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Grieg: | Lyric Pieces Op. 65: No. 6 - Wedding Day at Troldhaugen Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 Nordic Melodies Op. 63: Cow-Call, Dance Holberg Suite, Op. 40: excerpts 1st movement Peer Gynt: Morning Peer Gynt: Anitra's Dance In the Hall of the Mountain King (from Peer Gynt) | Sibelius: | Karelia Suite Op. 11: Intermezzo Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22: The Swan of Tuonela (No. 2) Finlandia, Op. 26 Pelléas and Mélisande Suite, Op. 46 (excerpts) King Kristian II, incidental music, Op. 27: Musette King Kristian II, incidental music, Op. 27: Elegie Valse Triste, Op. 44 No. 1 |
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| |  | Grieg: Holberg Suite
“an attractive Grieg program and the recording is both rich and brilliant” Penguin Guide | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Scandinavian Serenade
Returning to the catalogue, at budget price for the first time, is the delicious recording by Marriner and the Academy of Scandinavian works. The Holberg Suite was recorded in 1970, whereas the rest of the program was taped seven years later. All of the recordings were made in the stunning Kingsway Hall acoustic. “This programme of Scandinavian pieces, slight though the items may be, is all popular in the most attractive way; and shows the particular qualities of both Sir Neville and his Academy at their best - the playing always alert, yet with feeling in the more deeply expressed pieces like Grieg's Elegiac Melodies ... The sound of the CD is absolutely first rate and the disc is highly recommended ... Playing and recording, in fact, could hardly be better” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Grieg: Holberg Suite, Lyric Suite & Norwegian Dances
“this is still as fresh and vivid a collection of Grieg's orchestral pieces as you're likely to find, with the Gothenburg orchestra in fine form.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2013 ***** | 
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| |  | Scandinavian Classics Volume 4Recordings made between 1940 - 1953
Børresen: | The Royal Guest: Overture Royal (Danish) Orchestra, Johan Hye-Knudsen | Dupuy: | Ungdom og galskab: God natt kabaler! Royal (Danish) Orchestra, Johan Hye-Knudsen | Enna: | The Little Match Girl, overture Royal (Danish) Orchestra, Johan Hye-Knudsen | Grieg: | Lyric Suite, Op. 54 Danish State Broadcasting Orchestra, Erich Tuxen Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 String of the Royal (Danish) Orchestra, Johan Hye-Knudsen | Lange-Müller: | Extracts from Der var engang (Once upon a time), Op. 25 Royal (Danish) Orchestra, Johan Hye-Knudsen | Lumbye: | Drømmebilleder Danish State Broadcasting Orchestra, Launy Grøndahl | Nielsen: | Saga-drøm, Op. 39 (FS46) Royal (Danish) Orchestra, Egisto Tango Violin Concerto, Op. 33 (FS61) Emil Telmanyi (violin) Danish State Broadcasting Orchestra, Fritz Busch | Riisager: | Qarrtsiluni, Op. 36 Royal (Danish) Orchestra, Johan Hye-Knudsen | Roman: | Sinfonia in D Danish State Broadcasting Orchestra, Mogens Wöldike Sinfonia No. 20 in E minor Danish State Broadcasting Orchestra, Mogens Wöldike | Saeverud: | Galdreslåtten, Op. 20 Danish State Broadcasting Orchestra, Nicolai Malko | Svendsen: | Norsk kunstnerkarneval, Op. 14 Danish State Broadcasting Orchestra, Erich Tuxen |
This is the fourth and last issue in the enterprising Danish series Scandinavian Classics from the leading Danish label, Danacord. An interesting feature on this volume is that it is the only one to feature any Swedish music and the reason is that The Danish State Broadcasting Orchestra only ever recorded the two sinfonias by Roman. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Grieg: Famous Orchestral Works
“strong, sinewy performances of Holberg and Peer Gynt suites, and the Symphonic Dances. Garrick Ohlsson is imperious in a tensile Piano Concerto.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2012 **** | | | (also available to download from $20.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Grieg: Music for String Orchestra
On this disc, Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra play string works by Edvard Grieg. The ACO perform perennial favourites such as the Holberg Suite and the two Elegiac Melodies, Grieg’s own orchestrations of two of his best-loved songs: Last Spring and The Wounded Heart. The programme also includes Richard Tognetti’s adaptation of String Quartet No.1 and the ravishingly lyrical piano composition Erotikk from the composer’s celebrated collection of Lyric Pieces. Previous recordings with Tognetti and the ACO on BIS including Mozart’s violin concerti (BISSACD1754 and BISSACD1755), have been met with critical acclaim: Gramophone’s described the team as ‘an outstanding band’ with ‘a keen individual and collective feel for style and character’, and The Observer praised their ‘gloriously exciting, tangy edged, alert and playful sound.’ “Tognetti's masterstroke is to have fully assimilated all the characteristics of Grieg's scoring...Transferring this procedure to the Quartet serves to enhance dramatic impact on its music narrative...The Australian Chamber Orchestra delivers playing of incredible passion and precision. Tognetti's inspired direction brings every movement to life...A triumph in every respect.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2012 ***** “The Australian Chamber Orchestra is renowned for its crisp, clean playing, superb ensemble and intonation, and vivacious style...[The Elegiac Melodies and Holberg Suite] have dozens of rivals but, while one might find equally fine renditions, I doubt there are many better ones. Excellent sound, as usual from this label.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2012 “[the String Quartet is] a striking piece, driven and agitated on the one hand, sweetly lyrical on the other. The performers give it vitality and beauty and a programmatic narrative which compelling. The original solo lines are sometimes left as they were, rather poignantly so in the dramatic first movement...the Australians offer a spirited and sensitive account [of the Two Elegiac Melodies].” International Record Review, June 2012 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Grieg: Orchestral Music
Grieg: | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Lilya Zilberstein (piano) Peer Gynt, incidental music, Op. 23 Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55 Norwegian Dances (4), Op. 35 Orchestrated by Hans Sitt Holberg Suite, Op. 40 Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 Two Melodies, Op. 53 Two Nordic Melodies, Op. 63 Lyric Pieces Op. 68: No. 4 - Evening in the mountains Lyric Pieces Op. 68: No. 5 - At the cradle Lyric Suite, Op. 54 (excerpts) |
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| |  | Grieg - Orchestral Music Volume 6Music for String Orchestra
Grieg’s beautiful works for string orchestra often owe their origin to poetic inspiration or to mountain vistas. Some were based on piano originals, including the Holberg Suite, a masterpiece of invention. All of these pieces show Grieg’s assimilation of Norwegian folk culture and his lyrical mastery, through which he sought to ‘give expression to the hidden harmonies in our folk melodies’. Volume 4 in this series (8570236) was described as containing ‘performances as fine as any in the catalogue. These are gorgeous, perfectly paced and thrillingly recorded’. (ClassicsToday.com) “there's an edge to their tone that belies unfavourable comparisons with salon music. They also capture the vocal quality underpinning the Two Elegiac Melodies, and the folk music background to movements such as 'Norwegian' from Two Melodies for String Orchestra.” Classic FM Magazine, February 2012 **** | | | (also available to download from $5.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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