PERCY GRAINGER: Handel in the Strand

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Music

Tags:

• Handel
• Strand
• Percy
• Grainger

[mattbod]

The initial tune is very much inspired by Handel's Air from Keyboard Suite no 5 in E major more popularly known as the Harmonious Blacksmith. It's a lovely jaunty piece of music but I imagine technically difficult to play.

[ChuckyJesus666]

@lustful2 Just goes to show you that opinions are like assholes...we do indeed all have one.

[TheRobertTaggart]

Probably the best playing, certainly the best viewing !

[mochaman15]

@pyee55 thank you.

[misty04]

beautiful - a bygone era

[AlMorone1]

I'd like to hear Grainger's Walking Tune. Can anyone post it to Youtube?

[Pischnaholic]

Thank you kindly.

I just happened to hear this on the radio years and years ago and never forgot how delightful it was. Captures the cultural confidence we once had and have sadly lost.

[Bullringer69]

Wonderful description of what this piece is all about. Sunny excursion into an imaginary realm of sheer delight....indeed !! Well put, Pischnaholic.

[kunstistmist]

Very strange music... Has a certain charme though.

[lustful2]

Some emminent Musician I met once said that this piece of music should have been burnt. Hasten to ad he didn't think much of it. The music sounds much more difficult and challenging to play. I have heard it played more recently at a organ concert as a Organ arrangement by Thomas Troter .

[pyee55]

This recording is by the City of London Sinfonia, Penelope Thwaites, piano, conducted by Richard Hickox on Chandos Records 2029 or 9499.

[Pischnaholic]

Was anything before or since Grainger's Era ever so merry, confident, proud and exuberant as this sunny excursion into an imaginary realm of sheer delight?

I think I'd rather hear it SAUNTER, while here it definitely TROTS, but I love it no less for that.

[mochaman15]

does anyone know which orchestra and pianist this is? I like this recording. Others I've found have been either too fast or too slow. HELP!

[clarinetfanatic]

I've played this piece with the MSU Wind Ensemble. This is a fantastic Piece!! Love it!!

[jonathanboles84]

one of my favourite pieces of music. check out my video response, i play the "dished up" solo piano arrangement :)

[mtg1953]

This is great! Have walked down The Strand humming this tune, wondering what impressions GH Handel himself might have thought as he walked down the same street 275 years ago--presuming it existed then.