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Chan 9503 CHANDOS

THE GRAINGER EDITION Songs VOLUME TWO for

Baritone Songs for Volume2 Baritone

STEPHEN VARCOE baritone PENELOPE THWAITES piano G GGRAINGER CHAN 9503 BOOK.qxd 5/2/08 12:13 pm Page 2

Percy Grainger (1882–1961)

Trad. 1 Willow Willow [OEPM 1] 3:55 Trad. 2 Six Dukes Went Afishin’ [BFMS No. 11] 2:19 Trad. 3 British Waterside [BFMS No. 26] 1:41 Trad. 4 The Pretty Maid Milkin’ her Cow [BFMS No. 27] 1:22

The Percy Grainger Society Grainger The Percy premier recording in this version Trad. 5 The Lost Lady Found [BFMS No. 33] 2:44 premier recording Trad. 6 Creepin’ Jane [BFMS unnum.] 4:08 Trad. 7 Bold William Taylor [BFMS No. 43] 3:39 Percy Grainger premier recordings Four settings from Songs of the North 8:38 Trad. 8 Leezie Lindsay [SON No. 8] 2:34 Trad. 9 Bonnie George Campbell [SON No. 11] 0:55

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Trad. Trad. 10 Drowned [SON No. 6] 3:08 21 Shallow Brown [SCS No. 3] 5:08 TT 64:50 Trad. 11 Willie’s Gane to Melville Castle [SON No. 1] 1:45 Stephen Varcoe baritone Penelope Thwaites piano premier recordings Six settings of Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) 16:34 ¶ edited for performance by Barry Peter Ould 12 Lukannon§ [KS unnum.] 6:26 § realized by Barry Peter Ould 13 Merciful Town¶ [KS unnum.] 3:04 OEPM – Old English Popular Music 14 Ride with an Idle Whip [KS unnum.] 0:20 BFMS – British Folk Music Setting SON – Songs of the North 15 Northern Ballad [KS unnum.] 1:03 KS – Kipling Setting 16 The Men of the Sea [KS No. 10] 1:29 SCS – Sea Chanty Setting 17 Soldier, Soldier [KS unnum.] 3:39

Trad. 18 Hard Hearted Barb’ra (H)Ellen [BFMS unnum.] 6:45 premier recording Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) 19 The Secret of the Sea 3:30 premier recording Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) 20 Sailor’s Chanty¶ 3:06

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his music rapidly declined. Grainger wanted 1920 in New York and given as a Yule gift to Percy Grainger: Songs for Baritone to be remembered for his own compositions his mother the same year. rather than by what he called his ‘fripperies’ The Pretty Maid Milkin’ her Cow is (Country Gardens, Molly on the Shore etc.) another Lincolnshire folk song which Percy Grainger’s songs for solo voice and sent the young Percy a parcel of several But, the vitality of Grainger’s life Grainger collected at Boston from George piano amount to approximately eighty works volumes in order to ‘tickle up the British encapsulated in these mini-masterpieces has Leaning of Barton-on-Humber in August of which eighteen or so are original Lion in him’. Inspired by what he read, at least kept his name alive so that we can 1906. Grainger’s setting dates from compositions. Most of these come under the Grainger set to work composing original now begin to appreciate the worth of this September 1920. heading of arrangements of folk songs, some melodies to Kipling’s verse. The earliest of multi-faceted man. The Lost Lady Found is a dance-folk song of which were collected in the field by these – his first Kipling setting – was Willow Willow was the first traditional noted down by Miss Lucy E. Broadwood Grainger himself during his stay in Britain ‘Northern Ballad’ which dates from a few tune that Grainger set in November 1898. from the singing of her Lincolnshire nurse, during the early part of this century weeks before his sixteenth birthday. He published a revised version in 1912 and Mrs Hill. The version for solo voice and (1901–14). The sea had a special meaning for this lament for lost love is one of Grainger’s piano is one of many alternative scorings In his student days Grainger made Grainger, and in 1908 he jumped at the most haunting songs. The setting is listed in the published score and is dedicated arrangements from two published chance of hearing real sea chanties from the dedicated to his friend, Roger Quilter. to the memory of Lucy Broadwood. Grainger collections: Augener’s Minstrelsy of England singing of John Perring. This led to some of Six Dukes Went Afishin’ was first noted was later to use this folk song for the last and Cramer’s Songs of the North. Another Grainger’s most intense settings including down by ear from the singing of George movement of his Lincolnshire Posy. source, William Chappell’s Old English ‘Shallow Brown’. The sea is also the subject Gouldthorpe at Brigg in September 1905. Creepin’ Jane is a song about a racehorse Popular Music, was to furnish Grainger with of three other songs included here, namely The setting recorded here dates from 1912 which Grainger phonographed from the ‘Willow Willow’. But it was a trip made by ‘Sailor’s Chanty’, ‘The Men of the Sea’ and and consists of a blending of Gouldthorpe’s singing of Joseph Taylor at Brigg in July 1906. Grainger and his mother, Rose, to the ‘The Secret of the Sea’. melody with alternatives taken from a Grainger’s setting recorded here for the first Highlands of Scotland and in particular to No selection of Grainger’s songs would be performance Grainger phonographed from time, was made in New York City between Argyll in 1900 that fired the young complete without his British Folk-Music Joseph Leaning of Barton-on-Humber in 1920–21 and was presented as a ‘loving Grainger. In his fourteen settings taken from Settings. Here we are presented with seven of August 1906. The melody of this song is a birthday gift to mother, July 23, 1921’. Songs of the North, we have the first them, including, the whimsical ‘Creepin’ variant of the well-known air to Polly Oliver. Bold William Taylor like several of indication of Grainger’s unique harmonic Jane’ and the manic ‘Hard Hearted Barb’ra British Waterside is a rollicking sailor song Grainger’s vocal settings, started life for voice language. Another important factor in the (H)Ellen’. In these the brilliance of the piano collected by Grainger from the singing of and room-music. His preliminary setting of development of Grainger the composer was accompaniments add rich harmonic colour Samuel Stokes at Retford Almshouses, this tune dates from 1908 and is based on his introduction to the poetry of Kipling. to the vocal line. Retford, Nottinghamshire in August 1906. It several versions he phonographed from the For this we must thank his father, John, who When Grainger died in 1961, interest in was set for voice and piano in September singing of George Gouldthorpe and Joseph

