Ronald Stevenson and Percy Grainger both treated folksong with the same reverence they held for high art, seeing no dividing line between the two idioms.
Album & Artwork
All the pieces on this album are receiving their first recordings.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ronald Stevenson's piano music on this album is influenced by and pays homage to Percy Grainger, a composer known for his folk music arrangements.
Recording & Production
The recording was made at Wyastone Hall, Monmouthshire, UK, with two different Steinway Model D pianos used for various tracks.
Compositional Technique
Percy Grainger often built huge variety into each 'verse' of his folk-inspired pieces by varying orchestration and pitch-range, a technique Ronald Stevenson also adopted in his transcriptions.
Composition History
The Young Person's Solo Album, a collection of fifteen pieces by Percy Grainger, was edited, transcribed, and collated by Ronald Stevenson in 1966 to introduce young people to composers whose music was unfashionable at the time.
Composer Biography
Percy Grainger was the first ethnomusicologist to record folk-singers in the field, using an Edison Bell phonograph in England between 1906 and 1909.
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