34.00 PLN

CD:

Nr kat.: NI8809
Label  : Nimbus Records

"What we do hear is detailed, very well recorded on a modern concert grand, and stylistically fascinating. It shows Grainger to have been a highly unorthodox pianist - wild and renegade in his attitudes to conventional keyboard decorum, chopping and lurching his way with spontaneity from phrase to phrase, and priapically rhythmic in almost everything he played. The results are invigorating ... These unique Nimbus reconstructions of the Grainger sound make most other performances of his music I have heard sound misguidedly conventional and tame. Controversial the piano rolls themselves may be: to my ears the sound that they produce is very much that of the real beast."

Terry Blain, Classic CD
Reviews "What we hear is detailed, very well recorded on a modern concert grand, and stylistically fascinating. It shows Grainger to have been a highly unorthodox pianist - wild and renegade in his attitudes to conventional keyboard decorum, chopping and lurching his way with spontaneity from phrase to phrase, and priapically rhythmic in almost everything he played. The results are invigorating ... These unique Nimbus reconstructions of the Grainger sound make most other performances of his music I have heard sound misguidedly conventional and tame. Controversial the piano rolls themselves may be: to my ears the sound that they produce is very much that of the real beast." Terry Blain, Classic CD "We have always been admirers of the Duo-Art player-piano recording system, and here Grainger's personality leaps out from the speakers, yet the original rolls were cut between 1915-1929! It is good to have such a winningly vigorous Country Gardens and such a characterful Shepherd's Hey, while Sheep and Goats Walkin' to the Pasture has rhythmical character of the kind that makes one smile...Grainger makes his arrangement of the Richard Strauss love-duet from Der Rosenkavalier sound intimately luscious and deliciously idiomatic. The recording is first class." The Penguin Guide