Five-Part Fantasy No. 15 (arr. Grainger)

Composer: JENKINS, John
  • This piece was originally one of Jenkins’ many works for viol consort.
  • Percy Grainger was fascinated by this genre and made modern orchestral arrangements of several pieces of early English consort music.

“Above all, they unfold the angelic mood, the sustained rapture, the complexity of musical thought, the glowing sonority, the breadth of form-flow so native to the strings.”

Percy Grainger, on English viol consort music1

Sources

  1. Malcolm Gillies, “Grainger, Early Music, Democracy and Freedom,” Grainger Studies 1 (2001): 26.

Cut IDs

49595