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Percy Grainger

p, 1882-1961 AU, Melbourne
Musician / Composer / Arranger of Classical
A.k.a. George Percy Aldridge Grainger

Australian-American composer and pianist. He was also a folk music collector and arranger, educator, social and musical commentator, clothing designer and Free Music inventor. b. July 8, 1882 (Brighton, VIC, Australia) d. February 20, 1961 (White Plains, NY, USA)

     
Instruments
  • Piano
  • Harmonium
Genres
  • Classical
  • Folk
  • World
Popular Tracks   
Grainger / Orch. Artok: Country Gardens, BFMS 22 on British Light Classics by Various Artists
Country Gardens, BFMS 22 (Version for Wind Ensemble) on Grainger: Complete Music for Wind Band, Vol. 1 by Percy Grainger, Royal Norwegian Navy Band & Bjarte Engeset
Irish Tune from County Derry on Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger, Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry Junkin
Molly on the Shore on Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger, Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry Junkin
Lincolnshire Posy: II. Horkstow Grange on Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger, Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry Junkin
Harvest Hymn on English Seasons by Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Children's March, "Over the Hills and Far Away" on Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger, Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry Junkin
Lincolnshire Posy: VI. The Lost Lady Found on Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger, Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry Junkin
Lincolnshire Posy: I. Lisbon on Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger, Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry Junkin
Lincolnshire Posy: IV. The Brisk Young Sailor on Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger, Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry Junkin

