CDA67279 - Disc 1 Track 2 - Now, oh now I needs must part

Now, oh now I needs must part

composer

1597; A Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres; tune from The Frogs Galliard

arranger

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

1935; Free Settings of Favourite Melodies No 5

Recordings

Dowland & Campion: It fell on a summer's day
Ian Partridge (tenor), Jakob Lindberg (lute)

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CDH88011 Helios (Hyperion's budget label) — Archive Service Only

Dowland: Awake, sweet love
James Bowman (countertenor), David Miller (lute), The King's Consort

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CDH55241 Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Dowland: Lute Songs; Britten: Nocturnal
Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Craig Ogden (guitar)

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CDA67648

English Ayres & Duets
The Camerata of London

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Grainger: Rambles and Reflections
Piers Lane (piano)

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CDH55454 Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Details

The Camerata of London

Track 10 on CDA66003 [2'45] Archive Service Only Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain
English

Mark Padmore (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Track 23 on CDA67648 [6'12] Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain
English

James Bowman (countertenor), David Miller (lute)

Track 16 on CDH55241 [5'16] Helios (Hyperion's budget label) Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain
English

Piers Lane (piano)

Track 2 on CDH55454 [4'28] Helios (Hyperion's budget label) Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Schott & Co Ltd

Ian Partridge (tenor), Jakob Lindberg (lute)

Track 20 on CDH88011 [4'36] Helios (Hyperion's budget label) — Archive Service Only Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain
English

Now, oh now I needs must part

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For numbers 5 and 6 in his series of Favourite Melodies, Grainger turned to an air by John Dowland (1563–1626). Now, oh now I needs must part inspired Grainger to make not only two piano versions (concert and easy) but also an extended ‘ramble’ for tenor solo and wind band, which he called Bell Piece. This concert version (FSFM No 5) dates from his Australian trip of 1935, and was written at ‘Claremont’, the home of his Aunt Clara in Adelaide. (The easy version, FSFM No 6—containing no big stretches, was written out in Segeltorp, Sweden, the following year.) In both piano settings the Dowland melody is heard twice: the first time with harmonies almost identical to the original lute accompaniment but adapted to pianistic technique, the second time with free harmonies and a tail-piece (coda) of Grainger’s own devising. The song was one that Grainger particularly liked to play and sing before retiring to bed.

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Details for CDA67279 track 2

Artists

Piers Lane (piano)

ISRC

GB-AJY-02-27902

Duration

4'28

Recording date

9 April 2001

Recording venue

Henry Wood Hall, London, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Amanda Hurton

Recording engineer

Tony Faulkner

Hyperion usage

Grainger: Rambles and Reflections (CDA67279)
Disc 1 Track 2
Release date: June 2002
Deletion date: March 2011
Superseded by CDH55454
Grainger: Rambles and Reflections (CDH55454)
Disc 1 Track 2
Release date: November 2011
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Hyperion Records