Coates & Grainger Country Gardens

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Eric Coates

Label: Living Presence

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 64

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Catalogue Number: 434 330-2MM

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Country gardens (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
(George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
Frederick Fennell, Conductor
Shepherd's Hey (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
(George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
Frederick Fennell, Conductor
Colonial Song (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
(George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
Frederick Fennell, Conductor
Children's March: Over the Hills and Far Away (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
(George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
Frederick Fennell, Conductor
(The) Immovable Do (or the Ciphering C) (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
(George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
Frederick Fennell, Conductor
Mock Morris (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
(George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
Frederick Fennell, Conductor
Handel in the Strand (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
(George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
Frederick Fennell, Conductor
Irish Tune from County Derry (Londonderry Air) (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
(George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
Frederick Fennell, Conductor
Spoon river (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
(George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
Frederick Fennell, Conductor
My Robin is to the greenwood gone (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
(George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
Frederick Fennell, Conductor
Molly on the shore (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
(George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger, Composer
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
Frederick Fennell, Conductor
(The) Three Elizabeths Eric Coates, Composer
Eric Coates, Composer
Frederick Fennell, Conductor
London Pops Orchestra
Certainly no complaints about the orchestral playing on this immensely enjoyable Grainger programme. Fennell coaxes some typically beefy, big-hearted sounds from his enthusiastic Eastman-Rochester forces, and his fresh-faced conducting betokens a genuine affection for this repertoire. About the Mercury recording I'm less sure, though: the internal clarity and range on these 1959 tapes remain remarkable (even if balance is, in truth, closer than ideal), but violin timbre is distinctly wiry and a certain lack of ambient glow does prove somewhat tiring on the ear after a while.
The lively Coates coupling, set down some six years later within Watford Town Hall, sounds rather more congenial. This, too, is accorded delightful treatment, with a memorable oboe solo in ''Springtime in Angus'' (one of Coates's most indelible tunes—which is certainly saying something!). Ignore my technical protestations: what we have here is yet another winner from the vintage Mercury stable.'

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