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Work

English dance : full orchestra

by Percy Grainger (1905, this version: 1925)

Audio Sample

Performance by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hickox from the CD Orchestral works.

Orchestral works.

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CD

Orchestral works.

Library shelf no. CD 374 [Available for loan]

Works for pianos.

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CD

Works for pianos.

Version: This product features the Trios: Keyboards version of this work

Library shelf no. CD 574 [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, this version: 1925

Duration: 9 min.

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