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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Grieg - Orchestral Music Volume 5Complete Incidental Music
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. “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.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2009 | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Grieg - Complete Music with Orchestra
Grieg: | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Lilya Zilberstein (piano) In Autumn, Op. 11 Symphonic Dances (4), Op. 64 Holberg Suite, Op. 40 Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 Melodies Op. 53 Two Nordic Melodies, Op. 63 Lyric Pieces (selection) Peer Gynt, incidental music, Op. 23 Barbara Bonney (soprano), Marianne Eklöf (mezzo-soprano), Kjell Magnus Sandve (tenor), Urban Malmberg (baritone), Carl Gustaf Holmgren (baritone) Gösta Ohlin's Vocal Ensemble, Pro Musica Chamber Choir Sigurd Jorsalfar Op. 22 Kjell Magnus Sandve (tenor) Norwegian Dances (4), Op. 35 Symphony in C minor Landkjenning Op. 31 Håkan Hagegård (vocal) Olav Trygvason Op. 50 Randi Stene (mezzo-soprano), Anne Gjevang (contralto), Håkan Hagegård (baritone) Old Norwegian Romance with Variations, Op. 51 Det første møde, Op. 21 No. 1 Barbara Bonney (vocal) Fra Monte Pincio, Op. 39 No. 1 Håkan Hagegård (vocal) En svane (No. 2 from Seks Digte af Henrik Ibsen, Op. 25) Barbara Bonney (vocal) Våren, Op. 33 No. 2 Barbara Bonney (vocal) Henrik Wergeland Op. 58 No. 3 Håkan Hagegård (vocal) The Mountain Thrall Op. 32 Håkan Hagegård (vocal) Before a Southern Convent Op. 20 Bergliot Op. 42 |
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| |  | Grieg - The Complete Orchestral Music
Grieg: | In Autumn, Op. 11 Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Noriko Ogawa (piano) Symphony in C minor Sigurd Jorsalfar Op. 22 Landkjenning Op. 31 Bergliot Op. 42 Sørgemarsj over Rikard Nordraak EG117 Grieg’s own versions for wind band and Johan Halvorsen’s arrangement for orchestra Den Bergtekne, Op. 32 Olav Trygvason Op. 50 Before a Southern Convent Op. 20 Six Songs for voice & orchestra Solveigs Sang; Solveigs Vuggevise; Fra Monte Pincio; En Svane; Våren; Henrik Wergeland Ved Rondane (from 12 Songs Op. 33) Peer Gynt, incidental music, Op. 23 play by Henrik Ibsen, in a concert version prepared by Svein Sturla Hungnes Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55 Old Norwegian Romance with Variations, Op. 51 Lyric Pieces Op. 54: No. 6 - Bell-Ringing Holberg Suite, Op. 40 Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 Melodies Op. 53 Two Nordic Melodies, Op. 63 To lyriske stykker Norwegian Dances (4), Op. 35 Symphonic Dances (4), Op. 64 Lyric Suite, Op. 54 |
To list the various distinctions awarded to the recordings that make up this sumptuous offering is almost impossible; suffice it to say that the entire series received the Grieg Award in 2007, the year of the hundredth anniversary of the death of the composer, as well as a very special commendation by the UK Grieg Society the same year. During 2003-2006, as the individual discs were released, reviewers all over the world were heaping praise over the series – astoundingly enough, as this is repertoire that at least in part belong to some of the most well-represented on disc. But this did not seem to matter to the critics, who described the performance of the Piano Concerto as one that ‘will make you fall in love with the music all over again’ American Record Guide and that of the Holberg Suite ‘so compelling that it simply makes you forget about any other’ Classics Today.com “This exemplary disc also offers us an opportunity to sample Grieg’s virtues and limitations under the best possible conditions, for performances and recording are both outstanding.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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