One of my favorite Grainger tunes.Captures the spirit of his love for the land of his birth.Australian Musicians seem to ignore his music to a large extent..I wonder why?
Grainger's Long Published Program Note: 'No traditional tunes of any kind are made use of in this piece, in which I have wished to express feelings aroused by thoughts of the scenery and people of my native land, (Australia), and also to voice a certain kind of emotion that seems to me not untypical of native-born Colonials in general. Perhaps it is not unnatural that people living more or less lonelily in vast virgin countries and struggling against natural and climatic hardships (rather than against the more actively and dramatically exciting counter wills of their fellow men, as in more thickly populated lands) should run largely to that patiently yearning, inactive sentimental wistfulness that we find so touchingly expressed in much American art; for instance in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, and in Stephen C. Foster's adorable songs My Old Kentucky Home, Old Folks at Home, etc. I have also noticed curious, almost Italian-like, musical tendencies in brass band performances and ways of singing in Australia (such as a preference for richness and intensity of tone and soulful breadth of phrasing over more subtly and sensitively varied delicacies of expression), which are also reflected here.'
@@keybawd4023 it’s a recording of a piano roll. Grainger recorded the piece onto a piano roll and then later they re-recorded that roll. So everyone’s right.
One of the great pianist composers... He'll always be under-rated.
One of my favorite Grainger tunes.Captures the spirit of his love for the land of his birth.Australian Musicians seem to ignore his music to a large extent..I wonder why?
It belongs to a vanished age. Rather sadly it has been largely forgotten in England too.
He is an amazing musical mind, but he has had many... personal things that I do not think many people would like. You can look it up for yourself.
He's quite alive and well in the wind "band" world! Join us! :)
Now here's the stuff... too good
Grainger's Long Published Program Note:
'No traditional tunes of any kind are made use of in this piece, in which I have wished to express feelings aroused by thoughts of the scenery and people of my native land, (Australia), and also to voice a certain kind of emotion that seems to me not untypical of native-born Colonials in general.
Perhaps it is not unnatural that people living more or less lonelily in vast virgin countries and struggling against natural and climatic hardships (rather than against the more actively and dramatically exciting counter wills of their fellow men, as in more thickly populated lands) should run largely to that patiently yearning, inactive sentimental wistfulness that we find so touchingly expressed in much American art; for instance in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, and in Stephen C. Foster's adorable songs My Old Kentucky Home, Old Folks at Home, etc.
I have also noticed curious, almost Italian-like, musical tendencies in brass band performances and ways of singing in Australia (such as a preference for richness and intensity of tone and soulful breadth of phrasing over more subtly and sensitively varied delicacies of expression), which are also reflected here.'
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Doug, this is Paul from Lincoln East. Do you have this album on vinyl? If so, you're a lucky guy - I've been trying to find it for so long now!
Paul - yes! Have it framed too :) if you want the ripped recordings let me know!
Thanks! I already have the mp3s, but I appreciate the offer!
I realize this is 4 years later but if you are still offering those I would very much like to have these recordings. What a musical treasure.
Is this a pianola roll?
+Ant No - Grainger played everything on this album himself
It sounds like a piano roll. There is something robotic about the sound.
@@keybawd4023 it’s a recording of a piano roll. Grainger recorded the piece onto a piano roll and then later they re-recorded that roll. So everyone’s right.