Hyperion Records
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CDH55236
(Originally issued on CDA66793)
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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Recording details: October 1994
St John-at-Hackney, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Meurig Bowen
Engineered by Simon Eadon
Release date: June 2006
Total duration: 73 minutes 11 seconds
Available for download on iTunes: Yes

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'This scalp-prickling, sometimes spine-chilling, disc should not be missed' (The Musical Times)

'Superior performances by Layton and Polyphony' (BB Music Magazine)

'This is a disc which will take a long time to put back on the shelf' (Choir & Organ)

Grainger/Grieg: At Twilight
Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)
British Folk-Music Settings  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
1
No 5: Irish tune from County Derry  [3:41]
Sea Chanty Settings  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
2
No 2: Dollar and a half a day 'A dollar and a half is a poor man's pay'  [3:32]
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Paul Agnew (tenor)
Sea Chanty Settings  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
3
Unnumbered: Shenandoah 'O Shenandoah I love your daughter'  [1:49]
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
4
Unnumbered: Stormy 'Old Stormy he is dead and gone'  [1:27]
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
British Folk-Music Settings  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
5
Unnumbered: The gypsy's wedding day 'My father is the King of the gypsies that is true'  [1:53]
British Folk-Music Settings  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
6
No 7: Brigg Fair 'It was on the fifth of August'  [2:54]
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Songs of the North  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
7
Unnumbered: Mo nighean dubh  [4:53]
David Gould (countertenor)
8
O mistress mine  [1:50]  Thomas Morley (1557/8-1602) & Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Four Psalms, Op 74  Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
9
No 1: How fair is thy face  [5:18]
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
10
No 2: God's Son hath set me free  [6:18]
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
11
No 3: Jesus Christ our Lord is risen  [7:18]
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
12
No 4: In heav'n above  [5:37]
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
13
Ave maris stella  [3:36]  Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Kipling Settings  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
14
No 13: Soldier, soldier  [3:27]
Libby Crabtree (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor)
British Folk-Music Settings  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
15
Unnumbered: Mary Thomson 'In Amsterdon in Derbyshire Mary Thomson she did dwell'  [2:31]
British Folk-Music Settings  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
16
No 30: Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon  [2:48]
17
Dalvisa  [0:59]  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
18
Australian up-country song  [2:03]  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
British Folk-Music Settings  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
19
Unnumbered: Near Woodstock Town  [2:34]
20
The Sussex mummer's Christmas carol  [1:46]  Anonymous - traditional, arr. Percy Grainger (1882-1961) & Dana Perna (b1958)
21
A song of Värmeland 'O Värmeland, thou fairest, thou best beloved land'  [2:38]  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
22
At twilight 'Away by the reefs of the Chilean Coast'  [4:19]  Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Andrew Carwood (tenor)