I was fascinated that the Faeroe Island Dance in this late band version of 1954 has a pivoting ostinato for horns that echoes the opening of Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony, before launching into the dance proper with echoes of The Rite of Spring. The merry King is hardly merry at all, with a ruminative part for piano, a setting of a folk-song which Grainger collected in 1905 in the then evidently rural setting of Wimbledon!
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