Percy Grainger plays Irish folk song: "Maguire's Kick"

[robertilicous]

(a thousand whips echo from his basement every night) waachack!!!!!! waaachack!!!

uhhhhh!!!

[whitacrefan17]

Its him

[paulostroff99]

Awesome!TY.

[kukral]

Now I understand why his Duo-Art piano roll recordings sound the way they do! Amazing performance.

[lovesGenet]

He is very popular in england.Whenand WHERE this FILM!!!This man was soooo famous .I've never seen mention of a film .He is still young & cute.UNBELIEVABLE find. HEAVEN IS SURELY at youtube.WONDROUS. Solomon,Curzon Michelangeli.!!!

[paulprocopolis]

A truly fascinating - if all too brief - bit of film footage. Many thanks, I was riveted!

[webaroos]

The wonder of YT, at a click you see something you might never see, ever, and here is Grainger playing, have never seen him perform before.

[drumbo2002]

"attributted to the fact that his mother used to whip him as a child. "

I seen to recall that it was his father she horsewhipped as he had given her a nasty STD. PG witnessed all of this.

I'll dig out the books and get back.

[brianCIM]

@drumbo2002 yes. his father gave his mother syphilis.

[emoClarinetist]

Oh, it was more than just a fetish.

It was sexual fantasies. So many things were warped inside of his brain. ^-^ i love him because he reminds me of myself. :D

Him and his mother were VERY close. But she committed suicide jumping out the window of george's manager's office. she left him a letter saying she couldn't stand the emotional/mental stress anymore because of the incest relationship between her and her son. Also, Edvard Grieg and Grainger had it going on there for a while. ^_~

[evifnoskcaj]

Not true. He did love his mother, but his mother killed herself because of FALSE ACCUSATIONS about her having a sexual relationship with her son. You should more carefully read Wikipedia next time "emo" clarinetist.

Oh and his "fettishes" were probably psychologically attributted to the fact that his mother used to whip him as a child. His love for his mother (which was NOT a sexual relationship) adversly caused his love for flagellation.

[redsox14048]

@evifnoskcaj no offense but ive talked to a ton of music historians who support the sexual relations theory, i wouldn't believe everything off wiki. but there was apparently other issues as well.

[evifnoskcaj]

@redsox14048 Wikipedia was not my only source, which was one of my points. I honestly could care less about his personal life if all he had was a liking to BDSM. He was no where close to Wagner's messed up life, and besides Wagner hurt far more people than Grainger ever could due to his "problems". Grainger definitely trumps Wagner's dangerous religious beliefs as well (to spell it out for you).

[redsox14048]

@evifnoskcaj haha alright man

[evifnoskcaj]

@redsox14048 Wait...that's it?

[LiveTalkNow]

@evifnoskcaj I have seen his whip collection IRL and may I say that it is fucked, sexual or not.

[drumbo2002]

Have you read the John Bird book?

Or the volumes of his letters by Kay Dreyfus?

Great pictures in all of them.

[brianCIM]

i own 2 books of his letters and they reveal one of the most fascinating minds i have ever encountered. NO book of letters have fascinated me the way grainger's do. every page is teaming with his totally original genius. i couldn't put them down. they are real page-turners. unfortunately they are out of production but i happened to borrow them from the library and never returned them!

[largemoose]

"Great composer, with REALLY unusual fettishes.

I've heard it all from my old music teacher, & from my tuba teacher. "

beyond his sexual fetishes (which are odd even by BDSM standards), he did alot of other very unusual things (i.e. wearing the same clothing day in and day out)

[emoClarinetist]

and also he wore his favorite formal attire during the evening when composing in his own spare time. ^-^

[drumbo2002]

Sadly the narrator of this piece sounds like a total asswipe.

[Wolfytrot]

Percy Grainger PWNS!!!

[MEpianist]

so true -- wheres the whole vid???????

[brianCIM]

he was SO underrated as a pianist. listen to his recordings from the 20's and 30"s. he was the first pianist to record the chopin 3rd sonata. astounding pianist. one of the most underrated composers as well. he could make a folksong as profoundly moving as a beethoven slow movement. this man was a true genius.

[psalms8510]

YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[drumbo2002]

And as an inventor as well.

He wanted to create 'beat less music', to try and mimic the movement of a boat on the Albert Lagoon from his youth.

[stienwayz]

Interesting way of playing. He reminds me of Benno Moisewitch (sp?)

[kutipi234]

And also...because he jogged to his tours, his nickname became "The Jogging Pianist". :D

[kutipi234]

This was so cool! And yes, I have heard about all of his fetishes...lol. Great composer and pianist none the less. :)

[crazygrainger2006]

Great composer, with REALLY unusual fettishes.

I've heard it all from my old music teacher, & from my tuba teacher.

[goodridgewinners]

he had fetishes?

[crazygrainger2006]

Oh yah. Grainger likes to get whipped (literally), amongst other pain-inflicting actus.

[goodridgewinners]

oh yep thats right. i remember that. a BDSM type of fetish aha. Weird.

[drumbo2002]

There was aplay produced in Australia in the 1980s, named ' Let's have a whip round for Percy'.

The Grainger society in London have a script of it.

[dido93]

Great pianist...!!!!

[JJ77TTUU3]

jogging sure can be fun....

[woodie72076]

Thank you so much for posting this.