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    Grieg & Ragnarsson: Nordlicht
    Solo Musica

    Grieg & Ragnarsson: Nordlicht

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg, Hjalmar Hegi Ragnarsson
    Artist
    Margarita Hohenrieder, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Antti Siirala
    Released
    Jul 26, 2024
    The poet Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Grieg met in Rome in 1866. At this time, Ibsen was working on the dramatic poem "Peer Gynt" based on Norwegian fairy tales by Peter Christen Asbjornsen. Ibsen reworked it into a stage play and commissioned Grieg to write the music for it. The premiere took place on 24 February 1876. A few years later, Grieg used this music to create two purely orchestral suites, which are among the best-known works of Romantic music - and finally a very colourful and atmospheric arrangement for four-hand piano. Grieg was inspired to write his Piano Concerto in A minor op.16 as a student when he heard Clara Schumann play her husband Robert's piano concerto in Leipzig in 1858. He became a great admirer of Schumann. Grieg chose the same key as Schumann, A minor, for his own piano concerto, which was written 10 years later in Denmark. The premiere in Copenhagen in 1869 was enthusiastically celebrated. When E. Grieg met Franz Liszt in Rome in 1870, the latter played his piano concerto - a great honour and joy for Grieg - and the piano concerto and the two Peer Gynt suites are among the most beautiful and popular piano works of Romantic music. Margarita Hohenrieder have known the Icelandic composer Hjalmar Helgi Ragnarsson and his music for several years. She became acquainted with his piano pieces through his sister, her long-time friend, the pianist Anna Ragnarsdottir-Hoffmann. She was also the wife of her former teacher and well-known piano virtuoso Ludwig Hoffmann. Hohenrieder herself was looking for several pieces specifically for the left hand at the time: she was planning joint performances entitled "2 linke Hande " (2 left hands) together with the painter Bernd Zimmer. While Bernd Zimmer painted a picture live in front of an audience using only his left hand, Margarita Hohenrieder played pieces for the left hand. It is a creative and unique project. Hjalmar Helgi Ragnarsson wrote the left-hand piece "Stilla" for her, which for the artist on a trip to Iceland was a fascinating and mysterious reflection of the mostly light green moss-covered volcanic landscape with it's glaciers and the endless expanse and silence. When she played Stilla, she even felt as she can briefly see the northern lights again in some places. Mrs. Hohenrieder first heard the Finnish-born pianist Antti Siirala as a juror at the 1997 International Beethoven Competition in Vienna. He was 17 years old at the time and won first prize. He is now her colleague at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich.
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  • Grieg & Ragnarsson: Nordlicht

    Grieg & Ragnarsson: Nordlicht

    Solo Musica Jul 2024
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
  • Grieg, E.: Songs (Complete), Vol. 6

    Grieg, E.: Songs (Complete), Vol. 6

    BIS Sep 2007
    1 disc
    CD
    $21.99
  • Grieg, E.: Songs (Complete), Vol. 7

    Grieg, E.: Songs (Complete), Vol. 7

    BIS Feb 2008
    1 disc
    CD
    $21.99
  • Grieg, E.: Songs (Complete), Vol. 4

    Grieg, E.: Songs (Complete), Vol. 4

    BIS Aug 2002
    1 disc
    CD
    $21.99
  • Grieg, E.: Songs (Complete), Vol. 5

    Grieg, E.: Songs (Complete), Vol. 5

    BIS Jan 2006
    1 disc
    CD
    $21.99
  • Grieg: Olav Trygvason / Orchestral Songs

    Grieg: Olav Trygvason / Orchestral Songs

    BIS Nov 2006
    1 disc
    SACD
    $21.99
    Signum Classics

    Vaughan Williams & Grieg: Violin Sonatas / Ciem, Golan

    CD · 1 disc

    $9.99 $19.99 Save 50%
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg, Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Artist
    Charlie Siem, Itamar Golan
    Released
    Feb 10, 2023

    Charlie Siem returns with a new recording of Violin Sonatas, accompanied by his regular recital partner Itamar Golan – featuring Vaughan Williams' Violin Sonata in A Minor and Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, Op. 13. Charlie Siem is one of today’s foremost young violinists, with such a wide-ranging diversity of cross-cultural appeal as to have played a large part in defining what it means to be a true artist of the 21st century. Siem has appeared with many of the world’s finest orchestras and chamber ensembles, including the Bergen Philharmonic, Camerata Salzburg, Czech National Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, London Symphony, Moscow Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked with top conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Edward Gardner, Zubin Mehta, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sir Roger Norrington, Libor Pešek and Yuri Simonov. International festival appearances to date include Spoleto, St. Moritz, Gstaad, Bergen, Tine@Munch, Festival Internacional de Santa Lucía, and the Windsor Festival.

