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Performance by Penelope Thwaites, Wayne Marshall, John Lavender from the CD Works for pianos. |
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CD
Orchestral works.
Version: This product features the Full orchestra version of this work
Library shelf no. CD 374 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Colonial Song is Grainger's love song to his native Australia. Based on an original tune first thought of in 1905, Grainger described this work as being his attempt at writing a song in which he wished to express feelings aroused by thoughts of the scenery and people of his native country and to write a melody as apposite to these as Stephen Foster's songs are to rural America. Grainger endows his rich melody - the opening of which he acknowledges as being influenced by Brahms - with a folk-song-like flexibility adding counter-melodies, inner harmonies and a myriad of harmonic digressions which carry the listener along on a tide of emotional heights.
— Barry Peter Ould
Work Details
Year: 1905
Instrumentation: 3 pianos.
Duration: 10 min.
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