Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works Volume 2

A happy star reigned over Cologne two autumns ago when violinist-turned maestro Eivind Aadland recorded his cycle of Grieg symphonic works with the city's WDR orchestra...the bite and bounce... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 More…

Release Date: 5th Sep 2011
Catalogue No: AUDITE92579
Label: Audite
Series: Grieg Complete Symphonic Works
Length: 52 minutes

Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34

Work length9:49

$2.00

$2.60

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Eivind Aadland

No. 1, Hjertesar (the Wounded Heart)

Track length4:02

$1.00

$1.30

No. 2, Varen (Last Spring)

Track length5:47

$1.00

$1.30

Grieg: Holberg Suite, Op. 40

Work length21:02

$5.00

$6.50

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Eivind Aadland

I. Prelude (Version for Strings)

Track length2:47

$1.00

$1.30

II. Sarabande (Version for Strings)

Track length4:25

$1.00

$1.30

III. Gavotte (Version for Strings)

Track length3:29

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Air (Version for Strings)

Track length6:18

$1.00

$1.30

V. Rigaudon (Version for Strings)

Track length4:03

$1.00

$1.30

Grieg: Melodies Op. 53

Work length9:10

$2.00

$2.60

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Eivind Aadland

No. 1, Norsk (Norwegian) [Version for orchestra]

Track length4:24

$1.00

$1.30

No. 2, Det forste mode (the First Meeting) [Version for orchestra]

Track length4:46

$1.00

$1.30

Grieg: Two Nordic Melodies, Op. 63

Work length12:18

$4.00

$5.20

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Eivind Aadland

No. 1, I folketonestil (In folk style) [Version for orchestra]

Track length7:32

$2.00

$2.60

No. 2, Kulok (Cow-Call) [Version for orchestra]

Track length2:27

$1.00

$1.30

No. 2, Stabbelaten (Peasant Dance) [Version for orchestra]

Track length2:19

$1.00

$1.30

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This second volume, in a five-part series of the complete symphonic works with Eivind Aadland and the WDR Sinfonieorchester contains the works for string orchestra: a genre which Grieg mastered like no other, chiefly arrangements of songs and piano pieces. Where the song arrangements of the Elegiac Melodies Op. 34 and the Two Melodies Op. 53 were a form of ‘export edition’ for non-Scandinavian countries (where they were extremely popular, even during Grieg’s lifetime), the famous suite From Holberg’s Time Op. 40 is a homage to Ludvig Holberg, the caustic ‘Molière of the North’, whose 200th birthday was celebrated in Bergen in 1884. For this occasion, Grieg composed a suite ‘in the old style’ on dance forms of the late baroque (Holberg’s own time) without, however, denying his own, romantic style. The late Nordic Melodies Op. 63 were written by the 51-year-old Grieg who was touring internationally as a conductor and who, in the absence of major works, broadened his repertoire with smaller pieces.

“The flavour of this music is in my blood”, says the conductor Eivind Aadland, who grew up in Grieg’s hometown of Bergen and who today is an international artist. Aadland was chief conductor and artistic director of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra from 2003 until 2010 and has also worked with many other Scandinavian, European and international orchestras. He initially studied the violin with Yehudi Menuhin. From 1981 until 1989 he was concert master of the Bergen Philharmonic and from 1987 until 1997 music director of the European Union Chamber Orchestra. He subsequently devoted himself fully to his conducting career and studied with Jorma Panula.

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November 2011

A happy star reigned over Cologne two autumns ago when violinist-turned maestro Eivind Aadland recorded his cycle of Grieg symphonic works with the city's WDR orchestra...the bite and bounce of the German orchestra's playing is remarkable for its apparent ethnicity...Almost singlehandedly these days [Aadland] continues to make the case for Grieg as serious orchestral writer.

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