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  • Vaughan Williams & Grieg: Violin Sonatas / Ciem, Golan
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    Vaughan Williams & Grieg: Violin Sonatas / Ciem, Golan

    Signum Classics Feb 2023
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99 $9.99Save 50%
  • Grieg: Choir Music / Pedersen, Norwegian Soloists Choir
    BIS

    Grieg: Choir Music / Pedersen, Norwegian Soloists Choir

    SACD · 1 disc

    $21.99
    Composer
    GRIEG, EDVARD
    Artist
    Grete, Trine Wilsberg, Pedersen-Helgerod, Lund
    Released
    Aug 01, 2007
    This is an, err… enchanting disc of Grieg’s choral music – both original and arranged for choir. The opening, resonant, full bodied choral arrangement of the popular “At Rondane”, op.33, No.2 (originally for voice and piano) is plain gorgeous in its moody way. Two religious songs were prepared for mixed choir by Grieg himself of which “Withered, Fallen – At the Bier of a Young Wife” sounds a bit predictable, but touching in its cathedral-like piety. In this song, as in “Ave, Maris Stella” or indeed most of the other works on this glorious sounding (multi-channel/stereo) hybrid SACD, the non-Norwegian ear will always pick up a certain preciousness, that silver-voiced, Christmas-choir touch with scents and touches of mulled wine, snow boots, and blond locks under a woolen hat.

    “Margaret’s Cradle Song” op.15, No.1, a short gem some 90 seconds long, was written in appreciation of the birth of his daughter Alexandra in 1868. It is set to the Ibsen poem of the same name and hauntingly beautiful. Alexandra, however, never got to appreciate her song; she died shortly after it was written. (Which is tragic and yet, given that it was set to something by Ibsen, also so terribly appropriate.)

    Grete Pedersen, who conducts the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir also sets the first of the Lyric Pieces op.71 “Det var engang” for mixed choir. It might be the only miscalculation in that the result sounds nice and pleasant but also — in its dum-de-dum new-agey way — cheap.

    Norway was already an independent nation when Grieg composed the 1907 Four Psalms op.74, his last work. It’s a somber end to his musical output – with “Jesus Christ is Risen” being an especially austere, if moving, setting of this Hans Adolf Brorson text. The four psalm settings are based on a collection of Norwegian “newer and older mountain tunes” that Grieg wanted to help preserve with his musical adoption. He has achieved that all over again by having them included in this very fine reminder that Grieg is so much more than the Grieg of a certain mountain king’s hall, or of lyric pieces, or a piano concerto.

    -- Jens F. Laurson, WETA 90.9
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  • Grieg: Choir Music / Pedersen, Norwegian Soloists Choir

    Grieg: Choir Music / Pedersen, Norwegian Soloists Choir

    BIS Aug 2007
    1 disc
    SACD
    $21.99
    Naxos

    Grieg: Olav Trygvason, Landkjenning, Sigurd Jorsalfar & Resi

    CD · 1 disc

    $13.99 $19.99 Save 30%
    Composer
    GRIEG
    Artist
    Malmo Chamber Cho, Marianne E. Andersen, Nina Gravrok, Magne Fremmerlid, Helge Ronning, Yngve Soberg
    Released
    Nov 19, 2013
    Edvard Grieg and his librettist Bjurnstjerne Bjurnson were both fascinated by a great period in Norway's past: The Viking Age, whose sagas, and fierce conflicts between Christianity and the old Norse religion, inspired all three of Grieg's works recorded here. Landkjenning depicts the moment when Olav Trygvason (960s-1000) and his men sight the Norwegian coast for the first time on their voyage from England to Norway. As King from 995 to 1000, Olav worked single-mindedly to Christianize Norway. Conceived as a true Norwegian national opera, but left unfinished, the three scenes from Olav Trygvason explore pagan rituals and tributes to the Norse gods in anticipation of King Olav's entrance into the pagan temple. Includes the world premiere recording of Edmund Neupert's Resignation orchestrated by Grieg.
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  • Grieg: Olav Trygvason, Landkjenning, Sigurd Jorsalfar & Resi
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    Grieg: Olav Trygvason, Landkjenning, Sigurd Jorsalfar & Resi

