Lincolnshire Posy - Percy Aldridge Grainger, Eastman Wind Ensemble

The definitive recording of Percy Grainger's masterwork for the concert band. This is the Eastman Wind Ensemble performing "Lincolnshire Posy" under the baton of Frederick Fennell.

[@brucekuehn4031]

When your grandchildren are in band, this piece will be there waiting for them.

[@rmulley1800]

I played this 48-years ago with a select band at the University of Illinois. I was 11. I remember listening to the Eastman recording back then. I later played under Fredrick Fennell at an all state band and orchestra festival when I was 18. I remember Fennell as a no nonsense guy who knew what he wanted and wasn't afraid to ask for it; even from high school students. One of the last great band proponents.

[@ralph3744]

Your to old to be on KZbin sir I'm sorry

[@bassoonplatoon3146]

@@ralph3744 you're

[@Grovyle90]

@@ralph3744 You're too young to be listening to Grainger on KZbin.... Sorry....

[@sethdaigle9008]

We are playing all 6 movements for our spring concert for high school. Wish us all the luck we can get. We are also playing Cajun Folk Songs, and Shenandoah as well. God bless us all

[@gershon1949]

I had the honor to perform with the Eastman Wind Ensemble during the 1968-1971 period under Donald Hunsberger. A great ensemble with so much history.

[@golfhack3581]

This is one of-if not the best-recordings of this great masterpiece I’ve ever heard! So balanced and clear you can hear every part. Thanks maestro Fennell and the Eastman Wind Ensemble!

[@lfdow]

I've played and conducted this many times, I think it's the greatest piece ever written for wind ensemble and I agree this is the absolutely PERFECT recording. It's just GREAT!!

[@jenniferbenson7782]

Greatest piece for wind ensemble??? Nah!

[@lfdow]

Of course it is - what else?

[@jenniferbenson7782]

Louis Dow Well, you are certainly entitled to your opinion.

[@josephthomas113]

First suite in E flat!

[@lfdow]

Joe Thomas Yes, the E-flat Suite is a wonderful piece of music, but it's much more traditional, excellent for sure, but a piece that sounds specifically for band.. In Lincolnshire, Granger uses the ensemble better. There's more sonorities, he pushes the instruments more, it's more inventive, it's just a more interesting piece.

[@RichardFenno]

Never equalled! This is truly the definitive version of Percy Grainger's masterpiece for band.

[@simplyhamm]

As a percussion student in 1994, I remember being kind of bored with this piece, yet I still liked parts of it. I've not really heard it since then until this recording... my God, how stupid was I to think this was boring? I remember much more than I thought I would. Maybe I just needed age to knock some sense into me. What a great piece and fantastic recording!

[@markjuarez6469]

Michael Hamm It takes maturity to separate your own involvement from your perceived enjoyment of the piece.

[@elainebmack]

I've had that same experience with many pieces. It takes time to step back and truly absorb all that's going on.

[@albert6307]

I went through the same thing when I was introduced to John Barnes Chance in college. I just didn't get it. It didn't make sense. Then a few years later when I started teaching and preparing bands for state contest, it started falling into place. In later years I reached out to my professor who conducted our college wind ensemble and told him about that. He said the same thing. Time and maturity builds your understanding of what these composers made.

[@henrygingercat]

An astonishing piece full of the most amazing rhythmic and harmonic ingenuity and a great performance. 15 minutes of unadulterated bliss.

[@amayaard7903]

0:00 - Movement 1: Lisbon (Sailors Song) 1:35 - Movement 2: Horkstow Grange (The Miser and his Man: A Local tragedy) 4:26 - Movement 3: Rufford Park Poachers (Poaching Song) 8:10 - Movement 4: The Brisk Young Sailor (Who Returned to Wed his True-Love) 9:50 - Movement 5: Lord Melbourne (War Song) 12:45 - Movement 6: The Lost Lady Found (Dance Song)

[@makenzileg]

Amaya Ard Bless you!

[@UbiqMan]

The first movement is called Lisbon...

[@padraicfanning7055]

And that's not how you spell "Horkstow" either...

[@seanmccann8368]

Thank you for that.

[@amayaard7903]

I'm sorry! I was just going off the titles from the PDF I have from IMSLP

[@elainebmack]

This is my Number One All Time Favorite concert band work! The inventive, interesting harmonies and tonal contrasts are very satisfying to the ear. I'm a cellist, and will never get to play this wonderful work which is my misfortune, but I can sure listen to it and enjoy it!

