Cover: Front illustration by Roland Piper (b?)
Hyperion CDH55433 · February 2011
Grainger - Jungle Book & other choral works
Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)
- GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE
- GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE / CRITICS' CHOICE
Press
Fanfare USA1996When I was going through a conventionally turbulent adolescence in the peaceful New York suburb of White Plains, little did I know that Percy Grainger also lived there. I suspect that the music teachers in my junior and senior…Read the review 
Gramophone Magazine1996Here now is the second disc in recent months to bring us face to face with Grainger. His music (or such music as we have in both of these recitals) resembles what I imagine to have been the effect of his physical presence. He…Read the review 
The Age, Melbourne1996The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt, until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows." So wrote Percy Grainger, a composer whose music we normally associate with…Read the review 
The Chicago Tribune1996Collections of the music of Percy Grainger usually emphasize its energy and spriteliness. Not this one. Preceding the first complete recording of his choral settings from Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book" is a "sea shanty" filled…Read the review - Diapason France1996Aprés la belle anthologie de Gardiner (Philips), ce superbe album vient confirmer l’extraordinaire intuition de Grainger pour l'écriture chorale. Il met aussi en lumière une profonde affinité avec Kipling. Une infatigable…Read the review
- Fono Forum, Germany1996Hierzulande ist der amerikanische Musen-Allrounder Percy Grainger (1882-1961) bestenfalls als exzentrischer Wanderer zwischen den Welten bekannt. In angelsächsischen Gefilden hingegen hat er sich einen gewissen Namen bewahrt…Read the review
- Soundscapes Australia1996A capella singing at its very finestRead the review
Classica Répertoire France1996Le vaste cycle Jungle Book occupa Grainger pendant rien moins que cinquante-neuf ans ; exactement de 1898 à 1947 ! C'est dire l’intérêt qu'il portait aux textes magnifiques des deux Livres de la Jungle de Kipling. Le compositeur…Read the review
Recorded: January 1996
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: February 2011
Total duration: 71 minutes 59 seconds
Track list
- Shallow Brown Shaller Brown you're goin' ter leave mePercy Grainger (1882-1961)6'04
- Jungle Book: The fall of the stone By the hoof of the wild goat uptossed from the cliff where she lay in the sunPercy Grainger (1882-1961)2'11
- Jungle Book: Morning song in the jungle One moment past our bodies cast no shadow on the plainPercy Grainger (1882-1961)2'50
- Jungle Book: Night-song in the jungle Now Chil the Kite brings home the night that Mang the Bat sets freePercy Grainger (1882-1961)0'48
- Jungle Book: The Inuit The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the snowPercy Grainger (1882-1961)2'17
- Jungle Book: The beaches of Lukannon I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I am old!)Percy Grainger (1882-1961)3'23
- Jungle Book: Red Dog For our white and our excellent nights, for the nights of swift runningPercy Grainger (1882-1961)1'11
- Jungle Book: The peora hunt Pit where the buffalo cooled his hidePercy Grainger (1882-1961)0'40
- Jungle Book: Hunting-song of the Seeonee pack As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belledPercy Grainger (1882-1961)1'19
- Jungle Book: Tiger! Tiger! What of the hunting, hunter bold?Percy Grainger (1882-1961)1'19
- Jungle Book: The only sonPercy Grainger (1882-1961)4'40
- Jungle Book: Mowgli's song against people I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vinesPercy Grainger (1882-1961)3'41
- Good-bye to loveAlan Gibbs (b1932)3'54
- Died for love I wish my baby it e was bornAlan Gibbs (b1932)1'24
- The power of love A green-growing tree in my father's orchard standsAlan Gibbs (b1932)4'53
- The Rival Brothers On his farm lived a bonder freeAlan Gibbs (b1932)1'03
- Six dukes went afishin'Alan Gibbs (b1932)2'19
- The sprig of thyme Wunst I had a sprig of thymeDana Perna (b1958)2'35
- Willow, willow The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore treeDana Perna (b1958)3'57
- Recessional God of our fathers, known of oldDana Perna (b1958)3'58
- Lord Maxwell's goodnight Adieu, Madame, my mother dear, but and my sisters three, O!David Tall (b1941)2'48
- The Three Ravens There were three ravens sat on a treeDavid Tall (b1941)4'02
- The running of shindand There's a convict more in the Central JailDavid Tall (b1941)1'41
- Early one morningDavid Tall (b1941)2'51
- The love song of Har Dyal Alone upon the housetops to the NorthDavid Tall (b1941)2'14
- My love's in GermanieDavid Tall (b1941)3'57
Recording details from Hyperion Records.