Grainger: Jungle Book
& other choral works
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st January 2011
Grainger's cycle evokes the lyrical side of Kipling's animal tales. As with the coupled folk arrangements, it's beautifully sung.
Grainger: Jungle Book
& other choral works
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
Purchase product
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 31st January 2011
Grainger's cycle evokes the lyrical side of Kipling's animal tales. As with the coupled folk arrangements, it's beautifully sung.
About
This reissue commemorates the 50th anniversary of Grainger’s death in February 1961.
Harmonium, four guitars, two mandolas, two mandolins, two ukuleles, piccolo, three clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, two alto saxophones, horn, strings, piano, baritone and choir: and that’s just the scoring for one piece, the famous sea shanty Shallow Brown.
Grainger’s Jungle Book cycle was recorded here (for the original Hyperion release) for the first time. The eleven contrasting movements vividly portray the sentiments of Kipling’s poetry and Grainger wrote of the cycle that it was ‘composed as a protest against civilization’.
Contents and tracklist
- Lesley Jane Rogers (soprano)
- Polyphony
- Stephen Layton
Spotlight on this release
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Percy Grainger
31st Jan 2011
The fiftieth anniversary of the Australian pianist, composer and all-round eccentric brings reissues of his own recordings on APR and a tribute from Benjamin Britten and friends, plus the Jungle Book from John Mark Ainsley, Polyphony and Stephen Layton.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week31st January 2011
December 2011
Grainger's cycle evokes the lyrical side of Kipling's animal tales. As with the coupled folk arrangements, it's beautifully sung.
Classic CD
This disc offers a sympathetic, endearing portrait of a composer too often valued for his wackiness and eccentricity alone
Unquestionably an important and relishable release
