MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: 'At Twilight' - Choral Music by Percy Grainger and Edvard Grieg

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PERCY GRAINGER / EDVARD GRIEG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: 'At Twilight' - Choral Music by Percy Grainger and Edvard Grieg
Polyphony with David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Paul Agnew (tenor) / Stephen Layton

[ Hyperion Helios / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 14 July 2006

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"Grainger's mastery of choral textures shines out of this wide-ranging collection of folk-song arrangements, each highly individual and memorable. Superior performances by Stephen Layton and Polyphony."
Five Stars BBC Music Mag (July 2006)

"Grainger's mastery of choral textures shines out of this wide-ranging collection of folk-song arrangements, each highly individual and memorable. Plus his friend Grieg's fimely scored religious settings. Superior performances by Stephen Layton and Polyphony."
Five Stars BBC Music Mag (July 2006)

"I thoroughly enjoyed this disc and I hope that many other collectors will derive equal pleasure from it."
(MusicWeb Nov 2006)

"In all honesty there isn't a performance on the whole disc that is less than first class. Tuning, balance, clarity and diction are all excellent and Layton and his singers serve both composers admirably. The recording is very good indeed, allowing just the right amount of resonance but never sacrificing clarity for atmosphere. With excellent notes and full texts, the presentation is up to the usual high standards of the Hyperion stable.
I thoroughly enjoyed this disc and I hope that many other collectors will derive equal pleasure from it."
(musicWeb Nov 2006)

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

Recorded in the Church of St John-at-Hackney, London, on 10-11 October 1994

Tracks:

GRAINGER
Irish Tune from County Derry
Dollar and a Half a Day
Shenandoah; Stormy
The Gypsy's Wedding Day
Brigg Fair
Mo nighean dubh
O Mistress Mine
Soldier, soldier
Mary Thomson
Ye banks and braes
Dalvisa
Australian Up-Country Song
Near Woodstock Town
The Sussex Mummers' Carol
A Song of Varmeland
At Twilight
GRIEG
Four Psalms, Op 74
Ave, Maris Stella