New Video / Recording : Percy Grainger : Colonial Song

In 2021, as part of Albany’s Wind Power Festival, I was commissioned to perform the Colonial Song by Percy Grainger. I was previously unfamiliar with the work, and have thoroughly enjoyed learning it.

Those of you in the Great Southern may have heard me performing this piece at various concerts throughout the second half of the year. I needed to perform it several times in order to secure my interpretation.

I am very pleased to present this YouTube video, with a performance accompanied with the score, and various delicious bits of melody and counter-melody coloured in for fun and clarity.

It has been a genuine pleasure getting into the nuance of Grainger's language.

I have elected to use a sampled Bösendorfer 290, instead of the usual Bechstein D-280. EastWest cannot be thanked enough in their tireless work in sampling and reproduction - simply amazing.