    Naxos Nov 2013
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99 $13.99Save 30%
  • GRIEG / GADE: Sacred Choral Works

    GRIEG / GADE: Sacred Choral Works

    Chandos May 2000
    1 disc
    CD
    $21.99
  • Grieg: Songs / Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragner Eriksen
    Naxos

    Grieg: Songs / Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragner Eriksen

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    GRIEG
    Artist
    Erling Ragnar, Bodil, Eriksen, Arnesen
    Released
    Jan 15, 1997
    Though Anne Sofie von Otter’s Gramophone Award-winning disc remains the clear choice for a single record devoted to Grieg’s songs, this new one runs it close. Bodil Arnesen is a young lyric soprano with just the right freshness for these open-air songs (as so many of them are) of spring and hope. She is entirely firm, has a healthy glow on the upper notes, shows a nice feeling for nuance, and knows how to make the voice smile. Some limitation is felt in the few darker songs, such as the second of Op. 48, “Dareinst, Gedanke mein”, which von Otter takes at a slower pace, introducing an unearthly pallor into the tone, and providing a more weighty reminder of the link back to Schubert’s Wanderers Nachtlied and forward to Strauss’s Ruhe, meine Seele. Then in the next song, “Lauf der Welt”, von Otter has a style at once bolder and more confiding: she communicates as though to a larger audience and so on a bigger scale, enlarging what one might call the vocal gestures of intimacy to match. Yet for home-listening, especially if you are playing at a good volume, I’m not sure that such large expressiveness isn’t just a little overwhelming: certainly the return, from that, to the soprano’s relatively miniaturist style is no hardship.

    The choice of songs is fine, so too the programming, in which the sequence (not chronological) is sensible and satisfying. For a proper conspectus of Grieg’s songs it is necessary to have the Haugtussa cycle, which von Otter includes and Arnesen does not; there is compensation, however, in the charming Bjornson settings (Op. 21), the two songs of Solveig, and others such as The Princess and “With a primrose” which are among the best of all. Erling Eriksen accompanies sympathetically, the balance of voice and piano is well judged and the booklet provides useful and attractive companionship.

    -- Gramophone [5/1997]
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  • Grieg: Songs / Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragner Eriksen

    Grieg: Songs / Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragner Eriksen

    Naxos Jan 1997
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
  • Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Excerpts) / Peer Gynt (Excerpts)

    Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Excerpts) / Peer Gynt (Excerpts)

    BIS May 2007
    1 disc
    CD
    $21.99
  • SCHUMANN & GRIEG: PIANO CONCERTOS
    WARNER CLASSICS

    SCHUMANN & GRIEG: PIANO CONCERTOS

    CD · 1 disc

    $17.28
    Artist
    LEONSKAJA, ELISABETH
    Released
    Jul 05, 2024
    Being someone who is rather awful at dancing, the only way I can explore the medium of dance is through music making! This programme idea came about from two contrasting elements: my love of Rameau's Gavotte & Doubles and Ravel's La Valse.... Seeing as dance is often collaborative I am thrilled to have been joined by the wonderful pianist Alexandre Tharaud in some eclectic, lesser known works by Reynaldo Hahn. I am thrilled to release this project!" -Martin James Bartlett Ravel leads the dance with three works in Martin James Bartlett's enticing programme of French piano music. The perspective of La Danse extends back from the 20th century to the 18th century, also encompassing works by Rameau, Couperin, Debussy and - with the participation of guest artist Alexandre Tharaud - Reynaldo Hahn. "This programme idea came about from two contrasting elements," explains Martin James Bartlett, "my love of Rameau's Gavotte et six doubles and Ravel's La Valse. Both these French masterpieces, from different ends of the musical timeline, led to this programme of music inspired by the dance." Welcoming Martin James Bartlett's previous Warner Classics album, Rhapsody, Gramophone wrote: "This showcases an outstanding keyboard talent at the top of his game," while the Sunday Times enthused that, "Throughout, Bartlett's touch is alternately carefree and rigorous. A delight.
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  • SCHUMANN & GRIEG: PIANO CONCERTOS

