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Danny Boy: Songs and Dancing Ballads by Percy Grainger

Percy Grainger (Composer), John Eliot Gardiner (Conductor), Monteverdi Orchestra (Orchestra), Format: Audio CD

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Track Listings

1	I'm Seventeen Come Sunday-Folk Song from Lincolnshire and Somerset
2	Brigg Fair-Folk Song from Lincolnshire
3	Love Verses From The Song Of Solomon (World Premiere)
4	The Merry Wedding-Bridal Dance (World Premiere)
5	Shallow Brown-Sailor's sea-chanty
6	Father and Daughter-A Faeroe Island dancing ballad (World Premiere)
7	Mo Nighean Dubh
8	The Bride's Tragedy (Wolrd Premiere)
9	Irish Tune from County Derry (Also known as Danny Boy)
10	Scotch Strathspey and Reel-Inlaid with several Irish and Scotch tunes and a sea-chanty
11	The Lost Lady Found-English dance-folksong
12	The Three Ravens-Old English song (CD premiere)
13	Danny Deever (World Premiere)
14	Tribute to Foster-Based on a melody by Stephen Foster (CD premiere)

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Grainger was one of music's true originals. Folk-song collector, bandmaster, composer of quirkily original orchestral and choral music, his works have yet to be fully appreciated--or even cataloged. The problem was that he liked to keep his performance options open, and generally produced several versions of the same piece, some of which were complete rewrites (and therefore new works), while others were modest rescorings. The choral music largely consists of folk tune and popular song arrangements that Grainger collected on his travels through the English and Irish countryside. You owe it to yourself to hear them; they are, one and all, delightful. --David Hurwitz

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 4.94 x 0.45 inches; 0.71 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Philips
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 028944665727
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 20, 2007
Label ‏ : ‎ Philips
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000041DB
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #213,848 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #132 in Classical Ballads
- #142 in Folk Songs
- #11,494 in Folk (CDs & Vinyl)

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Patricia J Ram

Choir music

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 29, 2021

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VonStupp

Heartily sung Grainger choral music

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 18, 2020

Percy Grainger was a weird dude. This is most evident in his orchestrated choral music, here under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner leading his Monteverdi Choir and further aided by the English Country Gardiner Orchestra from 1996. To find the best price, you can compare among the four different releases of this same album: Danny Boy: Songs and Dancing Ballads of which there are two different covers, but also as Londonderry Air: The Music of Percy Grainger and the Gramophone Award presents The Music of Percy Grainger all released by Philips and identical in performance.

Grainger’s choral arranging of British Isles folk songs are thickly textured, often with complexly jazzy, chromatic part writing which is always intriguing, if not a bit unexpected. Even if the chorus is only ooh-ing or aah-ing, as it often does either behind solo singing or as a choral feature, Grainger never blandly makes the chorus merely accompaniment or background, and all of it is terribly difficult to perform. The 9-minute Bride’s Tragedy seems the apex of Grainger’s modernist, complex choral writing and orchestra work, with bouncy mixed-meters and challenging harmonies abounding.

Most of the choral numbers here are orchestrated, often by what Grainger terms as room music. This can be in the form of brass bands, chamber strings, percussion, five clarinets alone, any combination of individual winds, brass, and strings; plus harmonium is always an instrument he writes into this music as an option for performances. In this recording, the brass astounds in the Song of Solomon and the Merry Wedding, the thrumming of Shallow Brown is indeed quirky, and the homespun piping in the Scotch Reel is most toe-tappingly satisfying. This unusual instrumentation only adds to the bizarre cacophony of Grainger’s musical settings, instances where I can understand one reviewer’s two-star rating who says they wanted a pure choral style with simple accompaniment to showcase the attractive simplicity of these folksongs; Grainger will not give you this!

This idea is only perpetuated by this performance by the Monteverdi Singers based out of England. Far from a pure, homogenous sound in the English cathedral style, the Monteverdi Singers sing lustily in a rustic, ‘salt of the earth’ manner, full of character and rhythmic vigour with plenty of vibrato. It is a most exciting approach to this music, one that is constantly engaging and gives the music an electric immediacy built towards eccentric characterizations. Towards the end of the program, the chorus even break into accents during the barroom Lost Lady Found, the cockney Danny Deever, and the men’s chorus gives a full-throated Drunken Sailor. Of course, this suits much of the folk-song topics at hand, ones of gallows humour and tumescent sexuality alongside rousing sea chanties and minstrelsy. This is offset by the intimately lovely a cappella, modal Gaelic tune ‘Nighean’ and the titular County Derry, which Grainger's choral arrangement has no words.

The music is littered with vocal solos, here taken directly within the Monteverdi Singers, and while professional soloists would have been appreciated, the members add to the individualistic, rustic atmosphere. Grainger was enthusiastic for Stephen Foster in his time, and we get an anglicized Camptown Races, whose minstrelsy roots are a bit cringy today, but the lullaby midsection raises the musical material.

