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Grieg’s incidental music for Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt (1874-5) won immediate success and ranks among his most enduringly popular compositions, its huge range of orchestral tone-colours and creative use of space captured on this recording by placing actors, chorus, and folk musicians both onstage and behind the scenes.
Foran Sydens Kloster, composed in 1871 as an interlude for Bjørnson’s heroic play Arnljot Gelline, and Bergliot, a monodrama written in the same year and orchestrated in 1875, reveal Grieg as a master composer of dramatic and lyrical stage music.
This recording includes authentic folk musician recordings as well as the original narration.
Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23
Act I: Prelude: I Bryllupsgarden (At the Wedding)
Act I Scene 1: Bukkerittet (The Buckride) (Ase, Peer)
Act I Scene 2: Halling (Peer)
Act I Scene 3: Springar: Bryllupet pa Hegstad (The Wedding at Hegstad) (Solveig, Peer)
Act II: Prelude: Bruderovet (The Abduction of the Bride) - Ingrids klage (Ingrid's Lament)
Act II Scene 3: Peer Gynt pa flukt (Peer Gynt on the Run) (Peer)
Act II Scene 3: Peer Gynt og Saeterjentene (Peer Gynt and the Herd-Girls) (3 Herd-Girls, Peer)
Act II Scene 5: Peer Gynt og Den Gronnkledte (Peer Gynt and the Woman in Green)
Act II Scene 5: Pa ridestellet skal storfolk kjendes (Great Folk may be Known by the Mounts…)
Act II Scene 6: I Dovregubbens hall (In the Hall of the Mountain King) (Chorus, Troll Maiden, Troll Witches, Mountain King)
Act II Scene 6: Dans av Dovregubbens datter (Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter)
Act II Scene 6: Peer Gynt jages av troll (Peer Gynt Hunted by the Trolls) (Peer, Chorus, Senior Troll)
Act II Scene 7: Peer Gynt og Boygen (Peer Gynt and the Boyg) (Peer, Boyg)
Act III: Prelude: Forspill til Ases dod (Prelude to the Death of Ase)
Act III Scene 4: Ases dod (The Death of Ase) (Ase, Peer)
Act IV: Prelude: Morgenstemning (Morning Mood)
Act IV Scene 5: Tyven og heleren (The Thief and the Receiver) (Thief, Recever)
Act IV Scene 6: Arabisk dans (Arabian Dance) (Chorus, Anitra)
Act IV Scene 6: Anitras dans (Anitra's Dance)
Act IV Scene 6: Profetens juvel (The Prophet's Jewel) (Peer)
Act IV Scene 7: Peer Gynts Serenade (Peer Gynt's Serenade) (Peer)
Act IV Scene 9: Peer Gynt og Anitra (Peer Gynt and Anitra) (Anitra, Peer)
Act IV Scene 10: Solveigs sang (Solveig's Song) (Solveig)
Act IV Scene 11: Peer Gynt ved Memnonstotten (Peer Gynt at the Statue of Memnon)
Act V Scene 5: Solveig synger i hytten (Solveig Sings in the Hut) (Solveig)
Act V Scene 5: Peer Gynt ved hytten (Peer Gynt by the Hut) (Peer)
Act V Scene 6: Nattscene (Night Scene) (Peer, Chorus, Ase)
Act V Scene 10: Deilige sol og deilige jord (Lovely Sun and Lovely Earth) (Peer)
Act V Scene 10: Pinsesalme: Velsignede morgen (Whitsun Hymn: Oh Blessed Morning) (Chorus)
Act V Scene 10: Peer Gynt og Solveig (Peer Gynt and Solveig) (Peer, Solveig)
Act V Scene 10: Solveigs vuggevise (Solveig's Cradle Song) (Buttonmoulder, Solveig, Chorus)
Edvard Grieg: Foran sydens kloster (At the Cloister Gate), Op. 20
Foran sydens kloster (Before a Southern Convent), Op. 20
Edvard Grieg: Bergliot, Op. 42
Bergliot, Op. 42
March 2009
“Engeset and his Swedish players and Norwegian actors and singers provide the most sensible mix of spoken word and music yet arrived at for home listening and have more fun with this music in the studio than anyone since Masur or Beecham.”
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Act I: Prelude: I Bryllupsgarden (At the Wedding)
