Composer: Percy Grainger
Performer: John Mark Ainsley, David Wilson-Johnson, Polyphony
Conductor: Stephen Layton
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDH55433
Release: 1996
Size: 241 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Shallow Brown
Jungle Book
02. I. The Fall of the Stone
03. II. Morning Song in the Jungle
04. III. Night-Song in the Jungle
05. IV. The Inuit
06. V. The Beaches of Lukannon
07. VI. Red Dog
08. VII. The Peora Hunt
09. VIII. Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
10. IX. Tiger! Tiger!
11. X. The Only Son
12. XI. Mowgli’s Song Against People
13. Goodbye to Love (Arr. Gibbs)
14. Died for Love
15. The Power of Love
16. The Rival Brothers
17. Six Dukes Went Afishin’
18. The Sprig of Thyme (Arr. Perna)
19. Willow, Willow
20. Recessional
21. Lord Maxwell’s Goodnight (Arr. Tall)
22. The Three Ravens
23. The Running of Shindand
24. Early One Morning (Arr. Tall)
25. The Love Song of Har Dyal
26. My Love’s in Germanie
Harmonium, four guitars, two mandolas, two mandolins, two ukuleles, piccolo, three clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, two alto saxophones, horn, strings, piano, baritone and choir: and that’s just the scoring for one piece, the famous sea shanty Shallow Brown.
Grainger’s Jungle Book cycle was recorded here (for the original Hyperion release) for the first time. The eleven contrasting movements vividly portray the sentiments of Kipling’s poetry and Grainger wrote of the cycle that it was ‘composed as a protest against civilization’.