Molly on the Shore, folk song for piano (BFMS 19)

• Date: 1907 -1918
• Composer: Percy Grainger
• Period: Post-Romantic (1870-1909)

Review

Grainger's source for this lively piece was the Complete Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, edited by composer Charles Villiers Stanford. Grainger cribbed two tunes, actually, both of them reels from County Cork: "Temple Hill" and "Molly on the Shore." Grainger's treatment keeps the pianist's fingers flying, although he employs such a wide variety of dynamics and coloristic effects that it never seems like a cheap knuckle-buster. He introduces the two tunes almost unharmonized, then slaps them through a short series of lively variations, jolting from one dynamic extreme to the other and enveloping it all in extremely detailed pedaling directions. ~ James Reel, Rovi

Albums with Complete Performances of the Work

Title	Date
A Classical Knight
Grainger: Dished up for the piano	1986
Grainger: Piano Music	1996
Grainger: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 2	2002
In Classical Mood: Sounds of the Sea	1998
Kreisler, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and others
Percy Grainger Plays...
Percy Grainger plays Grainger	1997
Percy Grainger: Dished up for Piano, Vol. 3	1990
Piano Music Of Percy Grainger	1961
The Aeolian Company	2008
The Creators
The Magnificent Steinway

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