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Taylor at Brigg two years earlier. The subject Merciful Town comes from the story ‘The noted two versions of this song between Sailor’s Chanty is an original song to a matter is one that crops up in numerous folk Brushwood Boy’ in Kipling’s The Day’s Work. 1905 and 1906 from the singing of Joseph poem by Arthur Conan Doyle which appears songs. Some of the thematic material used in this Taylor at Brigg and James Hornsby from in his short story, Captain Sharkey. Leezie Lindsay, Bonnie George song can also be heard in his orchestral piece Crosby, near Scunthorpe. However it was Composed in 1901, Grainger’s song is Campbell, Drowned, Willie’s Gane to Fisher’s Boarding-House based on Kipling’s Hornsby’s version that Grainger turned to strophic in form. Melville Castle are all settings of Scottish poem of the same name. when he made his setting for voice and piano Shallow Brown was collected from the songs that Grainger took from the published Ride with an Idle Whip is the four-line in February 1946. This folk-song setting is singing of John Perring (of Dartford, collection Songs of the North (edited by A.C. verse heading to the Kipling story ‘The one in which Grainger makes good use of England) by H.E. Piggott (of Dartmouth McLeod and Harold Boulton with music Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin’, in Plain irregular rhythms. In the final pages, the Naval College) and Percy Grainger in arranged by Malcolm Lawson). Grainger’s Tales from the Hills. Kipling’s title for this mood of the narrative is captured in an January 1908. Perring, ‘a deep-sea sailor accompaniments to these songs are on a poem is Life’s Handicap. Composed in astounding way as the ‘red rose-bud’ and the songster’ said that the song was supposed to higher plane than his previous settings of August 1899, it is the shortest of all ‘green brier’ race towards their entwinement be sung by a woman standing on the quay to English folk songs and he imbues each of the Grainger’s songs. at the top of the church. Grainger’s recently Shallow Brown as his ship was weighing songs with a totally new, richer harmony. His Northern Ballad comes from Kipling’s The discovered programme note for this song is anchor. Perring did not know why Brown trip to Scotland in the summer of 1900 Light That Failed. The title is Grainger’s, but worth mentioning: was called ‘Shallow’ ‘unless it was that he was heralded the beginning of Grainger’s for the orchestral piece based on this song, he Taking the view that the old ballad foreshadows shallow in his heart’, he added. Grainger’s development as a composer and although he reverted to the opening line of the poem. the modern preference for sublimation over setting for voice (or voices) and piano was visited Scotland rarely, its music, literature The Men of the Sea comes from Kipling’s consummation, where love is concerned (a made in 1925. Grainger wrote: ‘My setting and ‘soul-shaking hillscapes’ had a profound The Light That Failed where it appears in preference I do not share), I have not hesitated, aims to convey a suggestion of wafted, wind- effect on him. Chapter 8. It was composed by Grainger in in my setting, to treat the verses dealing with borne, surging sounds heard at sea.’ Lukannon – Grainger originally set this November 1899 at Frankfurt and slightly Barbara (H)Ellen’s death and burial with poem for male voices a cappella in December modified in 1923 before being published. exultation – as a welcome stage in the Stephen Varcoe was educated at King’s 1898. The poem comes from Kipling’s ‘The The style is characteristic of a number of development of the final satisfaction seen in the College, Cambridge. He has performed in White Seal’ in The Second Jungle Book where Grainger’s early songs. union of the lovers, in the form of plant-life, on concert engagements with many distinguished it is described by Kipling as ‘a sort of very Soldier, Soldier comes from Kipling’s the church-top. orchestras including BBC Scottish Symphony sad seal National Anthem’. This lament, sung Barrack-Room Ballads and is the earliest of The Secret of the Sea is an original song Orchestra, Nash Ensemble, Orchestra of St by the seals when they are heading back to three settings Grainger made of this poem. to a poem by Longfellow. Composed in June Luke’s, New York, and the English Concert, their beaches in the summer tells of the seal- This simple setting tells of a soldier’s death to 1898, this through-composed song is one of with conductors including John Eliot rookeries and the coming of the sealers to questions posed by the dead soldier’s lover. the earliest examples of the use of the whole- Gardiner, Trevor Pinnock, Sigiswald Kuijken, cull them. Hard Hearted Barb’ra (H)Ellen – Grainger tone scale. Neville Marriner and Jean-Claude Malgoire.

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His extensive discography includes Haydn’s Medallion in 1991 in recognition of her L’infedeltà delusa, Dido and Aeneas, Tavener’s work. She graduated with a First Class Percy Grainger: Lieder für Bariton Mary of Egypt and many recital discs. Recent Honours degree in music from Melbourne engagements included Handel’s Apollo and University, also the site of the Grainger Daphne with the St Paul’s Chamber Museum. Her career as an international Percy Graingers Lieder für Sologesang und wir seinem Vater John dankbar sein, der dem Orchestra with Richard Hickox and pianist has taken her to five continents, and Klavier belaufen sich auf annähernd achtzig jungen Percy ein Paket mit mehreren Bänden Alexander Goehr’s Sonata about Jerusalem in a wide-ranging repertoire she has made a Werke, darunter um die achtzehn schickte, “um den britischen Löwen in ihm with the Schoenberg Ensemble and Oliver point of promoting Australian composers. Originalkompositionen. Die meisten gehören zu wecken”. Angeregt durch seine Lektüre Knussen. Her recordings of Grainger’s solo and two in die Kategorie der Bearbeitungen von machte sich Grainger daran, piano music (with John Lavender) have won Volksliedern, von denen Grainger, als er sich Originalmelodien zu Kiplings Versen zu Penelope Thwaites is a leading authority on the highest praise in the musical press. She zu Anfang dieses Jahrhunderts (1901–1914) komponieren. Die älteste – und erste – Percy Grainger and was awarded the will be a featured artist in this historic in Großbritannien aufhielt, einige selbst vor Kipling-Vertonung war “Northern Ballad” International Percy Grainger Society’s Chandos Grainger Series. Ort gesammelt hat. (Ballade des Nordens), die aus der Zeit In seiner Studienzeit nahm Grainger wenige Wochen vor seinem sechzehnten Bearbeitungen nach zwei veröffentlichten Geburtstag stammt. Sammlungen vor: Augeners Minstrelsy of Das Meer hatte eine besondere Bedeutung England und Cramers Songs of the North. für Grainger, und 1908 ergriff er die Eine weitere Quelle, William Chappells Old Gelegenheit, echte Seemannslieder zu hören, English Popular Music, sollte ihm “Weide Sea Chanties, gesungen von John Perring. Weide” an die Hand geben. Es war eine Daraus ergaben sich einige der Reise in die schottischen Highlands, 1900 eindringlichsten Vertonungen Graingers, wie von ihm und seiner Mutter Rose zum Beispiel “Shallow Brown” (Seicht unternommen, die den jungen Grainger Braun). Das Meer ist auch Thema dreier beflügelte. In den vierzehn Vertonungen anderer hier vertretener Lieder, nämlich nach Songs of the North finden wir erste “Sailor’s Chanty” (Matrosenlied), “The Men Anhaltspunkte für seine einzigartige of the Sea” (Die Männer der See) und “The Harmonik. Ein weiterer Faktor, der die Secret of the Sea” (Das Geheimnis des Entwicklung des Komponisten Grainger Meeres). bestimmte, war seine Bekanntschaft mit den Keine Zusammenstellung von Graingers Gedichten Rudyard Kiplings. Dafür müssen Liedern wäre komplett ohne seine