    SCHUMANN & GRIEG: PIANO CONCERTOS

    WARNER CLASSICS Jul 2024
    1 disc
    CD
    $17.28
  • Grieg: String Quartets / Auryn Quartet

    Grieg: String Quartets / Auryn Quartet

    CPO Jul 2001
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
  • Forgotten Romance - Grieg, Rubinstein / Isserlis, Hough
    RCA

    Forgotten Romance - Grieg, Rubinstein / Isserlis, Hough

    CD · 1 disc

    $17.99
    Composer
    LISZT, FRANZ
    Artist
    Stephen, Steven, Hough, Isserlis
    Released
    Mar 28, 2008
    An inspired duo creates one of the most enjoyable cello discs in years.

    With Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough an inspired duo, natural recording artists both, this is one of the most enjoyable new cello discs I have heard in years. I should be sorry if the sentimental title, “Forgotten Romance”, taken from the shortest and least ambitious piece in the collection, deterred any serious listener from investigating it. The logic of the grouping is that the five cello pieces of Liszt, all of them brief and all of them adapted from earlier works, are used to frame the high romantic cello sonatas, by Grieg and Rubinstein, that are in danger of neglect. As Isserlis suggests in his engagingly argued note, “The unabashed emotionalism, the thrilling climaxes and memorable melodies of all such works are all too easily sneered at nowadays, and concert programmes are thus deprived of a host of 19th-century treasures.”

    His advocacy is well founded, for in these exhilarating performances he and Hough challenge each other in spontaneously imaginative interplay to bring out all the qualities he mentions. The point is that with performances like these, as sharply disciplined as they are passionate, all the emotion is very well founded, with sentimentality firmly kept at bay. Romance oubliee, adapted from an early song, was originally written for viola, with an added arpeggio passage at the end reflecting Berlioz’s Harold in Italy, which Liszt had arranged for viola and piano. As Paul Coletti and Leslie Howard demonstrate on their Hyperion recording (11/93), Romance oubliee is rather better suited to that instrument, but makes a pleasant ‘song without words’ here to introduce the magnificent Grieg Sonata. Written when Grieg was considering composing a second piano concerto, its material and manner very much reflect the A minor Concerto, with Grieg at his most richly distinctive. Compared with, say, Truls Mork and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Isserlis and Hough are lighter and more imaginative, never running the risk of sounding sentimental, choosing speeds that flow easily and naturally. Paradoxically that makes the result more moving than any underlining of expression.

    One could say the same about all these performances. The two Elegies – with Isserlis most persuasive in the improvisation-like passages – lead to the Rubinstein First Sonata. It has the lyrical directness and honest four-square construction which make the Mendelssohn cello sonatas so attractive. After a strongly characterized first movement Isserlis and Hough adopt a genuine flowing Allegretto for the siciliano rhythms of the central movement, made charmingly fresh, and the exuberant finale finds Hough at his most brilliant in the shimmering piano writing. The disc is rounded off by two Liszt pieces slightly more substantial than the others – Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth (“The Cell in Nonnenwerth”) – a late adaptation of an early song, spare in texture, and Liszt’s tribute to Wagner after his death, La lugubre gondola, one of many different adaptations. It would be a pity if such inspired playing failed to be appreciated, when, as Hough says, all this music so richly deserves to be better known.