[@Patrick-eu6gi]

The horn at the second movement is so beautiful. It definitely makes me feel something

[@sabrinalangevin6622]

this is everything. The second movement is so beautiful it brings a tear to my eye every single time. Maybe it is the beauty of the piece, maybe it is the nostalgia of playing this piece in high school in front of thousands of people.

[@elainebmack]

I don't get people who listen to something and give it a thumbs down. If you don't like it listen to something else! Fie on you!!!

[@navygye1]

In the repertoire of band music, this is one of the finest. A joy to perform.

[@jon7696]

That clarinet tone at 8:09 is just beautiful!

[@brianbaumgarn5795]

Many would pick this piece of music to have if they could only listen to one before they die. It truly does have everything. It shows that even though some of the music isn't technically difficult, so many nuances should be played.

[@bartoconnor6531]

Played this almost 50 years ago with the University of Colorado concert band. It made a stunning impression on me. Truly one of the standout pieces for band.

[@jamescraddock9783]

Five dislikes?? Five people with no humanity. Five people with no Heart. Five people with no Soul.

[@michaelsimpson6970]

Five people who didn't like the mistakes.

[@tylergandee5318]

5 people who looked up Percy Grainger

[@georgeryan5634]

I know this is somewhat of an unpopular opinion and I love most of Grainger's works but I particularly dislike this piece for some reason

[@mauricioperez7625]

James Craddock yet your the one saying they have no soul...🤔

[@samuelellenberger9736]

They’re alto clarinet players

[@aeroplano111]

@ CJ Blair: Fennell is quoted as saying about the printed tempo mark: "It dies at that speed!" and it is said that when Fennell showed Grainger this recording, Grainger completely agreed. He was remarked as saying (about the tempo Fennell had taken): "That's it."

[@matthewberry5427]

Kyle Aufderhar for which movement?

[@aeroplano111]

"Rufford Park Poachers"

[@null0byte]

Really? There was another recording I have a CD of somewhere around here, they took the song a bit slower (not much mind you) and had a lot more lower-end, and it sounded more dramatic than this one. Having said that, I really like this recording a lot, it's happier and more, oh goodness this sounds awkward, but more like a British fairy tale fantasy, which is always how I envisioned this suite. I could easily see Disney making this entire suite it's own sort of Fantasia. My only gripe is there's too much dead space in between each movement. Outside of that, this is really freaking awesome.

[@AntPDC]

+ Keith Agreed about the lack of lower-end. There's congestion too, and compressed dynamic range when compared with more recent recordings. Even so, for a 1958 recording this is remarkable. And of course the performance is definitive.

[@percygraingersociety6772]

Fennell visited the Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne and once he saw the manuscript agreed that it is eight note = 132. He told a member of the Grainger Society he'd change it at the next printing.

[@visibleconfusion5353]

We played this for my junior year of high school. I love this piece!

[@yvonnecontreras1815]

This brings back memories of my high school freshman year when I made wind ensemble. I had never played a piece with more emotion in my life so I keep coming back to it. That is how big of an impact this song had on me.💕

[@larryjohnson450]

Outstanding performance of one of the greatest compositions ever- Love the Eastman Wind Ensemble with Fennell!

[@TimothyReeves]

Got to play under the baton of Frederick Fennell one day in high school wind ensemble....didn't get to play this unfortunately....he was so full of life even at 70+ years old...Love the harmonies, especially on Lord Melbourne.

[@mfhightower]

Never tired of hearing this piece.

[@michaelfarmer8253]

What excellent music and what a fine rendition. I had the honor of playing this in the 60s under the direction of the late, great John B Robbins. What a blast. A great tympani part. Thanks for the memories

[@Davidsdaze]

LOVED playing this.

[@alanschmid6599]

Everyone should play an instrument. I say that because while I do believe that the casual listener can enjoy this piece, it cannot be truly and completely appreciated unless it has been played. Even just listening to it now, I still get the same feelings of anticipation during the build at 11:40, as I did twenty-odd years ago when playing it. Remembering the first read through and thinking "this sounds like two different parts playing against each other" or "Why is the conductor dancing a jig while we're in this 6/8 section?" Go practice, people. ;)

[@grahamm3139]

A beautiful performance of a beautiful piece.

