Edvard Grieg & Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt
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Edvard Grieg & Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt

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Composer
GRIEG, EDVARD
Artist
ORCHESTRE DE LA SUISSE ROMANDE
Format
CD
Discs
2
Label
Aeon
Released
Apr 01, 2009
Catalog #
AECD0642
UPC
3760058366424

About

The English translation excellently acted gives this fiery Peer new appeal.

Based on concerts the Suisse Romande Orchestra gave in Geneva and Lausanne, Guillaume Tourniaire's performance of the Benestad/Andersen critical edition of the score (essentially the 26 numbers given at the play's 1876 premiere) first appeared in 2005 (A/05). In my Gramophone Collection piece on Peer Gynt in November of that year I would have hailed it unreservedly as the best complete version of Grieg's theatre music had the dialogue and melodramas not been spoken in French. Now those spoken passages have been rendered into English, in a translation by Stephen Taylor which resonates without either period whimsy or banal updating.

The linking narrations and filleting of the play by Main Perroux have been made with sharp knowledge of the Ibsen drama and of what works in concert and on disc. The national characteristics of the actors intriguingly alter the feel of the piece. While Lambert Wilson and his French colleagues are more distanced, Brechtian and mysterious, the British trio immediately embrace a warmer, more comic naturalism. Alex Jennings's voice grows from rough Ulster into an assumed English RP as Peer travels the world; Derek Jacobi is a cunning mix of spooky and funny as the Boyg, here called the Great Obstacle, and no less effective in 10 other parts; Haydn Gwynne hops with enjoyable confidence across the age and sanity barriers from Peer's mother to his various girl friends.

Tourniaire has as much of an eye on the drama as the exceptional discs of excerpts under Beecham (EMI) and Masur (Philips). He has intuited and delivered a true Grieg style from his orchestra, alert, light, swift but not afraid to punch home the ironies (of the Trolls' various numbers) and the intentionally noisy stage effect climaxes (like the Act 5 shipwreck music). The two big melodramas ("Peer and the Obstacle" and "Night Scene") — perhaps the most compelling reasons for getting to know the complete score — find Grieg at his most progressive and inventive and Tourniaire paces them beautifully. Even his rits and rails in the tricky little vocal numbers of Peer's African sojourn in Act 4 come off to a tee.

With English-speaking listeners now as well catered for as French ones, Aeon should seriously consider a Norwegian version, even retaining Perroux's taut narrative material. The Ole Kristian Ruud/Bergen BIS Norwegian set (A105) is authentically self-recommending but it lacks the special fire and imagination of Tourniaire's.

-- Mike Ashman, Gramophone [3/2007]

