The Grainger Edition, Volume 11 - Works for Chorus and Orchestra 4 (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 279 Mb | Total time: 64:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9721 | Recorded: 1998
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 279 Mb | Total time: 64:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9721 | Recorded: 1998
We switch from London to Denmark for this volume. Father and Daughter intricately mixes many solo voices and choir. The gaunt Kleine Variationen-forme is followed by the touching Song of Värmeland for choir. To a Nordic Princess is a lavishly grandiloquent piece first performed in the Hollywood Bowl as a love gift for his soon-to-be bride, Ella Ström. It verges on Richard Strauss at times. He was not averse to Strauss and wrote a piano Ramble on Rosenkavalier. There is an oddly subdued Stalt Vesselil. The very short choir piece Dalvisa is barely heard – a hummed vocalise. After such sensitivity comes the cheery The Crew of the Long Serpent.