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Composer of the Week: PercyGrainger (1882-1961)

BBC Radio 3
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1/5. Introducing
Percy Donald Macleod looks beyond the sensational aspects of Grainger's life to discover a musician who desperately wanted to be taken seriously. Traditional, arr Grainger Country Gardens Percy Grainger (piano)
My Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox Grainger Hill Song No 1
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, conductor Clark Rundell Eigar, arr Grainger Nimrod
Grainger Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky's Flower Waltz (The Nutcracker) Martin Jones (piano) Jungle-Book Verses Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, conductor Richard Hickox The Immovable Do BBC Philharmonic, conductor Richard Hickox
Producer Chris Taylor Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Percy Donald MacLeod
Piano:
Percy Grainger
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Clark Rundell
Unknown:
Grainger Nimrod
Unknown:
Grainger Paraphrase
Piano:
Martin Jones
Unknown:
St Martin
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Producer:
Chris Taylor
Source: Radio Times

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