[@MrGer2295]

Remembering PERCY GRAINGER (1882 - 1961) on his birthday !

[@AweL3ss]

When your high school ensemble is playing this...

[@erickobannon5150]

Awful Muffins lmao that was a while ago for me but I can relate. Im having a lotta flashbacks of good times playing this piece :)

[@aaronlaughlin2389]

Erick O'Bannon same here

[@natjohnson2009]

Doesn't get much better than this.

[@_ADINFINITUM]

5 people never played in a high school band. EDIT: 49 people

[@TickleMeElmo55]

Haha! I never played this in band, but when my older brother played it on his iphone I said something to the effect that it sounded like a quintessential band piece.

[@Katewooly2026]

In my band, We played the second movement tho

[@matthewleininger8079]

45*

[@nightcorestar5977]

Playing this song this year

[@Grovyle90]

@@matthewleininger8079 50**

[@claudewhite9741]

They've edited that infamous attack at 3:43 from the trombones in the original recording! If you ever see that LP put in on and listen to the spot; it's outrageous.

[@MrRicmarc]

One of my All Time favorites.

[@ddvame]

Oh YEAH - this is bringing back all kinds of band memories - this piece in particular channels pure terror remembering those exposed piccolo solos during symphonic band competitions! Agree with some of the other posters that this piece is much more appealing to me as an adult than it was when I was 17! :) Thanks Mr. Lloyd Ross, band director extraordinaire for having us play such advanced material in HS!

[@Urbexbat]

I played this in the first year on the special orchestra in my band, I was the only senior flutest and everyone was stunned i got in

[@AutumnChidester]

Last year in school I played movements 2 and 6. I just got around to listening to the whole thing!

[@tommytimp]

The full wind corps kicking in at 0:23 always makes my hair stand on end. One of the greatest moments in music history.

[@jennconducts]

The best.

[@facemash]

Who clicked dislike on this? Shameful.

[@julizwiebel]

***** and why?

[@darkruler528]

julizwiebel same reason i did

[@julizwiebel]

SagesFury so what reason?

[@darkruler528]

because i was bored and like pissing people off

[@k4eru20]

I do love the music, and I didn't dislike it, but I do dislike that Percy Grainger was racist, and one could find that reason enough to dislike the piece

[@mpowe9762]

I'm really surprised that I'm the only one who's upset that the alto clarinet is missing in the last movement. You cannot say this is the perfect recording if it's missing such an exposed and important solo. I honestly expect more from one of the top, if not top, university bands in the world.

[@maxabeles]

Powell, please stand down.

[@theclarinetpimp9947]

Mr. Powell is right even if it is just one movement the alto clarinet changes the entirety of how the song sounds. Especially in the sixth movement.

[@RossiniSoprano]

Michael Powell Not only is it missing in the last movement, but it's missing throughout the piece. Grainger alto clarinet parts are not OPTIONAL....he always uses that voice for very specific things, and without it, you really aren't doing justice to his music. For instance, the alto clarinet part in the first movement is not like the bass clarinet part, nor is it like any of the soprano clarinet parts....it really bridges the gap between them. Also, THIRD movement, anyone?

[@Kythos]

What was Fennell's comment on this?

[@theoodoramiller1232]

I praise this, since I’m the only alto clarinet in my school and have to play this piece in our high school performance.

[@DankCornbread]

Playing this for UIL this year. Stoked

[@aeroplano111]

Where do you go to school? I used to live in Boerne, TX and my high school band played some great stuff.

[@DankCornbread]

Oak Ridge in Conroe, TX

[@almamoreno8582]

DankCornbread My band is playing it as well ! Lopez HS Brownsville, TX

[@zachbelles7101]

+LitCamAct1 playing all movements this year (north central college)

[@drummerbotelho1999]

+DankCornbread Taunton High is doing movements 1,2,5 and 6 of this absolutely gorgeous piece. we are also playing Awayday by Adam Gorb.

[@darrenmaschino2785]

Hope fully one day my band i play in will sound like this.

[@ehelwagen]

I loved playing this, too!!!! It has the best English horn part ever!

[@jenniferbenson7782]

I prefer Dvorak's English Horn solo part in his 9th Symphony.

[@felixfuller6895]

I feel like that's an unfair comparison, but he did say best English Horn part ever.

[@marsvltor2]

If we're talking orchestral Cor Anglais solos, what about the gem from the slow movement of the Karelia Suite (Sibelius)?

