Percy Grainger was known during his lifetime as a virtuoso pianist and arranger of popular English folk song. His primary contribution to music, however, lies in his prolific output as a composer of expert and highly original works. Grainger's early years were spent in Melbourne where he studied first with his mother, and later with Louis Pabst. From 1895-1899 he attended the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany, and then settled in London in Read more 1901. The next 10 years or so were devoted to a combination of concert touring and folk song collection. Grainger's early reputation was as a brilliant and eccentric pianist, and it was this talent that not only provided his income for the rest of his life, but also brought him into contact with other composers. Grieg and Delius, in particular, had great influence on Grainger's development of a sympathy and sensitivity toward unique national and folk styles. In 1914, Grainger moved to New York, beginning a long career as a composer, arranger, collector of folk music, and educator; he became an American citizen in 1918. In 1925 and 1927 he collected and published over 200 Danish folk songs, and returned to Australia in 1924, 1926, and from 1934-1935 in order to establish a Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne devoted to ethnomusicological research. His final years were spent completing and arranging his earlier works and trying to develop a workable form of his "free music" using primarily theremins, one of the earliest electronic instruments. The project remained incomplete, and Grainger died embittered and in relative obscurity, known only for a handful of light works that he referred to derogatorily as his "fripperies."

Early in his life, Grainger rejected the central European tradition of Western classical music, seeking instead a "democratic" music that was more closely related to natural sounds, speech, and world music. In his quest to assimilate as much unique musical culture as possible, Grainger became one of the first ethnomusicologists to use the wax cylinder phonograph in the collection and transcription of indigenous music. His arrangements of many of these are among the best ever done, capturing not only the melodies and harmonies, but also the timbres, inflections, and performance styles of each individual piece. In his own compositions, Grainger experimented with nontraditional rhythms, forms, and instrumental combinations in an attempt to create what he called "free music." He also created a large body of more traditional works and arrangements intended for more popular consumption, motivated, no doubt, by his experience with the Edwardian music hall and later with the U.S. Army Band. Read less

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Shepherd's Hey - Grainger, Holst, Etc / Paramount Brass

Release Date: 09/24/2002 Label: Centaur Records
Catalog: 2547 Number of Discs: 1

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Grainger: Music for Saxophones

Release Date: 12/11/2015 Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8573228 Number of Discs: 1

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Grainger: Complete Music for Wind Band, Vol. 2 / Engeset, Royal Norwegian Navy Band

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8573680 Release Date: 04/13/2018 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Percy Aldridge Grainger, Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Josquin Des Préz ...
Performer: Joachim Carr, Hans Knut Sveen
Conductor: Bjarte Engeset
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Norwegian Navy Band

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Grainger: Complete Music for Wind Band, Vol. 1 / Engeset, Royal Norwegian Navy Band

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8573679 Release Date: 01/12/2018 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Percy Aldridge Grainger
Conductor: Bjarte Engeset
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Norwegian Navy Band
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Silence & Music / McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort

Label: Signum Classics Catalog: 490 Release Date: 10/06/2017 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells ...
Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort
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Bushes & Briars: Folk-songs For Choirs Books 1 & 2

Label: Msr Catalog: 1606 Release Date: 09/18/2017 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: John Rutter, Traditional, John Byrt, Sir David Willcocks ...
Performer: Michael [Bass Vocal] Popplewell, Karen [Soprano Vocal] Lukose, David Hartley, David [Tenor Vocal] Hunt ...
Conductor: Jeffrey Hunt

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Cliburn Gold 2017 - 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition / Sunwoo

Label: Decca Catalog: 002700802 Release Date: 08/18/2017 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Maurice Ravel, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Marc-André Hamelin, Franz Joseph Haydn ...
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Zoltan Kocsis A Tribute

Label: Hungaroton Catalog: 32803 Release Date: 06/02/2017 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Zoltán Kodály, Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninov, Frédéric Chopin ...
Performer: Zoltán Kocsis, Miklós Perényi, János Bálint, Péter Csaba ...
Conductor: János Rolla, Zoltán Kocsis
Orchestra/Ensemble: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Tomkins Vocal Ensemble Budapest

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Percy Grainger: Folk Music / Booth, Glynn

Label: Avie Catalog: 2372 Release Date: 04/21/2017 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Percy Aldridge Grainger
Performer: Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn

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The Key Collection: 3 Centuries of Rare Keyboard Gems

Label: Grand Piano Catalog: 75355 Release Date: 03/10/2017 Number of Discs: 3
Composer: Christian Gottlob Neefe, Daniel Gottlob Turk, Leopold Anton Kozeluch, Johann Baptist Vanhal ...
Performer: Susan Kagan, Michael Tsalka, Kemp English, Biliana Tzinlikova ...
Conductor: Kerry Stratton
Orchestra/Ensemble: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Invencia Piano Duo

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Christmas Clarinets / Estrin, University of Florida Clarinet Ensemble

