Grieg: String Quartets (arranged for String Orchestra)

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Release Date: 30th Jan 2012
Catalogue No: 8572441
Label: Naxos
Length: 76 minutes

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Grieg: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27

Work length34:54

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Oslo Camerata
Stephan Barratt-Due

I. Un poco andante - Allegro molto ed agitato (Arr. A. Ardal for string orchestra)

Track length12:39

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II. Romanze. Andantino - Allegro agitato (Arr. A. Ardal for string orchestra)

Track length6:13

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III. Intermezzo. Allegro molto marcato - Più vivo e scherzando (Arr. A. Ardal for string orchestra)

Track length6:45

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IV. Finale. Lento - Presto al saltarello (Arr. A. Ardal for string orchestra)

Track length9:17

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Grieg: String Quartet in F Major, EG 117

Work length19:26

$5.00

$6.45

Oslo Camerata
Stephan Barratt-Due

I. Sostenuto - Allegro vivace e grazioso (Arr. A. Ardal for string orchestra)

Track length12:20

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$3.85

II. Allegro scherzando - Più vivo - Allegro scherzando (Arr. A. Ardal for string orchestra)

Track length7:06

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$2.60

Nordheim: Rendezvous

Work length21:49

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$6.45

Oslo Camerata
Stephan Barratt-Due

I. Praeambulum (quasi una fantasia)

Track length10:28

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$3.85

II. Intermezzo

Track length4:34

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$1.30

III. Nachruf

Track length6:47

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Grieg’s String Quartet in G minor has long established itself as one of the finest such works of the second half of the nineteenth century. The distinction of its thematic material, and its use in cyclical form, is reinforced by an ultimately victorious motto theme. The F major Quartet was written later, but remained unfinished, but it too is a fertile creation with a strong dance profile. Both works are heard in Alf Årdal’s imaginative arrangements for string orchestra. Arne Nordheim, in his lifetime Norway’s leading living composer, wrote Rendezvous as a quartet but expanded it in 1986. It is an intense, moving, and beautifully crafted work.

There are no other recordings of Årdal’s arrangements of Grieg in the catalogue. They are rich expansions, and should prove attractive to chamber orchestras which are, more and more, taking on quartet expansions into their repertoire. In his lifetime, Nordheim was Norway’s leading composer and his quartet, which he himself arranged for chamber orchestra, offers symmetry for the two Grieg quartets and also a modern day example of the country’s rich string music tradition.

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