Grieg: 9 Lyric Pieces |
This page lists all recordings of 9 Lyric Pieces, by Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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Richard Farrell (piano) The Halle Orchestra, George Weldon Fifty years ago on a country road near Arundel, Sussex, a car unaccountably left the road and hit a tree, killing all three of the vehicle's occupants. One of the passengers in the car was Richard Farrell. Richard was just starting an amazing career as a concert pianist. In 1956 he made what was to be his last tour of New Zealand. By this time he was tackling some of the mountain-peaks of the pianistic repertoire in his programmes - things like the Brahms F Minor Sonata and the "Handel" Variations, Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit", Chopin's Op.10 Etudes, and some Liszt transcriptions and paraphrases. As well, with the New Zealand National Orchestra, whose work with conductor James Robertson he praised, he played the "Emperor", and the Ravel Left-Hand Concerto. That same year Farrell had commenced what seemed a highly promising recording career in England with Pye Records, beginning with a coupling of the Grieg and Liszt E-flat concertos in which he was partnered by the Halle Orchestra under George Weldon. These two concertos are on this recording. “I enjoyed his playing very much, for he has what is today the rare virtue of being able to play slowly. Though he often tosses off quick passages at conventional speeds (and he has plenty of technique), he
always plays slow movements and slow sections of movements considerably slower than almost every other pianist listed above. And yet he is neither sentimental nor dull ; his playing, on the contrary, is
movingly contemplative and poetic.” Gramophone Magazine, July 1957 (on the Grieg Piano Concerto) “This music is wonderfully inventive, and Farrell brings out all the poetry and melancholy and humourin
a performance that could hardly be bettered.” Gramophone Magazine, April 1959 (on Grieg’s Ballade) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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