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Vertonungen britischer Volksmusik “British Six Dukes Went Afishin’ (Sechs Herzöge verschwundene Dame wiedergefunden) ist zwei Jahre zuvor in Brigg mit dem Folk Music Settings”). Hier werden uns gingen fischen) wurde im September 1905 in ein volkstümliches Tanzlied, Phonographen aufgenommen hatte. Der insgesamt sieben geboten, einschließlich des Brigg zunächst nach Gehör in der niedergeschrieben von Miss Lucy E. Stoff ist einer, der in unzähligen Volksliedern wehmütigen “Creeping Jane” (Die kreichende Interpretation von George Gouldthorpe Broadwood nach dem Vortrag ihres behandelt wird. Johanna) und des hektischen “Hard Hearted niedergeschrieben. Die vorliegende Kindermädchens, einer Mrs. Hill aus der Leezie Lindsay, Bonnie George Campbell Barb’ra (H)Ellen” (Die Hartherzige Barb’ra Bearbeitung stammt aus dem Jahr 1912 und englischen Grafschaft Lincolnshire. Die (Der hübsche George Campbell), Drowned (H)Ellen). In ihnen fügt die Brillanz der ist ein Gemisch aus Gouldthorpes Melodie Fassung für Sologesang und Klavier ist eine (Ertrunken), und Willie’s Gane to Melville Klavierbegleitungen der Gesanglinie üppige und Alternativen, die Grainger einer im von vielen Alternativbesetzungen, die in der Castle (Willie ging nach Schloß Melville) harmonische Nuancen hinzu. August 1906 angefertigten phonographischen Druckausgabe aufgelistet sind, und ist dem sind allesamt Vertonungen schottischer Als Grainger 1961 starb, nahm das Aufnahme der Darbietung von Joseph Andenken von Lucy Broadwood gewidmet. Lieder, die Grainger der veröffentlichten Interesse an seiner Musik rasch ab. Grainger Leaning aus Barton-on-Humber entnommen Grainger sollte dieses Volkslied später noch Sammlung Songs of the North entnommen wollte mit seinen eigenen Kompositionen in hat. Die Melodie ist außerdem eine Variante einmal für den letzten Satz von Ein Strauß hat (herausgegeben von A.C. McLeod und Erinnerung bleiben, also nicht mit seinem auf die bekannte Melodie zu für Polly Oliver. aus Lincolnshire verwenden. Harold Boulton mit musikalischen “Plunder” (Country Gardens (Ländliche British Waterside (Britischer Ufer) ist ein Creepin’ Jane (Die kreichende Johanna) Arrangements von Malcolm Lawson). Gärten), Molly on the Shore (Molly am Ufer) ausgelassenes Seemannslied, das Grainger im ist ein Lied über ein Rennpferd, dessen Graingers Begleitungen der Lieder stehen auf usw.), wie er zu sagen pflegte. Dabei hat August 1906 gesammelt hat, nachdem es Interpretation durch Joseph Taylor Grainger einem höheren Niveau als seine Graingers Vitalität, die in diese kleinen ihm Samuel Stokes in den Retford im Juli 1906 in Brigg phonographisch vorangegangenen Vertonungen englischer Meisterwerke eingegangen ist, zumindest Almshouses in Retford, Nottinghamshire, aufzeichnete. Graingers Vertonung, die hier Volkslieder, und er flößt jedem der Lieder seinen Namen im Bewußtsein erhalten, so vorgesungen hatte. Es wurde im September zum ersten Mal eingespielt wurde, entstand eine völlig neue, reichhaltigere Harmonik daß wir uns nun ein Urteil über die wahre 1920 in New York für Gesang und Klavier 1920/21 in New York und wurde als “Liebes ein. Seine Reise nach Schottland im Sommer Bedeutung dieses vielseitigen Mannes bilden bearbeitet und im selben Jahr Graingers Geburtstagsgeschenk für Mutter, 23. Juli 1900 leitete Graingers Entwicklung als können. Mutter als Weihnachtsgeschenk überreicht. 1921” überreicht. Komponist ein, und obwohl er Schottland Willow Willow (Weide Weide) war die The Pretty Maid Milkin’ her Cow (Die Bold William Taylor (Die verwegene nur selten besuchte, hatten seine Musik, erste traditionelle Melodie, die Grainger im hübsche Magd beim Melken ihrer Kuh) ist William Taylor) begann wie mehrere andere Literatur und “die seelenerschütternden November 1898 vertonte. Eine bearbeitete ein weiteres Volkslied aus Lincolnshire, das Vokalwerke Graingers sein Dasein als Stück Hügellandschaften” eine tiefgreifende Fassung kam 1912 heraus, und diese Klage Grainger im August 1906 im englischen für Gesang und Stubenmusik. Seine Wirkung auf ihn. um verlorene Liebe ist eines von Graingers Boston von George Leaning aus Barton-on- vorläufige Vertonung der Melodie geht auf Lukannon hat Grainger im Dezember ergreifendsten Gesangswerken. Die Humber übernommen hat. Graingers das Jahr 1908 zurück und beruht auf 1898 zunächst für Männerstimmen a Vertonung ist seinem Freund Roger Quilter Vertonung entstand im September 1920. mehreren von George Gouldthorpe und cappella vertont. Das Gedicht entstammt gewidmet. The Lost Lady Found (Die Joseph Taylor gesungenen Versionen, die er Kiplings “The White Seal” aus dem The

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Second Jungle Book, wo es als “eine Art stammt aus dem achten Kapitel von Kiplings vor kurzem entdeckte Programmnotiz zu und Sänger”, handelt es sich um das an tieftraurige Nationalhymne der Robben” The Light That Failed. Grainger komponierte diesem Lied ist der Erwähnung wert: Seicht Braun gerichtete Lied einer Frau, die bezeichnet wird. Das Klagelied, das die das Lied im November 1899 in Frankfurt Davon ausgehend, daß die alte Ballade wie am Kai stand, während sein Schiff die Anker Robben singen, wenn sie im Sommer an ihre und nahm 1923, ehe es veröffentlicht wurde, heute üblich in Liebesdingen der Sublimierung lichtete. Perring wußte nicht zu sagen, Strände zurückkehren, erzählt von den noch einmal geringfügige Änderungen vor. den Vorzug gegenüber der Erfüllung gibt (eine warum Braun “Seicht”, also “Der Seichte” Brutplätzen der Robben und von den Der Stil ist typisch für eine Anzahl früher Präferenz, die ich nicht teile), habe ich bei hieß, und fügte hinzu: “… es sei denn, er Robbenjägern, die kommen, um sie zu Grainger-Lieder. meiner Vertonung nicht gezögert, die Strophen hatte ein seichtes Gemüt.” Graingers erschlagen. Soldier, Soldier (Soldat, Soldat) ist über Barbara (H)Ellens Tod und Begräbnis mit Vertonung für Gesangsstimme (bzw. Merciful Town (Barmherzige Stadt) geht Kiplings Barrack-Room Ballads entlehnt und Frohlocken zu erfüllen – als willkommene Stimmen) und Klavier wurde 1925 auf die Geschichte “The Brushwood Boy” in die älteste von drei Vertonungen, die Etappe auf dem Weg zur endlichen überarbeitet. Grainger schrieb dazu: “Meine Kiplings The Day’s Work zurück. Ein Teil des Grainger nach dem Gedicht vorgenommen Befriedigung, die in der Vereinigung der Vertonung zielt darauf ab, wehende, vom für dieses Lied verwendeten Themen- hat. Das schlichte Lied berichtet vom Tod Liebenden in pflanzlicher Form auf dem Wind herangetragene, anschwellende Klänge materials ist außerdem in Graingers eines Soldaten, und zwar auf die Fragen hin, Kirchendach erlebt wird. anzudeuten, wie sie auf See zu hören sind.” Orchesterstück Fisher’s Boarding-House die die Geliebte des Gefallenen stellt. The Secret of the Sea (Das Geheimnis des (Fishers Logis) nach Kiplings gleichnamigem Hard Hearted Barb’ra (H)Ellen (Die Meeres) ist eine Originalkomposition nach © 1996 Barry Peter Ould Gedicht zu finden. Hartherzige Barb’ra (H)Ellen) hat Grainger einem Gedicht von Longfellow. Das 1898 Übersetzung Anne Steeb/Bernd Müller Ride with an Idle Whip (Reite mit zwischen 1905 und 1906 in zwei Fassungen entstandene durchkomponierte Lied ist eines müßiger Peitsche) ist der Vierzeiler, der am nach dem Gesang von Joseph Tayler in Brigg der frühesten Beispiele für den Einsatz der Stephen Varcoe studierte am King’s College, Anfang der Kipling-Geschichte “The und James Hornsby aus Crosby bei Ganztonskala. Cambridge. Er konzertiert mit namhaften Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin” in Plain Scunthorpe festgehalten. Allerdings wandte Sailor’s Chanty (Matrosenlied) ist ein Orchestern, darunter das BBC Scottish Tales from the Hills steht. Bei Kipling heißt er sich Hornsbys Fassung zu, als er im Originallied nach einem Gedicht von Arthur Symphony Orchestra; das Nash Ensemble; das Gedicht Life’s Handicap. Das im August Februar 1946 seine Vertonung für Conan Doyle, das in dessen Kurzgeschichte das Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York 1899 komponierte Stück ist das kürzeste aller Gesangsstimme und Klavier anfertigte. In Captain Sharkey vorkommt. Graingers 1901 English Concert, und singt unter der Lieder von Grainger. dieser Volksliedvertonung macht Grainger komponiertes Lied ist strophisch aufgebaut. Leitung von John Eliot Gardiner, Trevor Northern Ballad (Ballade des Nordens) hat ausgiebig Gebrauch von unregelmäßigen Shallow Brown (Seicht Braun) wurde von Pinnock, Kuijken, Neville Marriner und ihren Ursprung in Kiplings The Light That Rhythmen. Auf den Schlußseiten wird auf H.E. Piggott (von der Marineakademie Jean-Claude Malgoire. Zahlreiche Failed. Der Titel ist von Grainger; für das erstaunliche Art die Stimmung des Erzählten Dartmouth) und Percy Grainger im Januar Einspielungen, u.a. L’infedeltà delusa Orchesterstück nach dem Lied benutzte er eingefangen, wenn die rote Rosenknospe und 1908 gesammelt, nachdem es ihnen John (Haydn), Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), Mary of dagegen wieder die erste Zeile des Gedichts. der grüne Dornzweig ihrer Verflechtung auf Perring (aus Dartford) vorgesungen hatte. Egypt (Tavener) und viele Recitalaufnahmen. The Men of the Sea (Die Männer der See) dem Kirchendach entgegeneilen. Graingers Laut Perring, “einem waschechten Seemann Unter Engagements der letzten Zeit

