(21CD)葛人傑: 60週年紀念大全集
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Released to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the death in 1961 of Percy Grainger, The Complete Grainger Edition contains all twenty-one Chandos albums of his works in a luxurious boxed set. The Australian-born composer and pianist was one of music's most original voices and his compositions, especially his arrangements of folksongs, include some of the world's most well-loved pieces. He studied piano from an early age and, by the time he reached the age of twenty, had already thought out or formulated the majority of his compositions. The following years saw him feverishly reworking and re-arranging these pieces for different forces; in fact it was Grainger who conceived the idea of 'elastic' scoring: a work having an almost limitless number of performable versions, all showing a wonderful sense of instrumental colouring. An enthusiastic participant in the English folksong movement, Grainger collected more than 500 folksongs, on which he drew both for his impressive original works and for his imaginative arrangements, 'Country Gardens' and 'Molly on the Shore' being among the best known. Towards the end of his life, Grainger became fascinated with the idea of 'Free Music', music not limited by time or pitch intervals. The mechanical devices he created in partnership with the scientist Burnett Cross are today regarded as crude forerunners to the modern electronic synthesiser.

PERCY GRAINGER
(1882-1961)
Compact Disc One
CHAN9493 Orchestral Works I
Compact Disc Two
CHAN9584 Orchestral Works II
Compact Disc Three
CHAN9839 Orchestral Works III
Compact Disc Four
CHAN9499 Works for Chorus and Orchestra I
Compact Disc Five
CHAN9554 Works for Chorus and Orchestra II
Compact Disc Six
CHAN9653 Works for Chorus and Orchestra III
Compact Disc Seven
CHAN9721 Works for Chorus and Orchestra IV
Compact Disc Eight
CHAN9987 Works for Unaccompanied Chorus
Compact Disc Nine
CHAN9549 Works for Wind Orchestra I
Compact Disc Ten
CHAN9630 Works for Wind Orchestra II
Compact Disc Eleven
CHAN9746 Works for Chamber Ensemble I
Compact Disc Twelve
CHAN9819 Works for Chamber Ensemble II
Compact Disc Thirteen
CHAN9730 Songs for Mezzo-soprano
Compact Disc Fourteen
CHAN9610 Songs for Tenor
Compact Disc Fifteen
CHAN9503 Songs for Baritone
Compact Disc Sixteen
CHAN9702 Works for Piano
Compact Disc Seventeen
CHAN9895 Works for Solo Piano I
Compact Disc Eighteen
CHAN9919 Works for Solo Piano II
Compact Disc Nineteen
CHAN10205 Works for Solo Piano III
Compact Disc Twenty
CHAN10455 Transcriptions for Wind Orchestra
Compact Disc Twenty One
Chsa 5121 Works for Large Chorus & Orchestra