[@shelleyj119]

I love this piece!

[@zoran.rosendahl]

This piece is AMAZING!

[@lowellthomasjr.468]

Richard Kole conducted a very infamous version of this at Del Mar College, featuring the piccolo of Liz Castano, the clarinet of Don Grant and the cornet of the legendary David De La Pena in 1967.

[@Sunbeargirl-]

THIS IS AMAZING!!!! :D Thank you so much for posting this piece, especially since it's performed by Eastman Wind Ensemble. They are truly amazing; thank you SOOO much, yet again. :D

[@MK-ok6xr]

Eastman class of ‘04. Represent.

[@jameswginn]

Thanks for posting this--I have the LP but am too lazy to play records anymore.

[@盈孜]

the piccolo is so beautiful.

[@pokemon20god]

We're playing several movements for this for all-state!

[@ygsttp2691]

seth r I'm playing this in my symphonic band

[@佐々木保-h9n]

グレンジャー、素晴らしい作品などで大好きです。 子供たちの行進も。 ここでのイーストマンの演奏もメリハリが利き日本人好みかな。

[@jonathanmacpac]

Five people who think real music is three chords and a cloud of dust.

[@mrpankau]

Great use of orchestration!

[@richardkeller3154]

Before anyone decides which rendition is 'best', check out the Chandos released version as part of their "Grainger Edition" - 19 (!) or more CD volumes two of which have (some) of Grainger's band works. The Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra under Clark Rundell and Timothy Reynish did the recording released in 1997. I haven't found it on KZbin but it might be available for purchase. This is probably my favorite version (except perhaps Lord Melbourne - doesn't 'bellow-brag' enough, ala Fennell/NavyBand).

[@paulhorn27]

The harmonies, sonoroties, rhythms, textures, and melodies...Grainger was really in a class by himself...

[@jena234]

Piccolo sounds so awesome

[@ricklopez2314]

Great performance.

[@kahlilwyatt]

that moment at 12:15 chills

[@connorbigelow8664]

One rehearses Percy Grainger until it becomes familiar, at which point it is preformed to an unsuspecting audience who doesn't get it. This separation lasts the duration of one's life.

[@timothyengle4681]

Movement Two = Best funeral song ever

[@larryjohnson450]

Timothy Engle A Horn player's dream come true!

[@tserkoslavjanskij]

+Timothy Engle It's a fine movement. But if you'll allow me to mix genres, I suggest you listen to the requiems of Brahms, Mozart, or Verdi. True, they are choral compositions. But they contain movements that can scare the devil out of just about anyone; movements that can open a vision of heaven unlike any other a person will ever see on this earth.

[@s14sher]

The last movement makes me want to rewatch the Conan movies.

[@kenziemorris3548]

Playing bass saxophone for this! :-)

[@pooflingerize]

I'm playing bass clarinet for this!

[@TheMCAsians]

+pooflingerize same!

[@pooflingerize]

+Mark Landin awesome! :D

[@krimz6456]

+Jonathan Aviles Playing Soprano for this in my high school band 😄😄

[@kimberlywestenberg8081]

me too! except I'm using a contra bass clarinet

[@freezor80]

Horkstow Grange, the second movement of this peace is one of the fines pieces, in my opinion, in all of classical music.

[@PorkChopHero6501]

freezor80 it shall be played at my wedding and my funeral

[@FlipJanson_]

It's my second favorite, next to "Nocturne" from Incidental Suite.

[@danielregalado1049]

3:35 I get the biggest chilled ever Especially when the trombone do their hits

[@brianbaumgarn5795]

Frederick Fennel could probably direct this in his sleep, and he'd hear it too, if you made a mistake, LOL

[@temp_name_change_later]

Playing this this year, too bad my band director won't let me play soprano sax :/

[@TheRichie63]

Piccolo in Poachers.... Poached my lips...

[@cassandraneira2343]

principle horn!!

[@feinstei]

The Eastman Wind Ensemble was unique in that they weren't a "band" but rather the wind instruments from an orchestra (with the addition of a String Bass and saxophones etc) without parts doubling. For example... in this piece, there were 4 trumpet parts. Thus the Eastman Wind Ensemble had only 4 trumpets in it. If the composer wrote separate parts for cornets and trumpets, Fennell would populate the wind ensemble to have those parts. If the composer wrote a part for both Eb and BBb tubas, there would be two tubas but no more.

