My freshman year of high school our concert band played this piece and to this day it still gives me the same chills it gave me all those years ago. Easily my favorite arrangement I’ve ever heard.
Absolutely exquisite rendition of this piece. The clarity in the parts is so easy to hear, and your ability to bring out the melody is just wonderful. Bravo
It's really astoundingly beautiful how brilliant of an orchestrator Grainger was. To recall the fact that this is also an adaptation of a work for wind ensemble and to have such intricate voicings makes this piece so much more deep and lovely.
Couldn't agree more Matthew. As simple as this is to play notewise, to master the balance between the inner voices is very difficult indeed. Percy Grainger had this down to a fine art :)
Beautiful arrangement and lovely, lovely playing. Thank you for posting this. I didn't know Percy Grainger had arranged this for the piano. I was able to find a copy of the sheet music and am so looking forward to learning this lovely piece!❤
This is an absolutely gorgeous interpretation and performance. I have had this piece in my collection for over 40 years since starting to learn piano - if only I ever came close to this powerful and moving performance. Thank you so much - this recording will be played many times. Having just located my copy of the music, I might even have another go at learning it (with a bit of grand plagiarism from this recording...). Many thanks and regards from Sydney - David
I'm not sure if I had heard it before, but as soon as I did while watching 1952's ''Foghorn'', starring Toshiro Mifune, it stuck me by how good it was.
How right you are. I tell my student that this is one of the most difficult things I have ever played. Why? The voicing. We are all trained to voice the tops of chords, NOT this note here, this note there.
I love Penelope Thwaites' performances of other Grainger pieces, but she drags this out just too much (despite Grainger's 'don't drag', etc. instructions). Listen to the composer himself (on YT) to hear how he imagined it; yes, the rubato is extreme, but when the emotion needs to come out, he never holds it back, as Thwaites does.
I agree Grainger is neglected (not sure about Mendelsson). Some of his compositions and arrangements are moving e.g. the Colonial Song and Shallow Brown. This particulr tune (have to be careful with the name) is regarded by many to be one of the World's most beautiful and Grainger's arrangement in its many forms can only bolster that opinion. I have recently heard/watched on Yt a version by Kieth Jarrett which is pretty impresive. No doubt there are others of which I am unaware.
My freshman year of high school our concert band played this piece and to this day it still gives me the same chills it gave me all those years ago. Easily my favorite arrangement I’ve ever heard.
Absolutely exquisite rendition of this piece. The clarity in the parts is so easy to hear, and your ability to bring out the melody is just wonderful. Bravo
It's really astoundingly beautiful how brilliant of an orchestrator Grainger was. To recall the fact that this is also an adaptation of a work for wind ensemble and to have such intricate voicings makes this piece so much more deep and lovely.
Couldn't agree more Matthew. As simple as this is to play notewise, to master the balance between the inner voices is very difficult indeed. Percy Grainger had this down to a fine art :)
That Db in 2nd last bar - tells a whole story in itself of loss, ages spent and so-be-it ... Well done!
This was beautifully played Penelope. Percy Grainger was such a master at bringing out the tune in the midst of such gorgeous notation.
Beautiful arrangement and lovely, lovely playing. Thank you for posting this. I didn't know Percy Grainger had arranged this for the piano. I was able to find a copy of the sheet music and am so looking forward to learning this lovely piece!❤
Bravo Penelope ! excellent voicing and dynamics. Totally conveys the spirit of this music
Grainger was expert at piano voicing - wow
This is an absolutely gorgeous interpretation and performance. I have had this piece in my collection for over 40 years since starting to learn piano - if only I ever came close to this powerful and moving performance. Thank you so much - this recording will be played many times. Having just located my copy of the music, I might even have another go at learning it (with a bit of grand plagiarism from this recording...). Many thanks and regards from Sydney - David
Now I'm going to have to dig out my copy! Though I'm going to have to fudge a lot to play it on my 61-note Yamaha keyboard....
Absolutely wonderful. The way she colours those chords.
A powerful and beautifully rendered version of this famous tune. Bravo, Penny, wherever you are.
how could anyone dislike this? this is amazing! thanks for uploading :D
Beatiful air folk, beautiful play, Respect to Player,Penelope Thwaites, Arranger,Percy Grainger, and Origin Collector Jane Ross (died in 1879)
Absolutely fantastic
Very well played in such complex voicings! Chapeau.
Beautiful. And extremely difficult.
so nice!!! A perfect encore piece actually
I hope to play this for my piano final this semester and for the piano recital
I was thinking the exact thing for myself!
That is, if I were a music student majoring in piano.
Still...
what a moving arrangement and performance
Wonderful.
I'm not sure if I had heard it before, but as soon as I did while watching 1952's ''Foghorn'', starring Toshiro Mifune, it stuck me by how good it was.
WONDERFULL
Wow she plays some of the notes so quietly I wonder if I’m just hearing overtones from other notes
That was brilliant
Beautiful melodic economy.
Perfect voicings! I hear a lot of Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans in this beautiful piece!
Actually you hear a lot of Grainger in Jarrett and Evans
I like it
How right you are. I tell my student that this is one of the most difficult things I have ever played. Why? The voicing. We are all trained to voice the tops of chords, NOT this note here, this note there.
Londonderry Air Danny Boy is brilliant
Do you have a pdf (or a link to it) for the sheet music?
well to the fore
Is there a full sheet that I can read off of? Reading it every two measures is kind of hard...
Yes, I found the score here: imslp.org/wiki/Irish_Tune_from_County_Derry_(Grainger,_Percy)
I love Penelope Thwaites' performances of other Grainger pieces, but she drags this out just too much (despite Grainger's 'don't drag', etc. instructions). Listen to the composer himself (on YT) to hear how he imagined it; yes, the rubato is extreme, but when the emotion needs to come out, he never holds it back, as Thwaites does.
I see what you did there!
Any possibility of doing his "Country Garden" this way?
5 people call it "Oh danny boy"
those
Pedal marks lmao
Fancy seeing you here haha I've listen to your Lamentations piece so many times...wonderful writing, sir!
@@joshuapinkham thanks! kind of you
Bassin gang
Go to imslp.org and search for it.
This is really neat. Would you mind sending me a pdf of this? Or finale doc?
reminds so of danny boy and colonial song
etude5 it is Danny boy.
You are kidding, right? I certainly hope so.
Grainger is criminally underrated, overshadowed in our mainstream concert spaces by such mediocre hacks as Mendelssohn and even Rubinstein.
I agree Grainger is neglected (not sure about Mendelsson). Some of his compositions and arrangements are moving e.g. the Colonial Song and Shallow Brown. This particulr tune (have to be careful with the name) is regarded by many to be one of the World's most beautiful and Grainger's arrangement in its many forms can only bolster that opinion. I have recently heard/watched on Yt a version by Kieth Jarrett which is pretty impresive. No doubt there are others of which I am unaware.
Better at 1.25x speed (RUclips shortcut Shift+>)
What is with those ugly pedal markings everywhere?
Grainger is really specific with his notation for some reason; in his opinion it wouldn't be the same without those markings.
Pretty anodyne for a Grainer composition.