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befinden sich: Apollo and Daphne (Händel) Universität Melbourne, Standort des mit dem St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra unter Grainger-Museums. Ihre pianistische Karriere Percy Grainger: Chants pour baryton Richard Hickox und Sonata about Jerusalem hat sie bereits in fünf Weltteile geführt und in (Goehr) mit dem Schönberg-Ensemble unter ihrem umfangreichen Repertoire legt sie Oliver Knussen. besonderen Wert auf die Förderung Parmi les quelques quatre-vingts mélodies Rudyard Kipling. Pour cela, nous devons australischer Komponisten. Ihre Einspielungen pour voix et piano que Percy Grainger remercier son père, John, qui envoya au Penelope Thwaites ist eine anerkannte von Graingers Werken für ein oder zwei composa, dix-huit environ sont des jeune Percy un colis contenant plusieurs Autorität über Percy Grainger und wurde Klaviere (mit John Lavender) wurden von den compositions originales. La plupart de ces volumes afin de “réveiller le lion anglais qui 1991 in Anerkennung ihrer Leistungen mit Fachzeitschriften in den höchsten Tönen pièces sont des arrangements de chansons sommeillait en lui”. Inspiré par ce qu’il lu, der Medaille der Internationalen Percy- gepriesen. In dieser historischen Grainger- folkloriques dont certaines furent recueillies Grainger se mit à composer des mélodies Grainger-Gesellschaft ausgezeichnet. Sie Reihe der Firma Chandos wird sie eine par le compositeur sur le terrain pendant son originales sur des vers de Kipling. La absolvierte summa cum laude in Musik an der maßgebende Rolle spielen. séjour en Angleterre au début de ce siècle première d’entre elles – son premier recueil (1901–1914). utilisant des textes de Kipling – est A l’époque où il était encore étudiant, “Northern Ballad” (Ballade du Nord) qu’il Grainger réalisa des arrangements de deux composa quelques semaines avant son collections publiées: le Minstrelsy of England seizième anniversaire. d’Augener et les Songs of the North de La mer avait une signification toute Cramer. Grainger trouva “Willow Willow” particulière pour Grainger, et en 1908, il (Saule Saule) dans un autre recueil, Old sauta sur l’occasion d’entendre English Popular Music de William Chappell. d’authentiques chansons de marin grâce au C’est le voyage que Grainger et sa mère, chant de John Perring. Cela donna naissance Rose, firent en 1900 dans les Highlands en à quelques-uns des arrangements les plus Ecosse, et en particulier à Argyll, qui intenses de Grainger, notamment “Shallow enflamma l’imagination du jeune homme. Brown” (Brown, le frivole). La mer est Dans ses quatorze arrangements de chansons également le sujet de trois autres chansons Chandos ist bestrebt, in technischer Hinsicht immer an der Spitze zu liegen. Wir benutzen extraites des Songs of the North, on trouve la présentées ici, à savoir “Sailor’s Chanty” deshalb seit einiger Zeit das 20-bit-Einspielungsverfahren, dessen dynamischer Bereich bis zu première manifestation du langage (Chant de marins), “The Men of the Sea” 24dB größer ist als beim herkömmlichen 16-bit-Verfahren und das eine 16mal bessere harmonique unique de Grainger. Un autre (Les hommes de la mer) et “The Secret of Trennschärfe hat. Dank dieses Fortschritts kommt jetzt die natürliche Klarheit und das facteur important pour le développement du the Sea” (Le secret de la mer). besondere Ambiente des “Chandos-Klangs” noch besser zur Geltung. compositeur fut sa découverte de la poésie de Aucune sélection des mélodies de Grainger

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ne serait complète sans quelques-uns de ses Six Dukes Went Afishin’ (Six ducs allèrent Mrs Hill, originaire du Lincolnshire. La (Willie est parti au château de Melville) arrangements de musique folklorique à la pêche) fut d’abord noté d’oreille d’après version pour voix seule et piano est l’une des sont tous des arrangements de chansons anglaise. Le présent enregistrement en le chant de George Gouldthorpe à Brigg en multiples intrumentations possibles indiquées écossaises que Grainger trouva dans la propose sept, parmi lesquels figurent le septembre 1905. L’arrangement enregistré ici dans la partition publiée, et elle est dédiée à collection Songs of the North (éditée par fantaisiste “Creepin’ Jane” (Jane, la rampante) date de 1912, et mêle la mélodie de la mémoire de Lucy E. Broadwood. Grainger A.C. McLeod et Harold Boulton avec des et le trépidant “Hard Hearted Barb’ra Gouldthorpe à d’autres éléments d’une réutilisa par la suite cette chanson pour le arrangements musicaux de Malcolm (H)Ellen” (Barb’ra (H)Ellen au cœur de interprétation de Joseph Leaning de Barton- dernier mouvement de son Lincolnshire Posy Lawson). Les accompagnements que pierre). Dans ces pièces, brillant on-Humber que Grainger enregistra en août (Petit bouquet du Lincolnshire). Grainger réalisa pour ces chansons sont accompagnement du piano ajoute de riches 1906. La mélodie de cette chanson est une Creepin’ Jane (Jane, la rampante) parle supérieurs aux arrangements de chansons couleurs harmoniques à la ligne vocale. variante de l’air bien connu Polly Oliver. d’un cheval de course que Grainger enregistra folkloriques anglaises qu’il fit antérieurement, Après la mort de Grainger en 1961, British Waterside (Le rivage britannique) en juillet 1906 à Brigg, chantée par Joseph nimbant chaque pièce d’une harmonie l’intérêt porté à sa musique déclina est une chanson bouffonne de marin que Taylor. L’arrangement de Grainger, qui est ici totalement nouvelle et beaucoup plus rapidement. Grainger souhaitait que l’on se Grainger recueillit auprès de Samuel Stokes à enregistré pour la première fois, fut composé riche. Le voyage que Grainger effectua en rappelât de lui pour ses compositions Retford Almshouses, Retford, dans le à New York en 1920–1921. Il fut offert Ecosse pendant l’été 1900 marqua le début originales plutôt que pour ce qu’il qualifiait Nottinghamshire en août 1906. Elle fut comme “affectueux cadeau d’anniversaire à de sa carrière de compositeur, et bien qu’il de “frivolités” (Country Gardens (Jardins de la arrangée pour voix et piano en septembre maman, 23 juillet 1921”. n’eût visité l’Ecosse que très rarement, sa campagne), Molly on the Shore (Molly sur la 1920 à New York, et offert à la mère du Bold William Taylor (L’intrépide William musique, sa littérature et ses “paysages de rivage) etc.). Mais la vitalité de l’existence de compositeur comme cadeau de Noël la Taylor) Comme bon nombre des collines qui secouent l’âme” eurent un Grainger qui est contenue dans ces petits même année. arrangements vocaux de Grainger, celui-ci fut profond effet sur lui. chefs-d’œuvre a au moins le mérite d’avoir The Pretty Maid Milkin’ her Cow (La d’abord conçu pour voix et salon de Lukannon – Grainger arrangea d’abord ce sauvé son nom de l’oubli, et nous permet jolie fille trayant sa vache) est une autre musique. Son arrangement préliminaire de poème pour voix d’hommes a cappella en maintenant de commencer à apprécier la chanson folklorique du Lincolnshire que cette mélodie date de 1908, et est fondé sur décembre 1898. Le poème provient de “The valeur de cet homme aux multiples facettes. Grainger recueillit à Boston auprès de George plusieurs versions des chants de George White Seal” de Kipling qui se trouve dans Willow Willow (Saule, Saule) est la Leaning de Barton-on-Humber en août Gouldthorpe et Joseph Taylor qu’il avait The Second Jungle Book où il est décrit par première mélodie folklorique que Grainger 1906. L’arrangement qu’en fit Grainger date enregistrés à Brigg deux ans auparavant. Le l’écrivain comme étant une “sorte d’hymne arrangea en novembre 1898. Il en publia une de septembre 1920. sujet réapparaît dans de nombreuses national des phoques, très triste”. Cette version révisée en 1912, et cette lamentation The Lost Lady Found (La dame perdue et chansons folkloriques. lamentation, chantée par les phoques quand d’un amour perdu est l’une des chansons de retrouvée) est une mélodie populaire sur un Leezie Lindsay, Bonnie George Campbell ils retournent l’été sur leurs plages, parle des Grainger les plus lancinantes. Elle est dédiée rythme de danse notée par Miss Lucy E. (Le beau George Campbell), Drowned colonies de phoques et des phoquiers qui à son ami Roger Quilter. Broadwood d’après le chant de sa nourrice (Noyé), Willie’s Gane to Melville Castle viennent pour les massacrer.