Percy Grainger’s choral music is still a relative rarity on record today, but there is surprising little overlap of songs between recordings, allowing fans of this music a strong library of his choral output without repetition. The tried and true recording is one led by Benjamin Britten on Decca from the 60’s and 70’s, an excellent recording sung by the Ambrosian Singers. Stephen Layton and Polyphony present Grainger’s Kipling songs and Jungle Book choral cycle on Hyperion which shows more of his jazzy choral writing with odd chamber instrumentations, and more recently, Andrew Davis gives more of his symphonic choral music on Chandos . For the completist, the late Sir Richard Hickox surveyed most of Grainger’s music, Volumes 3, 5, 9, 11, and 18 being dedicated solely to his choral music, also on Chandos, but hardly as characterful as it is portrayed under Gardiner.

Philips’ recording of Sir John Eliot Gardiner leading extroverted and entertaining performances of Grainger’s choral music is excellent for those looking for rustic singing and wryly-themed, complex choral writing. Even more appealingly, at 75 minutes, this is a lot of music and it all comes in good sound too. Highly Recommended!

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Dan Betelmann

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2013

This is an excellent sampling of Percy Grainger's compositions and arrangements for chorus and orchestra. I'm not a huge fan of that genre, so I can't compare these recordings to, say, those that help make up Chandos' multi-volume traversal of Grainger's music. In absolute terms in not relative ones, however, this release is a first-class effort. I confess I'm drawn more toward the more energetic and spritely selections, such as I'm Seventeen Come Sunday, Lost Lady Found, and the Scotch Strathspey & Reel. But there's no denying the introspective, plaintive yearning that one hears in renditions of Brigg Fair, Danny Boy and the like. It's also rather nice to hear some songs sung in dialect -- I take it to be Lincolnshire when it does happen. In any case, this is an exquisite album.

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I. Giles

Grainger was a maverick character and his music is compulsively unique

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 4, 2013

This well recorded collection of folk song arrangements from 1995 was awarded the Gramophone Choral Award for 1996 and there is no reason to doubt the justness of the award. Grainger had a distinctive voice so far as harmony and melody was concerned and he let his imagination run free with these songs and 'dancing ballades' as he called them.

The emphasis is on tweaking the ear and by constantly taking unexpected turns the music engages the imagination and sense of the strange, and even outrageous. The writing is equally inventive for both the singers and the accompanying orchestra/ensemble and is also clearly technically stretching. It is also clear that a great deal of fun was had by the performers.

There are a lot of items on this well-filled disc of 75 minutes. For me, the outstanding example of true long-term greatness is the extensive and emotionally demanding setting of 'Shallow Brown' which is delivered here with astonishing emotional commitment and power. No doubt everyone will have their particular favourites and there will be arrangements that will not appeal to all. Nevertheless this disc is probably impossible to improve on by any criteria and there will be little reason to record an alternative.

I would therefore suggest that this disc, full of strange twists and imaginative writing, is well worth collecting even if it is not played constantly. This is a disc that is unlikely to be matched, let alone bettered. Well worth the Choral Award that it earned in 1996.

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Andrew C. Mitchell

a great inheritance

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 7, 2014

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The sheer range and depth of these works is a testimony to the genius that was Percy Grainger. He worked over the uncut diamonds of folk music and produced things that are wonderful and lovely. His mind roved across Ireland, Scotland, America,The Faroe Islands and Denmark through the countryside of Lincolnshire and Somerset and to the Sailor's Sea -chanty and over several centuries. Here is music that is exhilerating and moving. I was completely unaware of his 'Love verses from the Song of Solomon.' In the works recorded here harmonies range from the most advanced to the most simple as required. This is music I think that should be in every primary school. It is a rich inheritance. The Monteverdi Choir reveals its greatness in singing here and there must be a hearty thank-you to all the musicians playing at the top of their game. I applaud everything that is here and wish that there were more concerts devoted to the music of Percy Grainger

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Laurent Brunner

à en perdre la tête... dans les chaumières de la campagne anglaise

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on January 10, 2014

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Voici Gardiner à son meilleur : la musique chorale de Percy Grainger sort de l'âme britannique, et de cette tradition chorale de "chanter ensemble", pour la joie comme la peine, et toujours avec le coeur. Autant dire du pain bénit pour Gardiner.

Il nous emmenène dans une magnifique découverte de ces musiques d'origine populaire poussées par Grainger à un niveau musical souvent somptueux, avec des accompagnements orchestraux magnifiquement colorés. C'est emporté en diable la plupart du temps, avec des moments d'ineffable profondeur (un ancrage terrien poignant), et tout est, faut-il-le dire, sublimement chanté.

On y entendra ce qui fait le caractère exceptionnel des films d'entre deux-guerres, mais aussi les réminiscences de toute une culture folk britannique autant qu'américaine, où la religion affleure sous chaque page. On y entend souvent ce qui nous interpelle dans les choeurs des opéras de Britten. On sent combien John Williams doit à Grainger, et le monde merveilleux et humain de Spielberg n'est finalement pas si éloigné de cette musique à écouter d'urgence. Un CD qui ouvre les oreilles, à vraiment ne pas manquer. Et Londonderry Air sera-t-il jamais mieux chanté, avec une si poignante emotion qu'on se croirait dans Autant en emporte le Vent?

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David Parr

Londonderry Air

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 4, 2013

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Excellent CD. Songs and orchestration beautifully performed. The kind of music that you can listen to over and over again. Would certainly recommend this product to those who enjoy this type of music.

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Lorraine Steeden

Percy Grainger CD

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 8, 2016

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Quite a difficult CD to track down. So happy to have done so through Amazon. Thank you.

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