Anuradha Sivagurunat wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a recording that might make me pleasently surprised???
Now I have no idea whether this recording is available on CD, but I would
certainly recommend at least listening to the RCA recording of Percy
Grainger's piano roll (1919) Vorsetzer performance with the 1978 Sydney SO,
John Hopkins, cond. Grainger's original roll was a tour 'd force piano and
orchestral reduction all in one. All the orchestral holes in the roll had
to be blocked out.
Early in this century Grainger was considered the premier interpreter of
this work. I'm impressed by the performance; but then again it's the only
one I have. This is more due to Grainger than Grieg. The coupling is
Stokowski's 1950 recordings of more of Percy.
Greg Bright