Hyperion Records | Grainger/Grieg: At Twilight

CDA66793
Superseded by CDH55236

Recording details: October 1994
St John-at-Hackney, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Meurig Bowen
Engineered by Simon Eadon
Release date: May 1995
Total duration: 73 minutes 11 seconds
Available for download on iTunes: No

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

'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)