Grainger Edition, Volume 15: Orchestral Works 3

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PERCY GRAINGER
Grainger Edition, Volume 15: Orchestral Works 3
BBC Philharmonic / Richard Hickox

[ Chandos Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 1 September 2000

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"Hickox secures a set of performances that are simply past praise in their combination of stylish swagger and heartwarming commitment to the cause. Wonderful Chandos sound, too, irrepressibly vivid. Terrific stuff!" Gramophone

"More infinitely inventive and colourful music in this fascinating Percy Grainger series. Another composer who finds in Richard Hickox a perfect advocate." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Awards Issue 2000)

Richard Hickox is one of Britain's leading conductors, recipient of the 1995 Philharmonic Society Music Award, three Gramophone Awards, the Diapason d'Or, the Deutsche Schalplattenpreis and a Grammy (for Britten's Peter Grimes). He is founder and Music Director of the City of London Sinfonia and (with Simon Standage) of Collegium Musicum 90, Associate Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Emeritus of the Northern Sinfonia.

Operatic engagements have included Los Angeles Opera, Rome Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, Opera North and English National Opera. He has guest conducted in Washington, San Francisco, Dallas, Tokyo (New Japan Philharmonic), and the radio orchestras of Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Paris (Orchestre philharmonique), the Berlin Symphony, Residentie Orchestra The Hague, and the Camerata Academica Salzburg at the Vienna Easter Festival.

Richard Hickox records exclusively for Chandos, for whom he celebrated his one hundredth recording in 1997. Future plans include works by Grainger, Rubbra, Bruch, Vaughan Williams, Haydn, Delius and Schmidt.

Tracks:

Green Bushes (Passacaglia on an English folk-tune) (1905/6 version)
Hill-Song No. 2
The Merry King
Eastern Intermezzo
Colonial Song (1919 version)
Spoon River
Lord Maxwell's Goodnight
The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart
The Immovable Do (The Cyphering C)
Irish Tune from County Derry (County Derry Air)
Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon
English Dance No. 1