Ella Grainger
FAREWELL TO AN ATOLL for voice & piano
Bardic Edition BDE725
for voice (man’s or woman’s) and piano (simplified). Ella Grainger’s Farewell to an Atoll is a setting of one of her own poems to her own original melody, which was harmonized and scored by Percy Grainger between 1944 and 1945. The song was inspired by a painting of a coral atoll given to Ella by the New Zealand artist, H. Neville-Smith. The painting currently hangs in the Grainger Home and Studio in White Plains, NY. This simplified arrangement by Ronald Stevenson was made in 1979 to celebrate Ella’s 90th birthday on the 1st of May that year and along with 4 of Ella’s other songs has been recorded by Della Jones (mezzo soprano) with Penelope Thwaites (piano) on Chandos Records (CHAN 9730) Vol.12 of the monumental Grainger Edition. Barry Peter Ould
Duration 1¾ minutes
Duration 1¾ minutes