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Merciful Town (Ville miséricordieuse) plus ancien des trois versions que Grainger comme un stade bienvenu dans le d’évoquer des sonorités houleuses portées par provient de l’histoire “The Brushwood Boy” réalisa de ce poème. Cette mise en musique développement de la satisfaction finale que le vent que l’on peut entendre en mer.” extraite de The Day’s Work de Kipling. Une toute simple nous raconte l’histoire de la constitue l’union des amants, sous la forme partie du matériau thématique de cette mort d’un soldat et les question que pose d’une vie végétale, au sommet de l’église. © 1996 Barry Peter Ould chanson se retrouve dans la pièce pour l’amante de ce dernier. The Secret of the Sea (Le secret de la mer) Traduction: Francis Marchal orchestre Fisher’s Boarding-House (La pension Hard Hearted Barb’ra (H)Ellen (Barb’ra est une autre chanson originale sur un poème de famille de Fisher) qui se fonde sur le (H)Ellen au cœur de pierre) – Grainger nota de Longfellow. Composée en juin 1898, cette Stephen Varcoe fit ses études au King’s poème de Kipling portant le même nom. deux versions de cette chanson en 1905 et composition tout d’une pièce est l’un des College de Cambridge. Il s’est produit en Ride with an Idle Whip (Chevauchée sans 1906, recueillies auprès de Joseph Taylor à premiers exemples de l’utilisation de la concert avec de nombreux orchestres fort fouet) – Il s’agit des quatre vers qui se Brigg et James Hornsby de Crosby, près de gamme par tons. célèbres tels que le BBC Scottish Symphony trouvent en tête de l’histoire de Kipling “The Scunthorpe. Cependant, c’est la version Sailor’s Chanty (Chant de marins) est une Orchestra, le Nash Ensemble, l’Orchestre de Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin” dans d’Hornsby que Grainger utilisa quand il fit chanson originale sur un poème d’Arthur St Luke’s, New York, l’English Concert et Plain Tales from the Hills. Le titre de Kipling son arrangement pour voix et piano en Conan Doyle qui se trouve dans sa nouvelle sous la direction de chefs tels que John Eliot pour ce poème est Life’s Handicap. Composée février 1946. Dans cet arrangement, Grainger Captain Sharkey. Composée en 1901, la Gardiner, Trevor Pinnock, Sigiswald Kuijken, en août 1899, c’est la plus brève de toutes les fit un large usage de rythmes irréguliers. chanson de Grainger est de forme strophique. Neville Marriner et Jean-Claude Malgoire. chansons de Grainger. Dans les dernières pages, l’atmosphère de Shallow Brown (Brown, le frivole) fut Parmi ses nombreux enregistrements, notons Northern Ballad (Ballade du Nord) l’histoire est captée d’une manière étonnante recueilli auprès du chanteur John Perring (de L’infedeltà delusa de Haydn, Dido and Aeneas provient de The Light That Failed de Kipling. quand le “bourgeon de rose rouge” et la Dartford en Angleterre) par H.E. Piggot (du de Purcell, Mary of Egypt de Tavener ainsi Le titre est de Grainger, mais pour la pièce “verte bruyère” se précipitent vers leur Collège Naval de Dartmouth) et Percy qu’un grand nombre de disques de récitals. orchestrale fondée sur cette chanson, il reprit enlacement au sommet de l’église. Un Grainger en janvier 1908. Perring, “un marin Ses engagements récents comprennent Apollo le premier vers du poème. programme récemment découvert que de haute mer”, déclara que celle-ci était and Daphne de Haendel avec le St Paul The Men of the Sea (Les hommes de la Grainger écrivit pour cette chanson vaut ici supposée être chantée par un femme se Chamber Orchestra sous la direction de mer) provient du chapitre huit de The Light la peine d’être mentionné: tenant debout sur le quai en direction de Richard Hickox, et la Sonata about Jerusalem That Failed de Kipling. Grainger composa Dans la mesure où la vieille ballade annonce la Brown pendant que son bateau levait l’ancre. de Alexander Goehr avec le Schoenberg cette chanson en novembre 1899 à Frankfort, préférence moderne de la sublimation sur la Perring ne savait pas pourquoi Brown était Ensemble et Oliver Knussen. et la modifia légèrement en 1923 avant de la consommation, quand il s’agit de l’amour (une surnommé “le frivole”, “à moins qu’il n’ait publier. Le style est caractéristique de maintes préférence que je ne partage pas), je n’ai pas été frivole de cœur” ajouta-t-il. Penelope Thwaites, une grande spécialiste de chansons de jeunesse de Grainger. hésité dans mon arrangement à traiter avec L’arrangement de Grainger pour une ou Percy Grainger, a reçu en 1991 la médaille Soldier, Soldier (Soldat, Soldat) provient exultation les vers qui parlent de la mort et de plusieurs voix et piano fut composé en 1925. internationale de la Percy Grainger Society, des Barrack-Room Ballads de Kipling, et est la l’ensevelissement de Barbara (H)Ellen – Grainger écrivit: “Mon arrangement tente qui lui a été décernée en reconnaissance de

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ses travaux. Elle a obtenu une licence de de son vaste répertoire. Les enregistrements musique avec mention très bien de qu’elle a effectués de la musique de Grainger l’Université de Melbourne (où se trouve aussi pour piano seul et pour deux pianos le Musée Grainger). Au cours de sa carrière (interprétée en compagnie de John Lavender) de pianiste internationale qui l’a emmenée lui ont valu de recevoir les plus grand éloges sur cinq continents. Penelope Thwaites s’est de la presse musical. On la retrouvera au long efforcée de promouvoir les compositeurs de cette série historique que Chandos australiens, en leur faisant une place au sein consacre à Grainger. Nicky Johnston Nicky

Stephen Varcoe

La politique de Chandos qui se veut à la pointe de la technologie est à présent favorisée par le recours aux enregistrements 20-bits. La dynamique du 20-bits est largement supérieure – jusqu’à 24dB – et atteint 16 fois la résolution des enregistrements standards 16-bits. Ces perfectionnements permettront à nos auditeurs d’apprécier davantage la limpidité et la chaleur du “son Chandos”.

