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Jungle Book
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Track Listings
| 1 | Shallow Brown - David Wilson-Johnson |
| 2 | Jungle Book: The Fall Of The Stone - The Poyphony Orch/Stephen Layton |
| 3 | Jungle Book: Morning Song In The Jungle - The Poyphony Orch/Stephen Layton |
| 4 | Jungle Book: Night-Song In The JUngle - The Poyphony Orch/Stephen Layton |
| 5 | Jungle Book: The Inuit - The Poyphony Orch/Stephen Layton |
| 6 | Jungle Book: The Beaches Of Lukannon - The Poyphony Orch/Stephen Layton |
| 7 | Jungle Book: Red Dog - John Mark Ainsley |
| 8 | Jungle Book: The Peora Hunt - The Poyphony Orch/Stephen Layton |
| 9 | Jungle Book: Hunting-Song Of The Seeonee Pack - The Poyphony Orch/Stephen Layton |
| 10 | Jungle Book: Tiger! Tiger! - John Mark Ainsley |
| 11 | Jungle Book: The Only Son - Libby Crabtree/John Mark Ainsley/David Wilson-Johnson |
| 12 | Jungle Book: Mowgli's Song Against People - David Wilson-Johnson/James Gilchrist |
| 13 | Jungle Book: Good-Bye To Love - John Mark Ainsley |
| 14 | Jungle Book: Died For Love - Libby Crabtree |
| 15 | Jungle Book: The Power Of Love - John Mark Ainsley |
| 16 | Jungle Book: The Rival Brothers - The Poyphony Orch/Stephen Layton |
| 17 | Jungle Book: Six Dukes Went Afishin' - The Poyphony Orch/Stephen Layton |
| 18 | Jungle Book: The Sprig Of Thyme - Libby Crabtree/James Gilchrist |
| 19 | Jungle Book: Willow, Willow - John Mark Ainsley/Simon Fischer |
| 20 | Jungle Book: Recessional - The Poyphony Orch/Stephen Layton |
| 21 | Jungle Book: Lord Maxwell's Goodnight - John Mark Ainsley |
| 22 | Jungle Book: The Three Ravens - David Wilson-Johnson |
| 23 | Jungle Book: The Running Of Shindand - The Poyphony Orch/Stephen Layton |
| 24 | Jungle Book: Early One Morning - Libby Crabtree/David Wilson-Johnson |
| 25 | Jungle Book: The Love Song Of Har Dyal - Lesley Jane Rogers |
| 26 | Jungle Book: My Love's In Germanie - Libby Crabtree/John Mark Ainsley/David Wilson Johnson |
Editorial Reviews
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 is here recorded 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'.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 5.59 x 0.39 x 4.92 inches; 3.53 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Hyperion UK
- Date First Available : February 10, 2007
- Label : Hyperion UK
- ASIN : B000002ZXN
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #569,194 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #419 in Folk Songs
- #27,318 in Chamber Music (CDs & Vinyl)
- #30,782 in Folk (CDs & Vinyl)
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Grainger set the sea chantey "Shallow Brown" in 1910, and there are excellent competing digital recordings by Richard Hickox (Chandos) and John Eliot Gardiner (Philips). Layton has the edge, however, in the JUNGLE BOOK coupling and in using Grainger's unorthodox instrumentation (which ought not succeed, but does, powerfully) for "Shallow Brown": harmonium, guitar, mandola, mandolin, ukulele, piccolo, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, alto saxophone, horn, strings, piano, baritone, choir. This unique ensemble, thrumming away behind the voices singing the simple lyric, creates the illusion of a multi-voiced pipe organ, and the harmonium/mandolin combination gives the song special urgency and plaintiveness. The effect is very similar to hearing the late Jo Stafford sing her spine-tingling "Shenandoah" (not by accident Grainger had his antipodean take on that greatest American river song, and Polyphony included it on their 1994 Grainger prequel disc AT TWILIGHT).
Grainger the Aussie expat was quite taken by Kipling from 1898 on, assembling his JUNGLE BOOK settings incrementally over the next 60 years. They are mostly sung a cappella, although the odd "Shallow Brown" instrumentation creeps in slyly, and listeners will be (pleasurably) reminded more of Holst's CHORAL HYMNS FROM THE RIG-VEDA than of Charles Koechlin's impressionist LIVRE DE LA JUNGLE or Miklos Rozsa's fine score for the Korda film. The folk settings feature solos by Libby Crabtree, John Mark Ainsley and the outstanding baritone David Wilson-Johnson, and besides the love-song triptych there's a wonderful "Three ravens" and more Kipling in "Running of shindand" and his surprisingly moving "Recessional" (like Delius, Grainger was impious, but he loved his Kipling, and this anthem is nearly as fervent as "Shallow Brown").
Grainger specialists will be arrested by this programme, playing it as regularly as I do, and the composer would want special credit given the harmonium player Peter Wright and pianist Penelope Thwaites, both sounding particularly Graingeresque under Layton's leadership. Hyperion's reputation was consolidated through superior piano discs, but this is a no less remarkable choral achievement (with obbligato keyboards) and the digital engineering, by Antony Howell and Julian Millard, is notably immaculate.
Nonetheless, the music for The Jungle Book was written over a period of almost fifty years, but though the cycle is very variegated (various numbers employ very different forces, for instance) the long span over which the music was written shows up more in the variable quality than style - mostly because Grainger's music is so unpredictable anyways. Overall, however, it is a remarkable work, very much worth hearing though not among Grainger's most important works (it's no Warriors, for instance).
The program as a whole exhibits the range of Grainger's music, ranging from the ultrasentimental "Good-Bye to Love" and the rousing, deliberately banal but remarkably effective "Shallow Brown", to tartly humorous numbers (some of them in arrangements by other hands) to the plain weird, such as "Six Dukes went Afishin'". I have few qualms about the performance in generals, though the wide stylistic variety of the program and the substantial technical challenges - including several hilarious and ingenious vocal effects - inevitably makes some numbers more successful than others. "Shallow Brown" and "Died for Love" are highlights in this respect, though the marvelous "Willow, Willow" lacks a little bit in expressive range. Polyphony generally rises to the challenges magnificently, however, and if the textures sometimes verge on the dense this is probably primarily the composer's fault. The sound is good and overall this is a fascinating and recommendable release.
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