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Det Norske Solistkor (The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir), Grete Pedersen “A superb choir with a warm, clear sound does full justice to these luscious choral works and arrangements of pieces by Grieg” Classic FM Magazine | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | The Golden Age of the Cornet
Ole Edvard Antonsen (cornet) The Royal Norwegian Navy Band (Kongelige Norske Marines Musikkorps), Ingar Bergby “[Ole Edvard Antonsen's] playing [is] clean, tasty, elegant, and full of stylistic contrasts.” American Record Guide | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Warwick Braithwaite, Walter Susskid & Issay Dobrowen Philharmonia recorded 1948 for HMV | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Grieg: Songs
Grieg: | Fem Digte af John Paulsen, Op. 26 No. 1 'Et håb' Ich liebe Dich, Op. 5 No. 3 Hjertets Melodier af H. C.Andersen, Op. 5 No. 1 'To brune Øjne' Fire digte af 'Fiskerjenten'. Op. 21 The Princess, EG133 Fra Monte Pincio, Op. 39 No. 1 Peer Gynt: Solveig's Song Peer Gynt: Solveig's Song Seks Sange, Op. 48 Margrethes vuggesang (Margaret’s Cradle Song) Jeg reiste en deiling Sommerkvaeld, Op. 26 No. 2 Med en Primula veris, Op. 26 No. 4 Våren, Op. 33 No. 2 I Liden hojt deroppe, Op. 39 No. 3 Til en II, Op. 59 No. 4 Mens jeg venter (On the Water), Op. 60 No. 3 En svane (No. 2 from Seks Digte af Henrik Ibsen, Op. 25) Forårsregn (No. 6 from Seks Digte af Holger Drachmann, Op. 49) Ved Rondane (from 12 Songs Op. 33) En fuglevise, Op. 25 No. 6 |
Bodil Arnesen (soprano), Erling Ragnar Eriksen (piano) | | | (also available to download from $5.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Kirsten Flagstad: The Supreme Wagnerian Soprano
Alnaes: | Lykken mellem to mennesker | Bach, C P E: | Die Güte Gottes Busslied (An dir Allein) Passionslied Preis sei dem Gotte | Bach, J S: | St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Erbarme dich Vergiss mein nicht, BWV505 O finstre Nacht, wann wirst du doch vergehen, BWV492 Liebster Herr Jesu! wo bleibest du so lange?, BWV484 Komm süsser Tod, BWV478 Dir, dir Jehovah, will ich singen, BWV452 | Backer-Grøndahl: | Mot kveld, Op. 42 No. 7 | Beethoven: | Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur ('Die Himmel rühmen des Ewigen Ehre'), Op. 48 No. 4 | Böhm, G: | Geh’ ein, mein Leib, in deine Kammer | Bridge: | Love went a-riding | Bull, O: | Saeterjentens Søndag (The Herdgirl's Sunday) | Carissimi: | Soccorretemi ch'io moro | Cruger: | Auf, auf mein Herz mit Freude | Dørumsgaard: | Gudrid stod ved stoveglas, Op. 11 No. 2 Natt, Op. 4 No. 1 Regn (from Op. 6) Hjuring-lokk (from Dusk in the Enchanted Wood, Op. 8) Spinnvettir (from Op.10) Baan sull (from Op. 11) Alle mann hadde fota, Op. 21 No. 2 | Franck, J W: | Wie seh’ ich dich, mein Jesu, bluten Sei nur still Auf, auf! zu Gottes Lob! | Gluck: | Che faro' senza Euridice? (from Orfeo ed Euridice) | Grieg: | Seks Sange, Op. 48 No. 6 'Ein Traum' Tak for dit råd (from 4 Songs Op. 21) Våren, Op. 33 No. 2 Fra Monte Pincio, Op. 39 No. 1 Guten (from 12 Songs Op. 33) Eros (from 5 Songs Op. 70) Ved Rondane (from 12 Songs Op. 33) Seks Sange, Op. 48 No. 6 'Ein Traum' En svane (No. 2 from Seks Digte af Henrik Ibsen, Op. 25) Den særde (from 12 Songs Op. 33) Med en vandlije, Op. 25 No. 4 The Princess, EG133 Tolv Melodier til Digte af Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Op. 33 No. 5 'Langs ei Å' Mens jeg venter (On the Water), Op. 60 No. 3 Med en Primula veris, Op. 26 No. 4 Og jeg vil ha mig hjertenskjaer (And I would like a sweetheart true), Op. 60 No. 5 Modersord (No. 4 from