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Willow Willow They won said to itch other theese words, a’ve North Yarmouth is a pretty place, it shines Long time she’d been missin’ and could not e 1 The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree, heard them sa: where it stands; be found. Sing willow, willow, willow: ‘It’s the Roeyull Duke of Grant’am what the The more I look upon it the more my Her uncle he searched the country around With his hand in his bosom and his head upon tide ’as weshed awa.’ heart burns. Till he came to the trustee between hope his knee. If I was at North Yarmouth I should think and fear. They tok him up to Portsmoth, to a place O willow, willow, willow, willow, myself at home, The trustee made answer: ‘she has not e where he was non [known]; O willow, willow, willow, willow shall be For there I have sweethearts and here I have been here.’ From there up to London, to the place where my garland; got none. he was born. The trustee spoke over with courage so bold: Sing all a green willow, willow, willow, willow; I’ll go down to yon British waterside and build ‘I fear she’s been lost for the sake of her gold. Aye me the green willow must be my garland. Tha tok ot his bowils and stretched ot his feet, my love a touwer So we’ll have life for life, sir,’ the trustee and they balmed his body with rosis se sweet. He sighed in his singing, and made a Where the lords, dukes and skewiers may all did say. great moan, He no lies betwixt two towers, he no lies in it admire. ‘We’ll send you to prison and there you Sing willow, willow, willow: cold cla, The King can but love the Queen, and I can shall stay.’ When the Roeyull Queen of Grant’am went I am dead to all pleasure, my true love she but do the same; There was a young squire that loved her so, weepin’ awa. is gone. But you shall be the shepherdess andell I will Oft times to the school-house together they O willow, willow, willow, willow, be your swain. did go: O willow, willow, willow, willow shall be I’m afraid she’s been murdered, so great is my British Waterside The Pretty Maid Milkin’ her Cow my garland; fear; 3 Down beyond the British waterside, as I 4 It was early one fine summer’s mornin’ Sing all a green willow, willow, willow, willow; If I’d wings like a dove I would fly to my dear.’ Aye me the green willow must be my garland. walked along, When the birds sat and sung odden each bough, I overheard a fair maid, she was singing a song. I heard a young damsel thus singin’, He travell’d through England, through France Take this for my farewell and latest adieu, The song that she did sing, and the words Thedden as she sat milkin’ her cow. and through Spain, Sing willow, willow, willow, repelid [replied] she: Till he ventured his life on the watery main; She sang with a voice so melodious, Write this on my tomb, that in love I was true. ‘Of all the lads in England is the sailor lad And he came to a house where he lodged for Which made me scarce able to go, O willow, willow, willow, willow, for me.’ a night, For my heart it was smother’d with sorrow, O willow, willow, willow, willow shall be And in that same house was his own You may know a jolly sailor lad as he walks By the pretty maid milkin’ her cow. my garland; heart’s delight. Sing all a green willow, willow, willow, willow; down the street, Aye me the green willow must be my garland. He is so neat in his clothing, and so tight on The Lost Lady Found When she saw him she knew him and fled his feet. 5 ’Twas down in yon valley a fair maid did dwell; to his arms; Six Dukes Went Afishin’ His teeth are white as ivory and his eyes black She lived with her uncle, they all knew She told him her grief while he gazed on 2 Six Dukes went afishin’ don by yon sea-saed; as sloes; full well. her charms. Won of them spied a dead body lain by the You may know a jolly sailor boy by the way ’Twas down in yon valley where violets grew gay, ‘How came you to Dublin, my dearest, I pray?’ waatersaed. that he goes. Three gypsies betrayed her and stole her away. ‘Three gypsies betrayed me and stole me away.’

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‘Your uncle’s in England, in prison does lie, Now when that they came to the second mile No for a soldier Willyum ’listed, ‘If you rise earli in the mornin’, And for your sweet sake is condemned for to die.’ post Creepin’ Jane she was far behind, O; For a soldier he ’as gone; Early by the brek of day, ‘Carry me to Old England, my dearest,’ Then the rider flung his whip around her He’s gone and left sweet loveli Sally There you will spy bold Willyum Taylor, she cried; bonny little neck Foer to sigh adden foer to mourn. Walkin’ with this lady gay.’ One thousand I’ll give thee and will be And he said: ‘My little lassie nivver mind,’ Then she rose earli in the mornin’, your bride.’ Lol the day de ay, the diddell ol the di do. Sally’s parents thae controlled ’er – Filled ’er ’eart foll of greef and woe; Early by the brek of day, When they came to Old England, her uncle Now when that they came to the third mile post, And then at last she vowed an’ said And there she spied bold Willyum Taylor, to see, Creepin’ Jane she looked blithe and smart, O; For a soldier she would go. Walking with this lady gay. The cart it was under the ’igh gallows tree. Addend then she lifted up her little lily And then she called for a brace of pistils, ‘Oh pardon, oh pardon, oh pardon I crave! white foot She dressed herseddelf idden man’s apparil, A brace of pistils at her comand, I’m alive! I’m alive! I’m alive! Your dear life to And she fleu past them all like a dart, Man’s appariddel she pot on; And there she shot bold Willyum Taylor, save!’ Lol the day de ay, the diddell ol the di do. Adden for to seek bold Willyum Taylor, With his bride at his right hand. And for te seek him she ’as gone. Then from the high gallows they led him Now Creepin’ Janey this race has won and And then the capten he was well pleezed, away; scarceli sweats one drop, O; Won day as she was exercisin’, Was well pleezed what she had done; Their bells they did ring and their music Why she’s able for to gallop the ground Exercisin’ amongst the rest; And there he made her a gret comaddender did play. o’er again, With a silver chean hung down Aboard of a ship, aver al his men. Ev’ry house in that valley with mirth did resound While the others is not able for to trot, her waastcoat, As soon as they heard the lost lady was found. Lol the day de ay, the diddell ol the di do. And there he spied her lily-white breast. La la la… (etc.) Now Creepin’ Janey she’s dead and gone, and And then the capten he stepped up to her, Leezie Lindsay 8 her body lies odden the cold ground, O; Ast her what had brought her there; Will ye gang to the Hielands, Leezie Lindsay? Creepin’ Jane I’ll go down to her master, one favor for Will ye gang to the Hielands wi me? 6 I will sing you a song, and a very pretty one ‘I’ve come te seek my own treo lover, to beg; He has proved to me sovere.’ Will ye gang to the Hielands, Leezie Lindsay? concernin’ Creepin’ Jane, O; For to keep her little body from the hounds, My bride and my darling to be? Why she never saw a mare or a geldin’ in her life Lol the day de ay, the diddell ol the di do. ‘If you’ve come te seek yer own true lover, To gang to the Hielands wi you, sir? That she validd to the worth of half a pin, Pray tell to me his name.’ Lol the day de ay, the diddell ol the di do. I dinna ken how that may be, ‘His name it is boldeld Willyum Taylor, For I ken na the land that ye live in, When Creepin’ Jane on the racecourse come, O from Lichfeeddeld town he came.’ Nor ken I the lad I’m gaun wi. the gentlemen viewidd her all around, O; Bold William Taylor ‘If his name it is bold Willyum Taylor, Addend all they had to say coddncernin’ 7 I’ll sing you a song about two lovers, Leezie lassie ‘tis little that ye ken, And he has proved to you sovere, little Jane: O from Lichfeedeleld town tha came; If sae be ye dinna ken me, He’s got married to adden Irish lady, ‘She’s not able for to galop o’er the ground,’ The young man’s name was Willyum Taylor, For my name is Lord Ronald Macdonald, He got married the other yeer.’ Lol the day de ay, the diddell ol the di do. The maaden’s name was Sally Gray. A chieftain o high degree.

