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Composer of the Week: Percy Grainger

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

(1882-1961)
Pianist, folk song collector, experimenter, rebel, visionary....
Andrew Lyle explores aspects of the extraordinary Australian composer in conversation with Penelope Thwaites. 1: A Protest against Civilisation: Childhood and Kipling
Including Children's March, with Grainger himself as one of the pianists; a selection from The Jungle
Book sung by Polyphony, conducted by Stephen Layton ; and other Kipling settings sung by Stephen Varcoe with Penelope Thwaites (piano) and by the Monteverdi Choir, conductor John Eliot Gardiner.
Producer Andrew Lyle Discs
Repeated next Monday at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Lyle
Unknown:
Penelope Thwaites.
Conducted By:
Stephen Layton
Sung By:
Stephen Varcoe
Piano:
Penelope Thwaites
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner.
Producer:
Andrew Lyle
Source: Radio Times

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