Grieg: Piano Music Vol. 2

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Einar Steen-Nokleberg has risen to the demands made on him. His playing is crisp and clear, brilliant when brilliance is needed, and he also has a feeling for the tender wistfulness and warmth,... — Classic CD More…

Catalogue No: 8550882
Label: Naxos
Length: 69 minutes

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Grieg: Improvisations on 2 Norwegian Folksongs, Op. 29

Work length7:23

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Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano)
Recorded: 3-5 August 1993
Recording Venue: Lindeman Hall, Norwegian State Academy of Music, Oslo

Allegretto con moto. Allegro. Molto vivace. Tempo I. Agitato e Pesante

Track length3:20

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Andante. Animato. Pesto leggiero. Tempo 1

Track length4:03

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Grieg: Ten Song Arrangements from Norges Melodier (Norwegian Melodies)

Work length1:21

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Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano)
Recorded: 3-5 August 1993
Recording Venue: Lindeman Hall, Norwegian State Academy of Music, Oslo

A Ballad to Saint Olaf, EG 108

Track length1:21

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Grieg: 25 Norwegian Folksongs & Dances, Op. 17

Work length30:14

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Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano)
Recorded: 3-5 August 1993
Recording Venue: Lindeman Hall, Norwegian State Academy of Music, Oslo

Springdans (Folk Dance)

Track length0:51

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Ungersvennen (The Young Man)

Track length1:02

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Springdans (Folk Dance)

Track length0:41

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Niels Tallefjorden

Track length1:13

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Jolstring (Dance from Joelster)

Track length1:27

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Brurelat (Wedding Song)

Track length1:42

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Halling (Folk Dance)

Track length0:51

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Grisen (The Pig)

Track length0:37

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Nar mitt oye (Religious Song)

Track length2:21

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Friervise (Wooer's Song)

Track length1:10

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Kjempevise (Heroic Ballad)

Track length1:15

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Solfager og ormekongen (Solfager and the Snake King)

Track length1:46

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Reiselat (Travel Song)

Track length0:58

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Jeg sjunger med sorrigfullt hjerte (I Sing with a Sorrowful Heart)

Track length1:21

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.Den siste Lordagskvelden (Last Saturday Evening)

Track length1:17

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Eg veit ei lita Jente (I Know a Little Maiden)

Track length1:26

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Kleggen og Fluga (The Horsefly and the Fly)

Track length1:05

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Stabbelaten (Peasant Dance)

Track length1:43

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Hoelje Dale

Track length1:12

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Halling

Track length0:49

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Saebygga (The Woman from Setesdhal)

Track length1:07

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Kulok (Cow Call)

Track length1:07

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Sag du nokke te kjerringa mi (Have You by Chance Seen My Wife)

Track length0:56

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Brurelat (Wedding Song)

Track length0:49

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Rabnabryllup (The Raven's Wedding)

Track length1:28

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Excerpt, Grieg: Lyric Pieces VII (6), Op. 62

Work length3:48

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Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano)
Recorded: 3-5 August 1993
Recording Venue: Lindeman Hall, Norwegian State Academy of Music, Oslo

The First Meeting, Op. 52, No. 2

Track length3:48

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Grieg: 19 Norwegian Folksongs, Op. 66

Work length27:11

$19.00

$24.70

Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano)
Recorded: 3-5 August 1993
Recording Venue: Lindeman Hall, Norwegian State Academy of Music, Oslo

Kulok (Cow Call)

Track length1:17

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Det er den storste darlighed (It is the Greatest Folly)

Track length1:04

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En konge hersket i Osterland (A King Ruled in the East)

Track length0:59

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Siri Dale visen (The Siri Dale Song)

Track length0:41

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Det var i min ungdom (It Happened in My Youth)

Track length2:32

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Lok og Badnlat (Call and Lullaby)

Track length1:16

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Badnlat (Lullaby)

Track length0:50

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Lok (Call)

Track length0:54

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Liten va guten (Small was the Lad)

Track length0:39

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Morgo ska du fa gifte deg (Tomorrow You Marry)

Track length1:09

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Der stander to piger (There Stood Two Girls)

Track length1:47

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Ranveig

Track length0:19

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En liten gra mann (A Little Grey Man)

Track length0:55

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I Ola-dalom, i Ola-kjonn (In Ola Valley, in Ola Lake)

Track length2:39

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Badnlat (Lullaby)

Track length1:48

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Ho vesle Astrid var (Our Little Astrid)

Track length0:57

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Badnlat (Lullaby)

Track length2:08

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Jeg gar i tusen tanker (I Wander Deep in Thought)

Track length4:16

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Gjendines Badnlat (Gjendine's Lullaby)

Track length1:01

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Einar Steen-Nokleberg has risen to the demands made on him. His playing is crisp and clear, brilliant when brilliance is needed, and he also has a feeling for the tender wistfulness and warmth, which surely Grieg put at the heart of his music.

2010

These are the first four volumes of a complete Grieg cycle which stretches to no fewer than 14 discs. Since they are all at super-budget price they make a very competitive alternative to other complete or near-complete surveys. Einar Steen-Nøkleberg came into prominence during the 1970s and won numerous Norwegian and other prizes. He was professor of the piano at the Hanover Musikhochschule for a number of years and is the author of a monograph on Grieg's piano music and its interpretation.
8 550881: The first disc juxtaposes early pieces, the Sonata, Op 7, the Op 6 Humoresques and the Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak, all written in the mid-1890s with his very last piano work, Stimmungen (or 'Moods'), Op 73. He plays these bold and original pieces with great flair and understanding. Whatever its limitations there's much greater range in Grieg's piano music than is commonly realised and Steen-Nøkleberg is attuned to the whole spectrum it covers, whether in the Bartókian 'Mountaineer's Song' from the Op 73 to the charm and innocence of the Allegretto con grazia, the third of the Humoresques, Op 6. 8 550882: The 19Norwegian Folksongs (1896) are remarkable pieces as Grieg himself knew. He wrote to the Dutch composer, Julius Röntgen, of having 'put some hair-raising chromatic chords on paper.
The excuse is that they originated not on the piano but in my mind.' Readers will recognise No 14 as the source of the theme for Delius's Onhearing the first cuckoo in spring. Steen-Nøkleberg plays them with great tonal finesse and consummate artistry.
8 550883: The most substantial work on this disc is the Ballade which Grieg wrote on his parents' death. This recording can hold its own with the best in this healthy area of the catalogue – even if there are moments when Steen-Nøkleberg seems too discursive. Yet what an imaginative colour he produces in the Adagio variation when the music suddenly melts pianissimo.8 550884: The Norwegian Peasant Dances are amazing pieces for their period, and though their audacity and dissonance were later overtaken by Bartók, they still retain their capacity to surprise. The playing conveys the extraordinary character and originality of these pieces as do few others. The smaller pieces contained on this disc – as well as on its companions – are full of rewards.

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