Grieg: Piano Works

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Gavrić's accounts of...perennial favourites...are certainly appealing. More important is her commitment to music that remains unaccountably neglected...But perhaps the most revelatory music experience... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Sep 2013
Catalogue No: CHRCD067
Label: Champs Hill Records
Length: 65 minutes

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March 2014

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Grieg: Ballade in G minor, Op. 24

Work length18:47

Ivana Gavrić

Grieg: Lyric Pieces (selection)

Work length16:52

Ivana Gavrić

I. Butterfly, Op. 43, No. 1

Track length1:48

II. Waltz, Op. 38, No. 7

Track length1:03

III. Little Bird, Op. 43, No. 4

Track length2:02

IV. Notturno, Op. 54, No. 4

Track length3:57

V. Peasant's Song, Op. 65, No. 2

Track length1:33

VI. Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op. 65, No. 6

Track length6:29

Grieg: Slatter, Op. 72 (Peasant Dances)

Work length10:23

Ivana Gavrić

I. The Goblin's Bridal Procession, No. 14

Track length2:25

II. Halling from the Hills, No. 4

Track length3:57

IV. The Girls of Kivledal Folk Dance, No. 17

Track length1:43

V. John Vaestafae's Dance, No. 2

Track length2:18

Grieg: Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7

Work length17:33

Ivana Gavrić

I. Allegro moderato

Track length4:34

II. Andante molto

Track length3:52

III. Alla Menuetto ma poco piu lento

Track length2:54

IV. Finale, molto allegro

Track length6:13

Frances-Hoad: Contemplation, after Grieg sonata, Op. 7

Work length2:18

Ivana Gavrić

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Award-winning pianist Ivana Gavrić's third album for Champs Hill Records is a very personal selection of repertoire including Grieg's Piano Sonata, the Ballade and a selection of his Lyric pieces. There is also a unique epilogue - a new piece written for Ivana (the first of a set of four) by RPS Award-winning composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

Grieg's Ballade is one of his darkest and most impressive extended pieces for piano. Although he never performed the work himself in concert, it was widely acclaimed, the German critic Walter Niemann describing the Ballade as “the most perfect embodiment of Norway and the Norwegian people, of its agonized longing for light and sun, and at the same time the most perfect embodiment in music of Grieg the man.”

Named Gramophone’s ‘One to Watch’ and BBC Music Magazine’s ‘Rising Star’, Ivana has performed on the major concert platforms in the UK, including The Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall, as well as across Europe, in Canada, Japan and Russia.

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January 2014

Gavrić's accounts of...perennial favourites...are certainly appealing. More important is her commitment to music that remains unaccountably neglected...But perhaps the most revelatory music experience is contained in four of the extraordinary Slatter...Gavrić delivers an electrifying performance

March 2014

she achieves an unforced eloquence that makes you more than question Alfred Brendel's unforgiveable reference to 'music for chamber-maids'...In short, Gavric possesses what I can only describes as a beautful musical personality, complemented by Champs Hill's excellent sound and presentation.

16th January 2014

playing that is instinctively attuned to the moods and shades of the music.
She brings vitality and haunting atmosphere to the subtle inflections of the cameo images in six of the “Lyric Pieces”...the Sonata comes across with all its youthful exuberance, passion, winning lyricism and tender wistfulness.

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