Percy Grainger speaks and plays (1948) скачать в хорошем качестве

Percy Grainger speaks and plays (1948)

Percy Grainger (1882-1961) was a multi-talented universalist who wanted to embrace and encompass all the arts... he was not only a musician, but also a folklorist, editor, musicologist, lecturer, writer, inventor etc etc. Playing the piano was just one of his many interests... though he had enough skills to impress Busoni and Grieg with his playing, and he had original ideas about phrasing, making contrasts and pedaling. Here at 2:33 we can hear him play Claude Debussy's "Pagodes" (from "Estampes") during a recital at the University of Texas in 1948. Before he plays he briefly talks about the influence of Oriental music on Debussy, notably the Javanese gamelan orchestras that Debussy heard for the first time during the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1888 (or 1889?).