My freshman year of high school our concert band played this piece and to this day it still gives me the same chills it gave me all those years ago. Easily my favorite arrangement I’ve ever heard.
This is an absolutely gorgeous interpretation and performance. I have had this piece in my collection for over 40 years since starting to learn piano - if only I ever came close to this powerful and moving performance. Thank you so much - this recording will be played many times. Having just located my copy of the music, I might even have another go at learning it (with a bit of grand plagiarism from this recording...). Many thanks and regards from Sydney - David
It's really astoundingly beautiful how brilliant of an orchestrator Grainger was. To recall the fact that this is also an adaptation of a work for wind ensemble and to have such intricate voicings makes this piece so much more deep and lovely.
Couldn't agree more Matthew. As simple as this is to play notewise, to master the balance between the inner voices is very difficult indeed. Percy Grainger had this down to a fine art :)
Absolutely exquisite rendition of this piece. The clarity in the parts is so easy to hear, and your ability to bring out the melody is just wonderful. Bravo
How right you are. I tell my student that this is one of the most difficult things I have ever played. Why? The voicing. We are all trained to voice the tops of chords, NOT this note here, this note there.
I'm not sure if I had heard it before, but as soon as I did while watching 1952's ''Foghorn'', starring Toshiro Mifune, it stuck me by how good it was.
I love Penelope Thwaites' performances of other Grainger pieces, but she drags this out just too much (despite Grainger's 'don't drag', etc. instructions). Listen to the composer himself (on YT) to hear how he imagined it; yes, the rubato is extreme, but when the emotion needs to come out, he never holds it back, as Thwaites does.
My freshman year of high school our concert band played this piece and to this day it still gives me the same chills it gave me all those years ago. Easily my favorite arrangement I’ve ever heard.
That Db in 2nd last bar - tells a whole story in itself of loss, ages spent and so-be-it ... Well done!
This is an absolutely gorgeous interpretation and performance. I have had this piece in my collection for over 40 years since starting to learn piano - if only I ever came close to this powerful and moving performance. Thank you so much - this recording will be played many times. Having just located my copy of the music, I might even have another go at learning it (with a bit of grand plagiarism from this recording...). Many thanks and regards from Sydney - David
Now I'm going to have to dig out my copy! Though I'm going to have to fudge a lot to play it on my 61-note Yamaha keyboard....
Grainger was expert at piano voicing - wow
Absolutely wonderful. The way she colours those chords.
Very well played in such complex voicings! Chapeau.
what a moving arrangement and performance
so nice!!! A perfect encore piece actually
It's really astoundingly beautiful how brilliant of an orchestrator Grainger was. To recall the fact that this is also an adaptation of a work for wind ensemble and to have such intricate voicings makes this piece so much more deep and lovely.
Couldn't agree more Matthew. As simple as this is to play notewise, to master the balance between the inner voices is very difficult indeed. Percy Grainger had this down to a fine art :)
Beautiful. And extremely difficult.
This was beautifully played Penelope. Percy Grainger was such a master at bringing out the tune in the midst of such gorgeous notation.
Absolutely exquisite rendition of this piece. The clarity in the parts is so easy to hear, and your ability to bring out the melody is just wonderful. Bravo
Wonderful.
I hope to play this for my piano final this semester and for the piano recital
I was thinking the exact thing for myself!
That is, if I were a music student majoring in piano.
Still...
Wow she plays some of the notes so quietly I wonder if I’m just hearing overtones from other notes
A powerful and beautifully rendered version of this famous tune. Bravo, Penny, wherever you are.
How right you are. I tell my student that this is one of the most difficult things I have ever played. Why? The voicing. We are all trained to voice the tops of chords, NOT this note here, this note there.
I like it
Londonderry Air Danny Boy is brilliant
That was brilliant
how could anyone dislike this? this is amazing! thanks for uploading :D
I'm not sure if I had heard it before, but as soon as I did while watching 1952's ''Foghorn'', starring Toshiro Mifune, it stuck me by how good it was.
Is there a full sheet that I can read off of? Reading it every two measures is kind of hard...
Yes, I found the score here: imslp.org/wiki/Irish_Tune_from_County_Derry_(Grainger,_Percy)
well to the fore
5 people call it "Oh danny boy"
those
Pedal marks lmao
Fancy seeing you here haha I've listen to your Lamentations piece so many times...wonderful writing, sir!
@@joshuapinkham thanks! kind of you
I love Penelope Thwaites' performances of other Grainger pieces, but she drags this out just too much (despite Grainger's 'don't drag', etc. instructions). Listen to the composer himself (on YT) to hear how he imagined it; yes, the rubato is extreme, but when the emotion needs to come out, he never holds it back, as Thwaites does.
I see what you did there!
Beautiful melodic economy.
Absolutely fantastic
WONDERFULL
Bravo Penelope ! excellent voicing and dynamics. Totally conveys the spirit of this music
Beatiful air folk, beautiful play, Respect to Player,Penelope Thwaites, Arranger,Percy Grainger, and Origin Collector Jane Ross (died in 1879)
Do you have a pdf (or a link to it) for the sheet music?
Any possibility of doing his "Country Garden" this way?
Perfect voicings! I hear a lot of Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans in this beautiful piece!
Actually you hear a lot of Grainger in Jarrett and Evans
Bassin gang
reminds so of danny boy and colonial song
etude5 it is Danny boy.
Go to imslp.org and search for it.
This is really neat. Would you mind sending me a pdf of this? Or finale doc?
You are kidding, right? I certainly hope so.
Better at 1.25x speed (UA-cam shortcut Shift+>)
Pretty anodyne for a Grainer composition.
What is with those ugly pedal markings everywhere?
Grainger is really specific with his notation for some reason; in his opinion it wouldn't be the same without those markings.