SACDs - Svendsen

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Norwegian Romantic Chamber Music

Norwegian Romantic Chamber Music


Grieg:

String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27

Svendsen:

String Octet in A major, Op. 3


Kocian Quartet & M. Nostitz Quartet

An original pairing of composers who were compatriots and friends and who imposed the Romantic Norwegian school on Europe in the years 1872-1900. Grieg's career as a pianist was more modest then Svendsen the violinist's: the latter also outshone him as a conductor. A century later, the audience of the composer of Peer Gynt is universal, whereas Svendsen's oeuvre remains confined to Scandinavian concert halls. This is the first modern recording of his Octet, a youthful score enlivened by its borrowings from folklore.

“their playing is vigorous and expressive. The tone of each instrument has real character, so that in the second-movement Romanza, for example, where the melody is passed around, each phrase has its own colour...[the Svendsen] is an admirably vital, well-integrated account.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2011

“[The Kocian Quartet's] tonal finesse, refinement of phrasing, sensitivity to the constant play of bittersweet emotion that underpins the work even at its most apparently extrovert, are all exemplary. The recording is both lively and full bodied...What distinguishes the issue, however, is the coupling...it has a freshness and confidence and remarkably assured handling of counterpoint that compel admiration.” International Record Review, March 2011

Super Audio CD

Format:

Hybrid Multi-channel

Praga Digitals - DSD250274

(SACD)

$17.75

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days.

Norwegian Heartland

Norwegian Heartland

The Romantic Orchestral Heritage


Grieg:

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

Halvorsen:

Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2

Bergensiana

Bojarernes Indtogsmarsj (Entry of the Boyars)

Saeverud:

Peer Gynt Suite No. 1

Her Last Lullaby

Canto Rivoltoso

Svendsen:

Norsk Rapsodi No. 3, Op. 21

Norsk kunstnerkarneval, Op. 14

Tveitt:

from Hundred Folk-tunes from Hardanger


Sigurd Slåttebrekk (piano), Arve Moen Bergset (piano) & Isa Katharina Gericke (soprano)

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Michail Jurowski

Super Audio CD

Format:

Hybrid Multi-channel

Simax - PSC1260X

(SACD - 2 discs)

$25.75

Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days.

Pan-Flute Recital

Pan-Flute Recital


Bach, J S:

Flute Concerto in C (arranged from Flute Sonata No. 3 in A major, BWV1032)

arr. W. Mohr

Debussy:

Petite Suite: En bateau

The Little Shepherd (from Children's Corner)

Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque)

Genzmer:

Pan Flute Sonata

Mozart:

Flute Quartet No. 2 in G major, K285a: excerpts

arr. I Homolya

Rozsa:

North Hungarian Peasant Songs and Dances, Op. 5 (1929)

Svendsen:

Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26


Ulrich Herkenhoff (pan-pipes), Matthias Keller (piano)

Super Audio CD

Format:

unknown

Oehms - OC610

(SACD)

$17.75

(also available to download from $10.50)

Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.)

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