The New Percy Grainger Companion by Penelope Thwaites, Alan W... - 9781783271856

The New Percy Grainger CompanionAuthor(s): Penelope Thwaites, Alan Woolgar, Astrid Britt Krautschneider, Barry Peter Ould, Brian Allison, Bruce Clunies Ross, Cara Aldridge Ham, David Walker, Geoffrey Simon, James Judd\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783271856, 978-1783271856\nSynopsis\nA new collection with contributions from performing musicians and Grainger scholars and a detailed Catalogue of Works.\n\nIn the thirty years since his Centenary in 1982 it has become even clearer that Percy Grainger [[tel]] - composer, pianist and revolutionary - was a man born out of his time. Many of his ideas, both musical and social, sit farmore easily in our contemporary world. Those thirty years have also seen a notable expansion of interest in Grainger's music. Innumerable recordings have been made, including the first complete Grainger recording survey by Chandos in its monumental Grainger Edition. The growth of R