Four Songs, Op. 15) Millom Rosor, Op. 39, No. 4 | Handel: | Ombra mai fu (from Serse) Messiah: I know that my Redeemer liveth | Hurum: | Blonde nætter, Op. 13 No. 1 | Lie, S: | Sne | Löhner: | O Ewigkeit | Purcell: | Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth (from Dido & Aeneas) | Schubert: | Die Allmacht, D852 Frühlingsglaube, D686 Wandrers Nachtlied II 'Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh', D768 | Sinding: | Majnat, Op. 22 No. 3 | Strauss, R: | Seitdem dein Aug' in meines schaute, Op. 17 No. 1 Cäcilie, Op. 27 No. 2 | Wagner: | Wesendonck-Lieder (5) Allmächt’ge Jungfrau! (from Tannhäuser) Siegmund! Sieh' auf mich! (from Die Walküre) Heil dir, Sonne! (from Siegfried) Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde (from Götterdämmerung) Set Svanholm (Siegfried) Helle Wehr, heilige Waffe (from Götterdämmerung) Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort 'Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene' (from Götterdämmerung) Tristan und Isolde (excerpts) Ludwig Suthaus (Tristan), Blanche Thebom (Brangane) |
This 5-CD set, devoted to the famous Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad, is a further release in the EMI Classics ICON series. Kirsten Flagstad (1895–1962) enjoyed a successful career singing opera and operetta in Scandanavia, and was considering retirement when she was catapulted to international fame in 1935 after a sensational appearance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York singing Sieglinde, Isolde and Brünnhilde. From 1935 until her retirement from the stage in 1953 she was the leading Wagnerian soprano of her day. Her powerful, radiant voice and seemingly inexhaustible vocal stamina were ideally suited to the most taxing roles in Wagner’s operas and she was universally acclaimed, especially as Isolde and Brünnhilde. She scored a particular success at Covent Garden and sang there under the three most famous Wagner conductors of the time: Reiner, Beecham and Furtwängler. The first CD in the set opens with a group of Baroque arias by Handel, Bach, Purcell and Gluck that show off to advantage Flagstad’s superb voice and impeccable musicality. The remainder of this CD consists of Arne Dørumsgaard’s attractive arrangements of classical arias and songs from the collection Canzone scordate. In her concert repertoire, Flagstad specialised in Norwegian songs and made many recordings of the vocal music of Grieg as well as other Scandanavian composers like Alf Hurum, Ole Bull and Christian Sinding, all of whom are represented on CD 2. The third CD beings with a group of songs by Schubert, Beethoven, Bridge and Dørumsgaard, after which Flagstad gives a superb account of the five Wesendonck Lieder that Wagner wrote while composing Tristan und Isolde. This CD concludes with Elisabeth’s prayer ‘Allmächt’ge Jungfrau’ from Tannhäuser and ‘Siegmund! Sieh’ auf mich’ in which Brünnhilde tells Siegmund of his forthcoming death in the second act of Die Walküre. Siegmund is sung by the tenor Set Svanholm, who was one of Flagstad’s regular partners in the theatre and on disc. The remaining two discs include extensive excerpts from Siegfried, Götterdämmerung and Tristan und Isolde, with Set Svanholm as Siegfried and Ludwig Suthaus as Tristan. The complete recording of Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler, is considered to be one of the finest opera recordings ever made. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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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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