[@cartgis]

horn boo boo at 11:28?

[@jeremyford3522]

yes, probably one of the hundreds of misprints at the time of this recording that wen't unchecked. If you don't know how it was "supposed" to sound, it doesn't sound wrong.

[@krista8992]

Love 12:50

[@fastfingers110]

most outstanding piece of music; i have played it. I find the rest of his music some what less outstanding

[@jaxsontanski5905]

Where’s the words to it?

[@fortepiano4491]

Percy Grainger is the closest we'll ever get to a modern-day Mozart.

[@gregoryronnback2756]

Hear! Hear!

[@rugcutter284]

4:28 should be 1/8 = 132 oops

[@AccentGrave]

In the round-table discussion of Lincolnshire Posy on the U.S Navy Band channel, one of the many discussed topics were tempo. It was stated that Fennell thought that the beginning died at the indicated tempo, so he took it faster.

[@ravioli-chan1699]

Hey gamers

[@baconboi4482]

M3rk .mp3 did you get that whole wheat product comrade?

[@Trombotimo]

Don't like the interpretation, but the music piece is phenomenal!!!

[@alexmiller7132]

my highschool turned this into a marching band show go mountain view

[@luca6821]

Tf was that at 8:40? Do you wanna kill we poor clarinets...

[@henrygingercat]

Does anyone else think the young sailor in the fourth movement was perhaps a bit too brisk and that the piece is in fact a musical portrait of premature ejaculation?

[@rfo453]

#FreeKodak

[@A60stock]

If you like this you will like the whole album available for download at iTunes itunes.apple.com/gb/album/contrasts-in-wind/id614213859

[@cjblair2586]

They really rush through that third movement. It's like they're scared of falling in the cracks of that changing meter.

[@BruceRichardsonMusic]

Fennell had Grainger's blessing on that tempo.

[@ChrisToomey-zm5pg]

Does anyone else hear the wrong note in the horn at 11:30? Isn't it supposed to be a D major chord, with the horn holding a concert F#? He is playing concert F and making it a minor chord. I don't have the score in front of me, but I'm pretty sure...was this a difference in the manuscript? I can't imagine this group/Fennell holding a wrong note for 4 beats!

[@mariajesusortega4116]

Muchas gracias por compartir este vídeo, no conocía esta obra, me ha gustado mucho . Siempre aprendiendo. Un saludo.

[@mariajesusortega4116]

JOSE GONZALEZ . GRACIAS

[@RedRooster0912]

For Lord Melbourne they held those last chords for like 2 seconds, those are supposed to be huge!

[@DMoney75]

Best...Music...EVER!!

[@kennethchung1918]

Flugelhorn: Broke Soprano Sax: W O K E

[@andyk6767]

0:30 sound is so smooth you could spread it on toast

[@samsoto338]

I played this song when I was a senior in high school in Wind Ensemble. When I was a senior in high school, my dog was acting all lethargic ever since from Christmas weekend till after april break. I was so stressed about him. Fearing that he might have cancer. The next day when my dad took him to the vet, I became so stressed about what was going to happen with him. In Wind Ensemble when I was so stressed about what was going to happen to him and I was playing this song in my band while I was stressed. Hard part about it was, he had lymphoma and died from lymphoma at age 10 1/2 and the vet didn't catch it in time. He died 2 weeks before my high school graduation. Every time I listen to this song it makes me feel like the vet could've done better at testing my dog for cancer when he was throwing up back christmas weekend. Dogs do not have the ability to tell their owner "we're not well" and they don't have the ability to open doors like humans.

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensen7989]

Anybody else getting Disney vibes from at least one of these pieces?

[@ralph3744]

no

[@TakatoEndou]

Why dafuq is the opening of Rufford Park Poachers SOOO fast and rushed O.o

[@chef2be10]

I played this song 12 years ago for my high school Senior Honors band concert. I've always loved this song. I play for a community band now and hope to play this again sometime soon!

[@bassoonplatoon3146]

I love this piece so much that I think 1,000 of these views are just mine.

[@hannahlucas7436]

last year we played movement 6 and this year we're playing movement 2! amazing piece.

[@crsieg56]

Playing 2 and 6 currently in high school, my favorites of this piece

[@DarthMooMoooey]

I’m playing this in marching band this year and it’s great