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She has kilted her coats o green satin, O sea that my true love hast drowned, Then ben [through] the house cam’ Lady Bell, I met my mates in the morning (I’ll never meet She has kilted them up to the knee, Thou hast reft me of joy evermore; ‘Gude troth ye need na craw, them more!) And she’s aff wi Lord Ronald Macdonald, Thy waves make me shudder with fear Maybe the lad will fancy me, They came and went in legions that darkened His bride and his darling to be. As I listen and hear their wild roar. And disappoint ye a’.’ all the shore. Doun the stair tripped Lady Jean, And through the foam-flecked offing as far as My true love and I, hand in hand, The flower amang them a’, voice could reach, Often wandered the uplands among, Bonnie George Campbell ‘O lasses trust in Providence We hailed the landing parties and sang them up 9 Where the wild flowers are freshest to see, High upon Hielands and laigh upon Tay, An’ ye’ll get husbands a’.’ the beach. Bonnie George Campbell rade out on a day, And the wild birds are freest of song. When on his horse he rade awa’ The Beaches of Lukannon the winter wheat Wi’ saddle and bridle sae gallant to see; But alas for the days that are gone, They gathered round the door, so tall Hame cam’ his guid horse but never cam’ he. Alas for my sorrow and me! He gaily waved his bonnet blue, The dripping, crinkled lichens, the sea fog Alas that my true love is drowned Doun cam’ his mithr dear greetin’ fu’ sair They set up sic a roar, drenching all! Fathoms down in the depths of the sea! [crying severe], Their cries, their tears brocht Willie back, The platforms of our playground, all shining And out ran his bonnie bride rivin’ [tearing] He kissed them ane an’ a’, smooth and worn! her hair; ‘O lasses bide till I come hame The Beaches of Lukannon the home where we ‘My meadow lies green and my corn is unshorn, And then I’ll wed ye a’.’ were born! My barn is to bigg and my babe is unborn.’ Willie’s Gane to Melville Castle I met my mates in the morning, a broken, 11 O Willie’s gane to Melville Castle, Lukannon Saddles and bridled and booted rade he, scattered band. Boots and spurs an’ a’, 12 I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I A plume in his helmet, a sword at his knee; Men shoot us in the water and club us on To bid the leddies a’ fareweel am old!) But toom [empty] cam’ his saddle a’ bluidy the land; Before he gaed awa’. Where roaring on the ledges the summer to see, Men drive us to the Salt House like silly sheep Willie’s young and blithe and bonnie, groundswell rolled. Hame cam’ his guid horse but never cam’ he. and tame, Lo’ed by ane an’ a’, I heard them lift the chorus that drowned the And still we sing Lukannon before the O what will all the lasses do breakers’ song, sealers came. Drowned When Willie gangs awa’? The Beaches of Lukannon two million 10 Wheel down, wheel down to southward! Oh, No wonder my heart is sore, The first he met was Lady Kate, voices strong! No wonder the tears that I weep; Gooverooska, go! She led him through the ha’, The song of pleasant stations beside the My true love I’ll see him no more, And tell the Deep Sea Viceroys the story of And wi’ a sad and sorry heart salt lagoons, He lies fathoms down in the deep. our woe; She loot the tear-drop fa’. The song of blowing squadrons that shuffled Ere, empty as the shark’s egg the tempest Beside the fire stood Lady Grace, down the dunes. He lies fathoms down in the deep, flings ashore, She ne’er a word ava [said]; The song of midnight dances that churned the Where the cold clammy seaweeds abound: The Beaches of Lukannon shall know their She thocht that she was sure o’ him sea to flame How cruel thy wild waves to me, sons no more! O sea that my true love hast drowned! Before he gaed awa’. The Beaches of Lukannon before the sealers came! Rudyard Kipling from ‘The Second Jungle Book’

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Merciful Town Ride with an Idle Whip ‘Oh our Fathers, in the churchyard, ‘Soldier, soldier come from the wars, 13 Over the edge of the purple down, 14 Ride with an idle whip, ride with an She is older than ye, I’ll up an’ tend to my true love?’ Where the single lamplight gleams, unused heel, And our graves will be the greener,’ ‘E’s lying on the dead with a bullet through Know ye the road to the Merciful Town But, once in a way, there will come a day Said the men of the sea. ’is ’ead, That is hard by the Sea of Dreams When the colt must be taught to feel Rudyard Kipling from ‘The Light That Failed’ An’ you’d best go look for a new love.’ Where the poor may lay their wrongs away, The lash that falls, and the curb that galls, and New love! True love!… And the sick may forget to weep? the sting of the rowelled steel. Soldier, soldier come from the wars, But we pity us! Oh, pity us! Rudyard Kipling from ‘Plain Tales from the Hills’ Do you bring no sign from my true love?’ We wakeful; ah, pity us! I bring a lock of ’air that ’e allus used to wear.’ We must go back with P’liceman Day An’ you’d best go look for a new love.’ Back from the City of Sleep! Northern Ballad Soldier, Soldier 17 New love! True love! 15 There were three friends that buried the fourth, ‘Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Weary they turn from the scroll Best go look for a new love, The mould in his mouth and the dust in Why don’t you march with my true love?’ and crown, The dead they cannot rise, an’ you’d better dry his eyes. ‘We’re fresh from off the ship an’ ’e’s maybe, Fetter and prayer and plough your eyes, And they went South, and East and North, give the slip, They that go up to the Merciful Town, An’ you’d best take me for your new love. The strong man fights but the sick man dies. An’ you’d best go look for a new love.’ For her gates are closing now. New love! True love! Rudyard Kipling from ‘Barrack-Room Ballads’ It is their right in the Baths of Night There were three friends that spoke of the dead. Best go look for a new love, Body and soul to steep, The strong man fights but the sick man dies. The dead they cannot rise, an’ you’d better dry But we pity us! Ah, pity us! ‘And would he were here with us now’, your eyes, We wakeful; oh, pity us! they said, An’ you’d best go look for a new love. Hard Hearted Barb’ra (H)Ellen We must go back with P’liceman Day ‘The sun in our face and the wind in our eyes.’ 18 In Scotland I was bred adden born, ‘Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Back from the City of Sleep! Rudyard Kipling from ‘The Light That Failed’ In Scotland was e my dwellin’; What did you see o’ my true love?’ And theere I coorted a pretty mäd, Over the edge of the purple down, ‘I seen ’im serve the queen in a suit o’ And her name was Bahbre (H)Ellen. Ere the tender dreams begin, The Men of the Sea rifle green, Look, we may look, at the Merciful Town, 16 ‘Ye that bore us, O restore us! An’ you’d best go look for a new love.’ I coorted her for a month or two, But we may not enter in! She is kinder than ye; New love! True love!… Thinkin’ I should gan her favor; Outcasts all from her guarded wall For the call is at our heart-strings!’ But never to me did she prove kind, ‘Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Back to our watch we creep: Said the men of the sea. For all the coort I paid ’er. We pity us! Ah, pity us! Did aught take ’arm to my true love?’ We wakeful; ah, pity us! ‘Ye that love us, can ye move us? ‘I couldn’t see the fight, for the smoke it lay Then I sent a servant to er e house, We that go back with P’liceman Day She is dearer than ye; so white The house that she did dwellin; Back from the City of Sleep. And your sleep will be the sweeter’ An’ you’d best go look for a new love.’ Said: ‘My master want te speak with you, Rudyard Kipling from ‘The City of Sleep’ Said the men of the sea. New love! True love!… If your name be Bahbre (H)Ellen.’

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Aw slowly, slowly she got up, Her mother dear, she made her a bed, Telling how the Count Arnaldos, With a keg full of gold and a velvet gown: And slowly she came nigh him; She made it both soft and shaller. With his hawk upon his hand, Ho, the bully rover Jack, And all she said, when she came theere; She turned her pale white face to the wall Saw a fair and stately galley, Waiting with his yard aback, ‘Yoong man, I think you’re dyin’.’ Addend death came creepin’ on her. Steering onward to the land; – Out upon the lowland sea!