Label: Mark Records Catalog: 52394 Release Date: 11/18/2016 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Leroy Anderson, Engelbert Humperdinck, Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ...
Performer: Scott Wilson, Elizabeth Druesedow, Jonathan Haas, Aaron Janosa ...
Conductor: Mitchell Estrin, John Watkins Jr., David Waybright
Orchestra/Ensemble: University of Florida Clarinet Ensemble

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Wind Band Masterworks, Vol. 7 / Rhea, Texas A&M University Wind Symphony

Label: Mark Records Catalog: 52357 Release Date: 09/30/2016 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Steven Bryant, Kenneth Alford, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johann Schop ...
Conductor: Timothy Rhea

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Cowell & Grainger: Works for Saxophones / Krieger

Label: Mode Catalog: 293 Release Date: 08/05/2016 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Percy Aldridge Grainger, Henry Cowell
Performer: Fabian Muller, Christoph Enzel, Frank Ziegert [aka Frank Z], Ruth Velten ...
Conductor: Charles Peltz
Orchestra/Ensemble: The Percy Saxophone Ensemble, Intersax, New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble

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The Magnificent Steinway / Hyperion Knight

Label: First Impression Music Catalog: 97 Release Date: 03/18/2016 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Johann Pachelbel, Johann Strauss Jr., Aram Khachaturian, Traditional ...
Performer: Hyperion Knight

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Grainger: Music for Saxophones

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8573228 Release Date: 12/11/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Percy Aldridge Grainger, Claude Le Jeune, Guillaume de Machaut, Johann Sebastian Bach ...
Performer: Joyce Griggs, Casey Dierlam

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The Music Lover's Grainger

Label: Altissimo Catalog: 4042 Release Date: 11/13/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Percy Aldridge Grainger
Conductor: Michael J. Colburn
Orchestra/Ensemble: United States Marine Band

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The CBSO Years / Rattle

Label: Warner Classics Catalog: 552758 Release Date: 10/09/2015 Number of Discs: 52
Composer: Leos Janácek, Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill, Ralph Vaughan Williams ...
Performer: Felicity Palmer, Ameral Gunson, John Mitchinson, Malcolm King ...
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Orchestra/Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Christ Church Cathedral Choir Men and Boys ...

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Orchestral Concert

Label: Divine Art Catalog: 28554 Release Date: 09/11/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Robert Nelson, Peter Lieuwen, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Thomas Fortmann
Performer: Andrzej Grabiec
Conductor: Franz Anton Krager

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Memories & Variations

Label: Phoenix Park-kim Catalog: 5638553852 Release Date: 09/03/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Percy Aldridge Grainger, Earl Wild, John C. Griffin, Dave Brubeck ...
Performer: Phoenix Park-kim

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Martin Jones - 75th Birthday Tribute

Label: Nimbus Catalog: 1718 Release Date: 06/09/2015 Number of Discs: 4
Composer: Carl Czerny, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, Anatole Liadov ...
Performer: Martin Jones, Richard McMahon, Adrian Farmer
Conductor: William Boughton

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My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice

Label: Gothic Records Catalog: 49294 Release Date: 05/12/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Strauss ...
Performer: Peter Richard Conte, Andrew Ennis

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Inaugural

Label: Valor Brass Catalog: 5638482782 Release Date: 05/09/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi, Darius Milhaud, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Victor Ewald ...
Performer: Valor Brass

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Grieg: Cello Sonata; Grainger: Scandinavian Suite / Brantelid, Hadland

Label: Bis Catalog: 2120 Release Date: 04/14/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Edvard Grieg, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Carl Nielsen
Performer: Andreas Brantelid, Christian Ihle Hadland, Lars Bjornkjaer
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British Classics / Central Band Of The Royal Air Force

Label: Chandos Catalog: 10847 Release Date: 03/31/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Ernest Tomlinson ...
Performer: Jonathan Hill
Conductor: Duncan Stubbs

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Adirondack Songs

Label: Mark Masters Catalog: 51320 Release Date: 02/10/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Scott Lindroth, Chen Yi, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Timothy Kramer ...
Performer: Ethan Cypress, Ryan Sparkes, Andrew Lammly, Mark Carr
Conductor: Brian K. Doyle
Orchestra/Ensemble: The Crane Wind Ensemble

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Carnival of the Animals / John Morris Russell, Cincinnati Pops

Label: Fanfare Cincinnati Catalog: FC-004 Release Date: 11/11/2014 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns, Recorded Sound, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Leonard Bernstein ...
Performer: Ilya Finkelshteyn, Randy Bowman, Jonathan Gunn
Conductor: John Morris Russell
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cincinnati Pops

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Deck The Halls / Susanna Andersson, Little Venice Ensemble

Label: Stone Records Catalog: 8044 Release Date: 11/11/2014 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Traditional, Antonio Vivaldi, Leroy Anderson, Harold Edwin Darke ...
Performer: Suanna Andersson
Orchestra/Ensemble: Little Venice Ensemble

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