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Composer of the Week: Grainger

on BBC Radio 3

With Donald Macleod.
4: Scandinavia and America
The Scandinavian sagas were Percy's favourite stories as a child and the blue-eyed Nordic race became his ideal. When war broke out, he and his mother emigrated to America, where he joined a miltaryband.
Norwegian Polka (Scandinavian Suite)
Stephen Orton (cello), Hamish Milne (piano) Jutish Medley Penelope Thwaites, Wayne Marshall and John Lavender
(piano, six hands)
Faroe Island Song: Father and Daughter
Danish National Radio Choir and Orchestra, conductor Jes per Grove Jorgensen
The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, conductor Timothy Reynish Ramble on Love - from themes from
Strauss's "DerRosenkavalier"
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
Spoon RiverUlster Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery
Random Round Susan Gritton and Pamela Helen Stephen (sopranos), MarkPadmore (tenor), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Cello:
Stephen Orton
Cello:
Hamish Milne
Unknown:
Wayne Marshall
Piano:
John Lavender
Conductor:
Timothy Reynish
Piano:
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Piano:
Pamela Helen Stephen
Conductor:
Richard Hickox

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