Then he stretched oat his lily-white arms, The won was buried in the ’igh church-yard, How he heard the ancient helmsman The trader had a daughter fair, Thinkin’ to pull her to him; And the other in the kwier; Chant a song so wild and clear, Wake her up! Shake her up! She turned her back and went awaa. The won sprung up a red rose-bud, That the sailing sea birds slowly Try her with the foresail! Then he cried: ‘Hard hearted Bahbre And the other a green brier. Poised upon the mast to hear, The trader had a daughter fair, She had gold in her ears, and gold in her hair: (H)Ellen.’ Then they gree-oo and they gree-oo to the high Till his soul was full of longing, All for bully rover Jack, church top And he cried with impulse strong, As she was walkin’ the ’igh church-yard. Waiting with his yard aback, And could not get any higher. ‘Helmsman! for the love of heaven, She heard his death bell tollin’; Out upon the lowland sea! And they met and they tied of a tree-oo Teach me, too, that wondrous song!’ And every toll it seemed to sa lovers knot ‘Alas the day, oh daughter mine!’ ‘Hard hearted Bahbre (H)Ellen.’ Fower all the wurruld to admiyer. ‘Wouldst thou’, so the helmsman answered, Shake her up! Wake her up! ‘Learn the secret of the sea? As she was walkin’ the streets along Try her with the topsail! The Secret of the Sea Only those who brave its dangers She met his curpse a-comin’. ‘Alas the day, oh daughter mine! 19 Ah! What pleasant visions haunt me Comprehend its mystery!’ ‘La doan, la doan this curpse of cla [clay], Yon red, red flag is a fearsome sign!’ As I gaze upon the sea! That I may gaze epun ’im.’ In each sail that skims the horizon, Ho, the bully rover Jack, All the old romantic legends, In each landward blowing breeze, Reaching on the weather tack, And e when she saw his lily-white face, All my dreams, come back to me. I beheld that stately galley, Out upon the lowland sea! She could not forbeer smilin’; Sails of silk and ropes of sendal, Hear those mournful melodies; ‘A fearsome flag!’ the maiden cried, Then her parents cried, they cried and said: Such as gleam in ancient lore; Till my soul is full of longing Wake her up! Shake her up! ‘Hard hearted Bahbre (H)Ellen.’ And the singing of the sailors, For the secret of the sea, Try her with the jibsail! And the answer from the shore! And the heart of the great ocean ‘A fearsome flag!’ the maiden cried, She ceried and said: ‘O mother dear, Most of all, the Spanish ballad Sends a thrilling pulse through me. ‘But comelier men I have never spied!’ Make me a bed both soft and shaller; Haunts me oft, and tarries long, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from Ho, the bully rover Jack, For my true love has died tedaa Of the noble Count Arnaldos ‘By the Seaside’ Reaching on the weather tack, And I’ll die for him temorrer.’ And the sailor’s mystic song. Sailor’s Chanty Out upon the lowland sea! Her mother dear she made her a bed, Like the long waves on a sea-beach, 20 A trader sailed from Stepney town Where is the trader of Stepney town? Both soft and fit for dyin’. Where the sand as silver shines, Wake her up! Shake her up! Wake her up! Shake her up! ‘For O I ree-oo, for O I ree-oo, With a soft monotonous cadence, Try her with the mainsail! Ev’ry stick a-bending! I ree-oo that I denied him.’ Flow its unrhymed lyric lines; – A trader sailed from Stepney town, Where is the trader of Stepney town?

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There’s gold on the capstan, and blood on Shallow Brown the gown: 21 Shaller Brown, you’re goin’ ter leave me, Ho, for bully rover Jack, Shaller, Shaller Brown; Waiting with his yard aback, Shaller Brown, you’re goin’ ter leave me, Out upon the lowland sea! Shaller, Shaller Brown. Where’s the maiden who knelt at his side? Shaller Brown, don’t ne’er deceive me, Wake her up! Shake her up! Shaller, Shaller Brown; Ev’ry stitch a-drawing! Shaller Brown, don’t ne’er deceive me, Where’s the maiden who knelt at his side? Shaller, Shaller Brown. We gowned her in scarlet, and chose her You’re goin’ away accrost the ocean, our bride: Shaller, Shaller Brown; THE GRAINGER EDITION Ho, the bully rover Jack, You’re goin’ away accrost the ocean, Reaching on the weather tack, The Grainger Edition is an unprecedented and extensive cycle of recordings exploring the Shaller, Shaller Brown. Right across the lowland sea! complete output of one of music’s most original voices. You’ll ever be my heart’s devotion, So it’s up and it’s over to Stornoway Bay, The series features Grainger’s orchestral, chamber, solo song, choral and wind band Shaller, Shaller Brown; Pack it on! Crack it on! music. Amongst Grainger’s many folk-song arrangements are some of the world’s best- You’ll ever be my heart’s devotion, Try her with the stunsails! known pieces, but the series also reveals a richly rewarding body of original and previously Shaller, Shaller Brown. It’s off on a bowline to Stornoway Bay, unrecorded work. Where the liquor is good and the lasses For your return my heart is burning, We would like to inform you about other recordings in The Grainger Edition. Please are gay: Shaller, Shaller Brown; send your name and address to the The Grainger Edition, Chandos Records Ltd, Chandos Waiting for their bully Jack, For your return my heart is burning, House, Commerce Way, Colchester, Essex CO2 8HQ. Watching for him sailing back, Shaller, Shaller Brown. Right across the lowland sea. Shaller Brown, you’re goin’ ter leave me, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from Shaller, Shaller Brown; ‘The Voyage of Copley Banks’ Shaller Brown, don’t ne’er deceive me, Shaller, Shaller Brown.

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The Percy Grainger Society was founded publishers, Bardic Edition and Schott & Co. in June 1978 in London. It has of the order Ltd, and a new catalogue of his works is Already Released of five hundred members world wide. now available. For further information Membership is open to all by payment of please contact the Grainger an annual subscription, and for this members Secretary, Orchestral Works receive two journals a year and the Barry Peter Ould, Chan 9493 newsletter Random Round which keeps The Percy Grainger Society, them informed of international activities 6 Fairfax Crescent, in performance and scholarship. The Society Aylesbury, works in close co-operation with Grainger’s Buckinghamshire HP20 2ES.

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Producer & sound engineer Ralph Couzens Assistant engineer & editor Jonathan Cooper Recording venue Snape Maltings Concert Hall; 22–23 April 1996 Front cover Picture of Grainger courtesy of The Percy Grainger Society Design Jaquetta Sergeant Penelope Thwaites Booklet typeset by Michael White-Robinson Publisher Schott & Co (Tracks 1–5, 7, 16, 21); Bardic Edition (other works) Poetry copyright A.P. Watt Ltd on behalf of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (Tracks 12–17); Northolme Limited. Reproduced by kind permission of Jonathan Clowes Ltd, London, on behalf of Northolme Limited (Track 20). PP 1996 Chandos Records Ltd PC 1996 Chandos Records Ltd Chandos Records Ltd, Colchester, Essex, England Printed in the EU

38 39 CHAN 9503 Inlay.qxd 5/2/08 12:15 pm Page 1 GRAINGER EDITION VOL. 2: SONGS FOR BARITONE - Varcoe/Thwaites GRAINGER EDITION VOL. 2: SONGS FOR BARITONE - Varcoe/Thwaites bit CHANDOS DIGITAL CHAN 9503 20

Percy Grainger (1882–1961) Trad. 1 Willow Willow 3:55 2 Six Dukes Went Afishin’ 2:19 3 British Waterside 1:41 4 The Pretty Maid Milkin’ her Cow 1:22 * premier recording 5 The Lost Lady Found† 2:44 † premier recording in this version 6 Creepin’ Jane* 4:08 7 Bold William Taylor 3:39 8 - 11 Four settings from Songs of the North* 8:38 12 - 17 Six settings of Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)* 16:34 Trad. 18 Hard Hearted Barb’ra (H)Ellen 6:45 Chandos 20-bit Recording The Chandos policy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) being at the forefront of 19 The Secret of the Sea* 3:30 technology is now further advanced by the use of 20- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) bit recording. 20-bit has a 20 Sailor’s Chanty* 3:06 dynamic range that is up to 24dB greater and up to Trad. 16 times the resolution of 21 standard 16-bit recordings. Shallow Brown 5:08 These improvements now TT 64:50 let you the listener enjoy more of the natural clarity and ambience of the Stephen Varcoe baritone ‘Chandos sound’. HN9503 CHAN HN9503 CHAN CHANDOS CHANDOS Penelope Thwaites piano DDD

CHANDOS RECORDS LTD. p 1996 Chandos Records Ltd. c 1996 Chandos Records Ltd. Colchester . Essex . England Printed in the EU