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Discography



Title Artist Year Type
The Modern EraPercy Grainger2017Album
Piano WorksPercy Grainger, Leslie Howard With David Stanhope And Geoffrey Parsons2017Compil.
Folk MusicPercy Grainger - Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn2017Album
Works For SaxophoneUlrich Krieger - Henry Cowell & Percy Grainger2016Album
Percy Grainger Works for Large Chorus and OrchestraPercy Grainger, Andrew Davis, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Chamber Choir, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus2013Album
MothershipOhio University Wind Symphony, Andrew Trachsel, Alison Brown Sincoff - Mason Bates, George Gershwin, Percy Grainger, Michael Markowski, Robert Moran, Joel Puckett2012Album
Grainger EditionPercy Grainger - Richard Hickox, Penelope Thwaites2011Compil.
Jungle BookPercy Grainger - Polyphony, Stephen Layton2011Album
The Complete 78-rpm Solo Recordings (1908-1945)Percy Grainger2011Album
Trendsetters (Music For Wind Band)Paul Hindemith, Gustav Holst, Joseph Schwantner, Percy Grainger, The Peabody Conservatory Wind Ensemble, Harlan D. Parker2009Album
Works For Solo Piano 3Percy Grainger, Penelope Thwaites2004Album
The Music of Percy GraingerPercy Grainger, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir2003Album
Bach • Piano Transcriptions - 3Johann Sebastian Bach - Ignaz Friedman - Percy Grainger - William Murdoch / Piers Lane2003Album
Works For Solo Piano 2Percy Grainger - Penelope Thwaites2002Album
Rambles And ReflectionsPercy Grainger, Piers Lane2002Album
English Music For ViolaBenjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Rebecca Clarke, Percy Grainger, Arnold Bax, Frank Bridge, Paul Coletti, Leslie Howard2001Album
The World Of Percy GraingerPercy Grainger, Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields2001Album
Works For Solo Piano 1Percy Grainger - Penelope Thwaites2001Album
The Best Of Percy GraingerPercy Grainger2000Compil.
Works For Chamber Ensemble 2Percy Grainger, Della Jones, Martyn Hill, Stephen Varcoe, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields2000Album
Orchestral Works 3Percy Grainger - BBC Philharmonic, Richard Hickox2000Album
Works For Chamber EnsemblePercy Grainger - Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble1999Album
Works For PianosPercy Grainger - Penelope Thwaites, Wayne Marshall, John Lavender, Rhondda Gillespie, Antony Gray1999Album
The Orchestral Works Of Percy Grainger, Vol. 2Percy Grainger, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Conducted By John Hopkins1998Album
Works For Wind Orchestra 2Percy Grainger, Royal Northern College Of Music Wind Orchestra1998Album
Percy Grainger In PerformancePercy Grainger, Edvard Grieg, Robert Schumann1997Compil.
Works For Wind OrchestraPercy Grainger, Royal Northern College Of Music Wind Orchestra1997Album
Orchestral Works 2 (The Warriors)Percy Grainger - BBC Philharmonic, Richard Hickox1997Album
In A NutshellPercy Grainger / City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle1997Compil.
Orchestral WorksPercy Grainger1996Album
SchumannHarold Bauer - Percy Grainger1996Compil.
Works For Chorus And OrchestraPercy Grainger, Mark Padmore, Stephen Varcoe, Penelope Thwaites, The Joyful Company Of Singers, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox1996Album
Londonderry Air: The Music of Percy GraingerPercy Grainger, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir1996Album
Piano MusicPercy Grainger, Marc-André Hamelin1996Album
DebussyEugen D'Albert, George Copeland, Percy Grainger, Myra Hess, Robert Lortat, Paquita Madriguera, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Arthur Rubinstein, E. Robert Schmitz1996Compil.
Music For SaxophonesRascher Saxophone Quartet - Steve Reich, Tristan Keuris, Alexander Glazunov, Robert Starer, Erland Von Koch, Johann Sebastian Bach, Percy Grainger1995Album
Scenes From The Bavarian Highlands • Motets • PartsongsSir Edward Elgar • Gustav Holst • Frederick Delius • Percy Grainger / City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Simon Halsey1995Compil.
'At Twilight', Choral MusicPercy Grainger • Edvard Grieg / Polyphony, David Wilson-Johnson, Paul Agnew, Stephen Layton1995Album
Brigg Fair, Etc.Percy Grainger, Frederick Delius1995Compil.
The Planets / The WarriorsGustav Holst / Percy Grainger - Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner1995Album
British Composers - Music For Concert BandPercy Grainger, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Central Band Of The Royal Air Force, Eric Banks1994Compil.
English Music For ViolaPaul Coletti1994Album
Percy Grainger Plays - Volume IIPercy Grainger Plays Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, William Byrd, Charles Villiers Stanford1993Album
Music Of Percy GraingerPercy Grainger, Warwick Braithwaite, Sir Malcolm Sargent1993Album
Dished Up For Piano, Vol. 5Percy Grainger1992Compil.
Percy Grainger Plays Bach/Grainger, Bach/Liszt, Bach/Busoni, Schumann, Chopin, Grieg, Debussy, GraingerPercy Grainger Plays Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, Ferruccio Busoni, Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy1992Album
Grieg And His Circle Play GriegEdvard Grieg - Johanne Amalie Stockmarr, Arthur De Greef, Severin Eisenberger, Percy Grainger, Leopold Godowsky, Walter Gieseking1992Album
Fennell Conducts Grainger, Persichetti, & OthersFrederick Fennell, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Percy Grainger, Vincent Persichetti, Aram Khatchaturian, Walter S. Hartley, Bernard Rogers1991Compil.
Famous Folk-SettingsPercy Grainger, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Kenneth Montgomery1991Album
Fantasy on Gershwin's Porgy & BessPercy Grainger1991Album
Piano Music, Volume 1Percy Grainger, Leslie Howard1990Compil.
Scenes From West Side Story / Fantasy On George Gershwin's Porgy And Bess / Four Piece SuiteLeonard Bernstein / Percy Grainger / Richard Rodney Bennett - David Nettle & Richard Markham1988Album
