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| Artist Focus | ...Conductor Simon Rattle begins the programme with La vallee des cloches from Ravel's Miroirs orchestrated by PERCY GRAINGER ... |
| Choir, The | ...Stephen Layton joins Aled Jones to champion the music of PERCY GRAINGER - a misunderstood composer, he says, who deserves special attention in the choral world.... |
| Discovering Music | ...Stephen Johnson joins the members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christopher Austin and the traditional folk singer Martin Carthy for a look at the imaginative ways in which PERCY GRAINGER and Ralph Vaughan-Williams have used folk song material in their compositions. The programme includes a complete performance of Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus by Vaughan-Williams.... |
| Dots On The Landscape | ...Featuring the voices of PERCY GRAINGER, Brian Allison, Ros Bandt, Stephen Banfield, Warren Burt, Naomi Cass, Gerald Gentry, Wilfrid Mellers, Vincent Plush, Peter Sculthorpe, Alessandro Servadei, Roger Smalley and Martin Wesley-Smith.... |
| Grainger | ...The BBC Philharmonic under Richard Hickox play PERCY GRAINGER's `Green Bushes' and `Lord Maxwell's Goodnight'.... |
| Iain Burnside | ...Iain explores Australian music. From ancient songlines to PERCY GRAINGER, the country has created its own musical sound, as well as giving us some of today's leading musicians including Joan Sutherland, Charles Mackerras and Yvonne Kenny.... |
| Private Passions | ...His choices include extracts from Berlioz's Les troyens; Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Britten's The Turn of the Screw, Tippett's A Child of Our Time, and PERCY GRAINGER's The Warriors.... |
| Singing In The Dark, Back To Brigg Fair | ...Alison Brackenbury draws connections between Frederick Delius, PERCY GRAINGER and Edward Thomas, via Joseph Taylor, the Lincolnshire farm worker whom Grainger first heard singing Brigg Fair in 1905. Grainger collected the tune, made a choral arrangement of it and gave it to Delius who recast it as Brigg Fair: English Rhapsody.... |