orchestra

CD UPC: 0095115145524

Release Date: March 2008
Originally recorded in 2007

Composer (1882-1961)
Percy Grainger

Solo piano
Ivan Hovorun

Orchestra
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra

Conductor
Clark Rundell

Venue
Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester

Producer
Brian Pidgeon

Engineer
Don Hartridge

Engineer (Assistant)
Tom Parnell

Genre:
Piano
Orchestral & Concertos

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PERCY GRAINGER

(1882-1961)

premiere recording in this version

Angelus ad Virginem (1942)

1:55

by Anonymous (thirteenth century)

from Chosen Gems for Winds

Edited by Barry Peter Ould

Liltingly

premiere recording

Ballade No. 17 (1937)

2:11

by Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300-1377)

from Chosen Gems for Winds

Edited by Keith Brion and Barry Peter Ould

Lyrically, with slow gentle lilt

premiere recording

La Bernardina (1943)

1:16

Canzone in three parts

by Josquin des Prez (c. 1450/1455-1521)

from Chosen Gems for Winds

Edited by Barry Peter Ould

Flowingly

Prelude in the Dorian Mode (1941)

4:17

Tiènto del Segundo Tono

by Antonio de Cabezón (c. 1510-1566)

from Chosen Gems for Winds

Edited by Keith Brion and Michael Brand

Flowingly - Coda. Somewhat lingeringly, gradually slowing to the end

premiere recording

The Four Note Pavan (1940)

3:06

No. 13 from Consort Music to the Viols in 4, 5 and 6 parts

by Alfonso Ferrabosco II (c. 1575-1628)

from Chosen Gems for Winds

Edited by Barry Peter Ould

Stately, yet with a grave playfulness, and wit the lilt of a slow dance

premiere recording in this version

Five-Part Fantasy No. 15 (1937-41)

3:16

A Five Tone-Strand Fantasy for Viols

by John Jenkins (1592-1678)

Scored from the original Viol manuscript

by Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940)

from Chosen Gems for Winds

Edited by Stephen Carpenter

Lively, but sustained (not energetic)

March (1946)

1:31

March, BWV Anh. 122

from Clavierbüchlein II for Anna Magdalena Bach (1725)

by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

now attributed to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

as interpreted by Arnold Dolmetsch

from Chosen Gems for Winds

Edited by Kees Kramer and Barry Peter Ould

Fast marching speed

premiere recording

See what His love can do (1937)

3:02

'Seht, was die Liebe tut', aria for tenor

from Cantata, BWV 85 Ich bin ein guter Hirt (1725)

by Johann Sebastian Bach

from Chosen Gems for Winds

Edited and realised by Barry Peter Ould

Larghetto

O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde groß (1936-42)

3:38

Chorale prelude, BWV 622

from Das Orgelbüchlein (1713-15)

by Johann Sebastian Bach

from Chosen Gems for Winds

Edited by Keith Brion and Michael Brand

Slowly flowing - Più lento

premiere recording in this version

10.

Hungarian Fantasy (1959)

16:38

Fantasie über ungarische Volksmelodien, S 123, R 458 (1849-52)

by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Edited by Barry Peter Ould

Andante mesto - Adagio -

Solo: Ivan Hovorun piano

11.

Chorale No. 2 (1942)

11:47

from Trois Chorals (1890)

by César Franck (1822-1890)

from Chosen Gems for Winds

Edited by R. Mark Rogers

Maestoso - Largamente, con fantasia -

12.

Tuscan Serenade (1937)

2:49

'Sérénade toscane', Op. 3 No. 2 (?1878)

by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

from Chosen Gems for Winds

Edited by Keith Brion and Luis Maldonado

Andante con moto quasi Allegretto - Più mosso - Tempo I

13.

Folk-Tune (1942)

2:33

No. 1 from Two Ballades, Op. 38 (1924)

by Sir Eugene Goossens (1893-1962)

from Chosen Gems for Winds

Molto tranquillo e con moto - Rallentando al fine

premiere recording in this version

14.

Down Longford Way (1935)

2:08

No. 2 from Four Musical Sketches (1928)

by Katharine Parker (1886-1971)

Edited and realised by Barry Peter Ould

Slowly but flowing (Andante) - Molto rallentendo al fine

60:51

Solo: Ivan Hovorun piano

Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra

Conductor: Clark Rundell

1 and 2 April 2007

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Reviews

I suspect that many of these works will find their way into the repertoire, and hope that they will be given equally warm recorded sound and winning performances as here.

Gramophone

The performances from this student orchestra are sleek and warmly coloured, and Ukranian pianists Ivan Hovorum is a stylish soloist in the Liszt.

The Telegraph

This is fascinating disc bringing together the brilliant wind transcriptions made by Percy Grainger between 1937 and 1959, some of the edited by Barry Peter Ould and recorded for the first time. He may have been quirky with his own music, but this is Grainger the scholar-poet finding wonderful sonorities for Machaut, Bach, John Jenkins, Faure, Goossens and Liszt among others. Ivan Hoverun is the pianist in Liszt’s Hungarian fantasy. The playing by the RNCM band is of professional standard and its conductor Clarke Randell finds the ideal spirit for each of the items.

The Sunday Telegraph

This is the latest release in Chandos’s apparent long-term project of recording just about everything that Percy Grainger wrote… The recordings are as fine as we have come to expect fromChandos and Barry Peter Ould contributes excellent booklet notes. Despite the appearance of a ’bits and pieces’ record, I do urge you to hear this remarkable disc; much of this music is really worthwhile, adding to our knowledge of this extraordinarily gifted individual.

International Record Review

Clark Rundell has made some fine recordings with the RNCM Wind Ensemble, but none more enjoyable than his latest release for Chandos, devoted to transcriptions by Percy Grainger…. With sonorous recording by Don Hartridge, this is a treat for music loversand sound buffs.

Liverpool Daily Post

Excellent readings by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Ensemble, a group that can be counted on for consistently fine intonation and blend.

American Record Guide

Clark Rundell conducts lively yet stylistically sound renditions of everything here, while the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra (whose musicians perhaps practice breath support by repeating its name over and over) performs it all with obvious expertise. Excellent sound, good liner notes. Definately worth getting if you’re a Grainger enthusiast, a fan of wind band music, or simply want to hear a great arrangement of Franck and one of the most successful performances of the Liszt on record.

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