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Music on 2: The Music of Percy Grainger

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

The Australian composer is best known in this country by such pieces as Country Gardens and Handel in the Strand.
This programme shows Grainger's range as a composer, and includes folksong arrangements for wind and brass, vocal settings of Kipling and the Song of Solomon, and larger works for chorus, orchestra, and percussion with the Polyphonia Orchestra (conductor Bryan Fairfax), Ruth Nye (piano) and the Ambrosian Singers

(Colour)

Contributors

Composer:
Percy Grainger
Musicians:
The Polyphonia Orchestra
Conductor:
Bryan Fairfax
Pianist:
Ruth Nye
Singers:
The Ambrosian Singers
Lighting:
John Summers
Sound:
Adrian Stocks
Director:
William Fitzwater
Source: Radio Times

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