Percy Grainger speaks and plays (1948)
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Percy Grainger (1882-1961) was a multi-talented universalist who wanted to embrace and encompass all the arts... he was not only a musician, but also a folklorist, editor, musicologist, lecturer, writer, inventor etc etc.
Playing the piano was just one of his many interests... though he had enough skills to impress Busoni and Grieg with his playing, and he had original ideas about phrasing, making contrasts and pedaling.
Here at 2:33 we can hear him play Claude Debussy's "Pagodes" (from "Estampes") during a recital at the University of Texas in 1948. Before he plays he briefly talks about the influence of Oriental music on Debussy, notably the Javanese gamelan orchestras that Debussy heard for the first time during the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1888 (or 1889?). 
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What a superb performance! I've never heard the Javanese element brought out so well.
I would call his accent Anglo-Australian; it's both at once. Given that he left Australia at 13, it's remarkable that he never lost it - so many Australians who settle in England seem to lose it completely.
Yes, it is sad the accent persisted.
@@iianneill6013 Never mind.
I'm sure pharmaceuticals have made amazing advances?
Perhap's there's treatment available, these days?
Cheers, Herb
@Noshir-san You're welcome! A characteristic tenor-voice he had... and what about the comparison he made:
"...Just as Orientals, on the whole, are unwilling to kill animal- or insect-life -- when they need it, just gently laying it aside -- so also, they are unwilling to kill tones that have been brought into life. The tones in the Javanese Gamelan-orchestra's are never dead -- they sing on..."
what an incredible mind, and what an amazing pianist !!!
Thank you so very much for posting this gem!
Fantastic! I didn't know this existed - thanks so much for posting!
He was 66 years old when this recording was made in 1948. You can hear that Aussie accent slip in during that British influenced colloquialism of that era.
Aussie accent? Well a little, perhaps, but he lived in Australia for such a short time. He was effectively a British ex-pat. Much as (say) Richard Dawkins or Cliff Richard (Africa and India respectively). Of course, later he became a Us citizen.
He became a US citizen in very early 1900's
i have this on an old Pearl CD but its awesome you posted this. Grainger was a genius. One of the most brilliant musicians and thinkers of the 20th century. AWESOME Erwin!
What beautiful English diction! He doesn't sound like an Australian at all.
Fascinating character.
So many wonderful performers have come from Australia!
what a talent he was!
Absolutely wonderful!
Fantastic discuss and lecture with demonstration!
I haven't heard a voice quite like that in many decades. Genuine multi-disciplinary genius ratbag and sui generis giant of his art. All English accents seem to be changing - dragged here and there by television, film, the internet and travel. To those people bating at his personal peccadilloes: you're just embarrassing yourselves.
Do you consider rabid anti-semitism a "personal peccadilo"? Very talented musician, yes, but a serious head-case.
dragonize1952 A brilliant musician and an interesting voice: mostly received pronunciation with just a hint of Aussie.
Actually, I was talking about his broader peculiarities, eg, the awful clothes he invented, the eccentric diets, the fixation on Nordic themes, the obsession with physical fitness and the s&m stuff. He was original, we can't deny him that.He lived far enough into the age of mass communication to be subsequently damned for his anti-Semitic views. I wonder what we would think of Mozart if he'd had Twitter? or Beethoven if he'd blogged? Was Hadyn a hater? Who knows? Do we damn the music if the composer had failures?
dragonize1952 yeah, not reading enough and developing opinions by here say. Amazing. But people like you still exist, yes.
What genious isnt a head case. Oh yeah, the music critic.
Percy so rocks the house!
Wonderful performance of Debussy's Pagodes!
Heard him talking as a radio guest occasionally. Though his interpretive ideas with "Pagodes" can provoke added ideas, for me they are not really any I'd think seriously about clamping onto. I got to fondly hear my favorite pianist growing up - the superb Impressionist, Gieseking, but I did not admire his "Pagodes", either. About the only one I DID, was Richter! He played it ecleasiastically calm, though from a seemingly Asian mindset, and at a much slower (and I feel - more correct) tempo. Unlike Grainger, Richter delivered the forte passages without any heated emotion, keeping them earthbound and 'tinted' in timeless historiography.
His house is a half-hour from me. Hope to visit it soon.
We're having a reception at the Grainger House on May 12, 2017, perhaps you could visit? Www.percygraingeramerica.org
I hope that you did! I visited about three years ago and really enjoyed my experience.
Wonderful!
Remembering PERCY GRAINGER (1882 - 1961) on his birthday !
Me as well!
absolutely rare and important !
i love this man
Genius!!
he is my great grandpar!
Would you mind elaborating for me? I'm interested in the geneology of Percy Grainger.
I didn't even know he had any children let alone grand ( or great grand ) children.
Really??
thi kim ngan clarke l have read several books about Grainger and apparently the only ' child' he had was a step daughter from his marriage to Ella. Unless of course you can tell us more?
thi kim ngan clarke yo he had no kids
RUclips isn't all stupid
+maxemail Glad I'm not the only one that knows
what piece did he say it was? I couldnt understand him
If you hear Vaughan Williams speaking his diction is a lot like this (Maybe RVW has a slight lisp) ruclips.net/video/DuatN2PrvYY/видео.html
So, it wasn't just Colin McPhee who piqued Britten's interest in gamelan music, pagodas & so forth!
Where's his Aussie accent?! :-D
Actually he sounds uncannily like Vaughan-Williams! ( but without the slight lisp )
calatria2949 its a refined Aussie accent, a bit like a 1940s Geoffrey Rush
calatria2949 He left Australia at the age of 13.
Or even Errol Flynn. The modern Aussie accent(s) have evolved a great deal over the decades.
He sounds like all the ABC radio and early television announcers of the 1950s and 60s...which I call 'Australian affected'...you cant compare his accent to an English accent because there are so many English accents...from the royal family to cockney!
I would rather call him “a great re-composer”
That's bullshit.
@@catholicschooljew It absolutely is. Percy Grainger wrote, "I think the entire musical world is entirely oblivious of the whole world of bitterness, resentment, iconoclasm & denunciation that lies behind my music.”