Percy Grainger and Nina Grieg at the piano (Bergen Library, no known rights restrictions)
This blog tells the story of how digitisation for cultural heritage institutions can bring collections of material back together again, after over a century of separation. These collections concern the Australian-born composer and pianist, Percy Grainger.
The other collection comes from the Edvard Grieg Archive at the Bergen Library, Norway. This is acollection of letters from Percy Grainger– and his mother Rose – to the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and his wife, Nina. Percy Grainger visited Grieg in 1907, shortly before Grieg’s death. In one letter, in which he addresses Grieg as “Dear Master”,he writes of his enthusiasm for folksongand other influences on his creative output.
It’s fascinating to be able to see how these two collections are inter-related, now that they can be viewed on the same website.
As Europeana Music highlights these collections, please take a look at a related gallery comprising glass negatives from Royal Museums Greenwich. These wonderfully high quality photographs show the fishing vessels and communities in the U.K. from around the same time that Percy Grainger recorded his sea shanties. Perhaps those on the trawlers sang the very same sea shanties Grainger recorded, as they sailed far out to sea.
1. Radu Sorescu - Petre Tutea. Viata si opera 2. Zaharia Stancu - Jocul cu moartea
3. Mihail Sebastian - Orasul cu salcimi
4. Ioan Slavici - Inchisorile mele
5. Gib Mihaescu - Donna Alba
6. Liviu Rebreanu - Ion
7. Cella Serghi - Pinza de paianjen
8. Zaharia Stancu - Descult
9. Henriette Yvonne Stahl - Intre zi si noapte
10.Mihail Sebastian - De doua mii de ani
11. George Calinescu Cartea nuntii 12. Cella Serghi Pe firul de paianjen…
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