The Father of Norwegian Music
Donald Macleod introduces music from Grieg's final years including a funeral march he wrote for a young friend forty years earlier and his last great unaccompanied choral work.
Much of Grieg's time was spent away from home, touring and giving concerts across Europe despite his worsening health. Not long before his death he befriended the young pianist and composer Percy Grainger in whom Grieg found the perfect interpreter of his piano music. Donald Macleod introduces a selection from Grieg's penultimate collection of piano works - widely regarded as some of his most innovative writing, Grieg's last great unaccompanied choral work and the moving funeral march he wrote for his friend Rikard Nordraak forty years earlier and which was played at Grieg's own funeral.
Summer's Eve, Op.71 No.2 (Lyric Pieces Book 10)
Håkon Austbø (piano)
Evening in the Mountains, Op.68 No.4; Lullaby, Op.68 No.5 (Lyric Pieces Book 9)
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Elvind Aadland
Norwegian Peasant Dances Op.72 (selection)
Håkon Austbø (piano)
Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak
Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra
Conductor, Neeme Järvi
Four Psalms Op.74
The Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Conductor, Grete Pedersen
Producer Deborah Preston.
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Edvard Grieg
Lyric pieces - book 10 Op.71 - Sommeraften [Summer evening]
Performer: Haakon Austbo.- BRILLIANT : CLASSICS-94046.
- BRILLIANT.
- 13.
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Edvard Grieg
Lyric pieces - book 9 Op.68
Orchestra: South West German R S O. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.- Audite : 92671.
- Audite.
- 9.
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Edvard Grieg
Slatter Op.72 [norwegian Peasant Dances]
Performer: Haakon Austbo.- BRILLIANT : CLASSICS-94046.
- BRILLIANT.
- 27.
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Edvard Grieg
Funeral march for Richard Nordraak
Performer: Gothenburg S O.. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOP : 427-321 2.
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOP.
- 25.
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Edvard Grieg
4 Psalms Op.74
Choir: Norwegian Soloists Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.- BIS: SACD1661.
- BIS.
- 10.
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