    -- Edward Greenfield, Gramophone [4/1996]
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  • Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 3

    Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 3

    Audite Musikproduktion Sep 2013
    1 disc
    SACD
    $21.99
  • Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 2

    Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 2

    Audite Musikproduktion Aug 2011
    1 disc
    SACD
    $21.99
    Haenssler Classic

    Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Piano Concerto, Etc / Marriner, Ohlsson

    CD · 2 discs

    $12.99
    Composer
    GRIEG, EDVARD
    Artist
    Ohlsson, Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields, Marriner
    Released
    Apr 24, 2012
    Garrick Ohlsson scales the heights in this 1996 recording of the Grieg concerto, his prodigious technique more than a match for the demands of the solo part. Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields provide a suitably grand accompaniment, and it’s all brought home on a warm, spacious recording with impressive weight and presence. The main coupling, an exuberant account of the Symphonic Dances, makes an attractive companion piece to the concerto. – Ted Libbey, author of The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection.
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  • Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Piano Concerto, Etc / Marriner, Ohlsson

    Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Piano Concerto, Etc / Marriner, Ohlsson

    Haenssler Classic Apr 2012
    2 discs
    CD
    $12.99
    PENTATONE

    Grieg: Lyric Pieces - Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte / Kozhukhin

    SACD · 1 disc

    $21.99
    Composer
    MENDELSSOHN GRIEG
    Artist
    Denis Kozhukhin
    Released
    Jun 28, 2019


    On his new solo album, Russian star pianist Denis Kozhukhin presents a personal and colourful collection of character pieces taken from Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte and Edvard Grieg’s Lyric Pieces. Combing these miniature gems by two outstanding poets of music, Kozhukhin provides a shining example of how disarmingly touching and penetrating a simple song or a vision of nature captured in sound can be. The programme features classics such as Mendelssohn’s Venetian Gondola Song and Grieg’s Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, as well as less famous but equally enchanting pieces. Kozhukhin lifts out the noble simplicity of these works with his delicate playing. Denis Kozhukhin has established himself as one of the greatest pianists of his generation. He now presents the fifth chapter to his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE, after albums with the piano concertos of Grieg and Tchaikovsky (2016), Brahms Ballades and Fantasies (2017), Ravel and Gershwin piano concertos, as well as Richard Strauss’ Burleske (both 2018).

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    REVIEW:

    Once in a while a piano recording comes along that really plucks at the heart-strings. Denis Kozhukhin's compilation of miniatures by Mendelssohn and Grieg is one such. He brings to the table a perfect balance between spontaneity and control, teamed with infinite variety of touch and timbre. Every phrase is imbued with sensitivity and luminous beauty.

    – Gramophone
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  • Grieg: Lyric Pieces - Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte / Kozhukhin

    Grieg: Lyric Pieces - Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte / Kozhukhin

    PENTATONE Jun 2019
    1 disc
    SACD
    $21.99
    Avie Records

    Chopin, Schumann & Grieg / Segev, Pohjonen

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    CHOPIN GRIEG SCHUMANN
    Artist
    Segev, Pohjonen
    Released
    Jul 20, 2018
    Cellist Inbal Segev’s debut release for Avie features the lush and romantic sonatas by Chopin and Grieg, and the Fantasiestucke by Robert Schumann. She is joined by Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen, a fitting partner for the pianistic Chopin and the virtuosic Grieg. In Schumann’s own transcription of his “Fantasy Pieces,” originally for clarinet, the lyrical quality shines through on Inbal’s 1673 Ruggieri cello. Inbal Segev reaches thousands of people across continents through her influential YouTube video masterclass series Musings with Inbal, teaching core repertoire, cello technique and new works. Her many honors include top prizes at the Pablo Casals, Paulo and Washington International Competitions. She began playing cello in Israel at five and at sixteen was invited by Isaac Stern to continue her studies in the US. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Yale University. “first class… richly inspired… very moving indeed…” (Gramophone) “Her playing is characterized by a strong and warm tone…delivered with impressive fluency and style.” (The Strad) “This young artist is, beyond doubt, a star in the making- her tone golden and unstrained in the high positions, her phrasing that of a born musician.” (Musical Opinion)

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    REVIEW:

    In the late 2010s, cellist Inbal Segev teamed with the young pianist Juho Pohjonen in recitals, and the pair has a good, confident rapport.

    In the first movement of Chopin's Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65, Segev strikes a nice balance between the bel canto melody and the dense construction.

    The virtuosic Grieg sonata is expertly done, and it is likely that this release will satisfy her many fans.

    – All Music Guide (James Manheim)
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  • Chopin, Schumann & Grieg / Segev, Pohjonen

    Chopin, Schumann & Grieg / Segev, Pohjonen

    Avie Records Jul 2018
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99