Harmonium, four guitars, two mandolas, two mandolins, two ukuleles, piccolo, three clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, two alto saxophones, horn, strings, piano, baritone and choir: and that's just the scoring for one piece, the famous sea shanty Shallow Brown.
Grainger's Jungle Book cycle is here recorded for the first time. The eleven contrasting movements vividly portray the sentiments of Kipling's poetry and Grainger wrote of the cycle that it was 'composed as a protest against civilization'.
1. Shallow Brown
2. Jungle Book: The Fall Of The Stone
3. Jungle Book: Morning Song In The Jungle
4. Jungle Book: Night-Song In The Jungle
5. Jungle Book: The Inuit
6. Jungle Book: The Beaches Of Lukannon
7. Jungle Book: Red Dog
8. Jungle Book: The Peora Hunt
9. Jungle Book: Hunting-Song Of The Seeonee Pack
10. Jungle Book: Tiger! Tiger!
11. Jungle Book: The Only Son
12. Jungle Book: Mowgli's Song Against People
13. Jungle Book: Good-Bye To Love
14. Jungle Book: Died For Love
15. Jungle Book: The Power Of Love
16. Jungle Book: The Rival Brothers
17. Jungle Book: Six Dukes Went Afishin'
18. Jungle Book: The Sprig Of Thyme
19. Jungle Book: Willow, Willow
20. Jungle Book: Recessional
21. Jungle Book: Lord Maxwell's Goodnight
22. Jungle Book: The Three Ravens
23. Jungle Book: The Running Of Shindand
24. Jungle Book: Early One Morning
25. Jungle Book: The Love Song Of Har Dyal
26. Jungle Book: My Love's In Germanie |
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