Music Of Percy Grainger Dished Up For Piano By The ComposerPercy Grainger - Nigel Coxe1986Album
British Music For Concert Band, Album 2Percy Grainger ∙ Ralph Vaughan Williams ∙ Gordon Jacob ∙ B. Walton O'Donnell, The Central Band Of The Royal Air Force, Eric Banks1986Album
Salute To ScotlandPercy Grainger, Ronald Stevenson1985Album
Orchestral Works Volume Five: The Warriors, English Dance, Fisher's Boarding House, The Power Of Rome And The Christian HeartPercy Grainger, John Hopkins, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra1984Album
Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis, Adagio For Strings, Irish Tune From County Derry, Pavane, Gymnopedies Nos.1 And 3Ralph Vaughan Williams, Samuel Barber, Percy Grainger, Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré - Leonard Slatkin And Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra1981Album
The Orchestral Works Of Percy Grainger Vol. IIIPercy Grainger, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Conducted By John Hopkins1980Album
Piano Concerto No. 1 In B Flat MajorPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Percy Grainger / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra / John Hopkins1980Album
By Plane from Paris - London Wind Orchestra Denis WickFrancis Poulenc, Percy Grainger, Darius Milhaud1979Album
Free Rambles, Room-Music Tit-Bits And...Percy Grainger, Bournemouth Sinfonietta1979Album
Grainger On The Shore (Orchestral Music By Percy Grainger)Percy Grainger - Neville Dilkes, English Sinfonia1979Album
Wind MusicFrancis Poulenc / Percy Grainger / Darius Milhaud1979Album
The Historic Percy Grainger Piano Roll (1919) (Grieg: Concerto In A Minor) / Stokowski Conducts Grainger FavoritesPercy Grainger1978Compil.
Salute To Percy Grainger Vol. 2Percy Grainger, Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, Anna Reynolds, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, The Linden Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford1978Album
Percy Grainger A Selection of his Early Disc RecordingsPercy Grainger1978Album
Landmarks Of Recorded Pianism Volume 1 - Acoustic Recordings (1889-1924)Johannes Brahms, Ilona Eibenschütz, Edvard Grieg, Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Arthur Friedheim, Percy Grainger, Josef Hofmann, Aleksander Michałowski, Vladimir De Pachmann, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Leopold Godowsky, Josef Lhevinne1977Compil.
Piano Music for Two and Four HandsPercy Grainger, David Stanhope, Leslie Howard1977Album
Musicians Of Australia, Vol. 15 - Percy Grainger: Piano Music For Two Hands Vol. 1Percy Grainger, Leslie Howard1977Album
Percy Grainger Plays GriegPercy Grainger - Edvard Grieg1977Album
Country Gardens And Other Piano MusicDaniel Adni, Percy Grainger1976Compil.
Piano Concerto No. 2 - Paraphrase On "The Nutcracker" / Paraphrase On "Eugene Onegin" For Solo PianoPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Percy Grainger, Franz Liszt, Michael Ponti, The Prague Symphony Orchestra, Richard Kapp1974Album
Holst / Vaughan Williams / GraingerGustav Holst / Ralph Vaughan Williams / Percy Grainger / Eastman Wind Ensemble Conducted By Frederick Fennell1974Album
Percy Grainger Plays GriegPercy Grainger, Edvard Grieg1974Album
The Orchestral Works Of Percy Grainger, Vol. 1Percy Grainger, The Sydney Symphony Orchestra Conducted By John Hopkins1973Album
Legendary Pianists Of The Romantic Era Concert 2Josef Hofmann, Percy Grainger, Harold Bauer1973Album
Percy GraingerPercy Grainger, Vivian Dunn, Orchestra Of The Light Music Society1970Album
Percy Grainger Plays GriegPercy Grainger - Edvard Grieg1970Album
Percy Grainger Plays Schumann And LisztPercy Grainger - Robert Schumann / Franz Liszt1970Album
The Music Of Percy GraingerPercy Grainger, The Sydney Symphony Orchestra Conducted By John Hopkins1968Album
Percy Grainger Plays GraingerPercy Grainger1966Album
Country Gardens And Other Favorites By Percy GraingerPercy Grainger, Frederick Fennell, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1962Album
Country Gardens And Other Favorites By Percy GraingerPercy Grainger, Frederick Fennell, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1959Album
Country Gardens And Other Favorites By Percy GraingerPercy Grainger, Frederick Fennell, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1959Album
Country GardensPercy Grainger - Morton Gould conducting the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1952Single
Country GardensPercy Grainger - Morton Gould conducting the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1952Album
Cradle Song / Molly On The Shore (Irish Reel)Percy Grainger1928Album
Schumann: Etudes Symphoniques, Op. 13; Sonata in G Minor, Op. 22Percy Grainger1928Album
Sheep And Goat Walkin' To The Pasture / Gigue From First Partita / LiebestraumPercy Grainger1927Album
The Power Of Love / Gum-Suckers MarchPercy Grainger1927Album
Country Gardens / Norwegian Bridal ProcessionPercy Grainger1926Album
Scherzo, Op. 31, No. 2Percy Grainger — Frédéric Chopin1924Album
Cradle Song / Spoon RiverPercy Grainger1922Album
Molly On The Shore / Brahms Valse In A Flat / Juba DancePercy Grainger1920Album
Polish Dance E Flat Minor Opus 2 No. 1Percy Grainger1920Album
Hungarian FantasyPercy Grainger1919Album
Second Hungarian RhapsodyFranz Liszt, Percy Grainger1918Album
Piano SolosPercy Grainger1918Album
Partsongs / Folksongs For Chorus / Songs From 'The Jungle Book'Frederick Delius, Percy Grainger, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Simon HalseyAlbum
Selma Epstein Plays Percy Grainger Volume ISelma Epstein, Percy GraingerAlbum
Winds In Hi-FiFrederick Fennell, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Percy Grainger, Bernard Rogers, Darius Milhaud, Richard StraussAlbum
Clair De Lune / ToccataPercy GraingerAlbum
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