Tracklist 51 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 Act I: The Adbuction of the Bride: At the Wedding (Prelude to Act I) 04:50
    Track
    1
    Title
    Act I: The Adbuction of the Bride: At the Wedding (Prelude to Act I)
    Duration
    04:50
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  3. 2 Act I: The Adbuction of the Bride: Peer Gynt, You're a Liar! (Peer Gynt, Ase, Narrator) 01:50
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act I: The Adbuction of the Bride: Peer Gynt, You're a Liar! (Peer Gynt, Ase, Narrator)
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Haydn Gwynne, Derek Jacobi
  4. 3 Act I: The Adbuction of the Bride, Halling: Down there is Haegstad (Peer Gynt) 01:11
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act I: The Adbuction of the Bride, Halling: Down there is Haegstad (Peer Gynt)
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  5. 4 Act I: The Adbuction of the Bride: The Bride? Well, of Course She's Crying a Bit … 00:33
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act I: The Adbuction of the Bride: The Bride? Well, of Course She's Crying a Bit …
    Duration
    00:33
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Derek Jacobi
  6. 5 Act I: The Adbuction of the Bride, Springar: Are You the Boy Who Wanted to Dance? 01:47
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act I: The Adbuction of the Bride, Springar: Are You the Boy Who Wanted to Dance?
    Duration
    01:47
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Haydn Gwynne, Derek Jacobi
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  7. 6 Act I: The Adbuction of the Bride: Well, Boys, the Blacksmith Has Arrived! 00:23
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act I: The Adbuction of the Bride: Well, Boys, the Blacksmith Has Arrived!
    Duration
    00:23
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Haydn Gwynne, Derek Jacobi
  8. 7 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Ingrid's Lament (Prelude to Act II) 04:41
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Ingrid's Lament (Prelude to Act II)
    Duration
    04:41
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  9. 8 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Go Away Ingrid, Leave Me Alone! (Peer Gynt, Narrator) 00:38
    Track
    8
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Go Away Ingrid, Leave Me Alone! (Peer Gynt, Narrator)
    Duration
    00:38
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Derek Jacobi
  10. 9 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Peer Gynt and the Cattle-Girls 03:52
    Track
    9
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Peer Gynt and the Cattle-Girls
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Inger Dam-Jensen, Sophie Koch
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  11. 10 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Montain Heights! (Peer Gynt, Narrator) 00:42
    Track
    10
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Montain Heights! (Peer Gynt, Narrator)
    Duration
    00:42
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Derek Jacobi
  12. 11 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Peer Gynt and the Girl in Green 01:59
    Track
    11
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Peer Gynt and the Girl in Green
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  13. 12 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Is It True? (Peer Gynt, Anitra, Narrator) 01:32
    Track
    12
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Is It True? (Peer Gynt, Anitra, Narrator)
    Duration
    01:32
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Haydn Gwynne, Derek Jacobi
  14. 13 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: You Recognise a Great Man By His Mount! (Peer Gynt) 00:23
    Track
    13
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: You Recognise a Great Man By His Mount! (Peer Gynt)
    Duration
    00:23
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Derek Jacobi
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  15. 14 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: In the Hall of the Mountain King (Chorus) 03:00
    Track
    14
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: In the Hall of the Mountain King (Chorus)
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Le Motet de Geneve, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  16. 15 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Troll People, We Must Keep Calm! (King of the Trolls, Peer Gynt) 02:05
    Track
    15
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Troll People, We Must Keep Calm! (King of the Trolls, Peer Gynt)
    Duration
    02:05
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Derek Jacobi, Alex Jennings
  17. 16 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Danse of the Mountain King's Daughter 01:42
    Track
    16
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Danse of the Mountain King's Daughter
    Duration
    01:42
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  18. 17 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: What Do You Make of It? (Peer Gynt, King of the Trolls) 01:09
    Track
    17
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: What Do You Make of It? (Peer Gynt, King of the Trolls)
    Duration
    01:09
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Derek Jacobi
  19. 18 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Peer Gynt Pursued By the Trolls (Peer Gynt, Chorus) 03:14
    Track
    18
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Peer Gynt Pursued By the Trolls (Peer Gynt, Chorus)
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings
    Ensemble
    Le Motet de Geneve, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  20. 19 Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Peer Gynt and the Obstacle (Peer Gynt, Obstacle) 05:27
    Track
    19
    Title
    Act II: Peer Gynt and the Trolls: Peer Gynt and the Obstacle (Peer Gynt, Obstacle)
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Derek Jacobi
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  21. 20 Act III: The Death of Ase: In a Dense Pine-Forest, Far Away From Men … (Narrator) 00:30
    Track
    20
    Title
    Act III: The Death of Ase: In a Dense Pine-Forest, Far Away From Men … (Narrator)
    Duration
    00:30
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Derek Jacobi
  22. 21 Act III: The Death of Ase: The Death of Ase (Prelude to Act lll) 04:52
    Track
    21
    Title
    Act III: The Death of Ase: The Death of Ase (Prelude to Act lll)
    Duration
    04:52
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  23. 22 Act III: The Death of Ase: One Day, While Peer Is Cutting Wood … (Narrator, Peer Gynt, Ase) 03:01
    Track
    22
    Title
    Act III: The Death of Ase: One Day, While Peer Is Cutting Wood … (Narrator, Peer Gynt, Ase)
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Haydn Gwynne, Derek Jacobi
  24. 23 Act III: The Death of Ase: Giddy Up! Make Haste, My Black Horse! (Peer Gynt, Ase) 05:20
    Track
    23
    Title
    Act III: The Death of Ase: Giddy Up! Make Haste, My Black Horse! (Peer Gynt, Ase)
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Haydn Gwynne
  25. Disc 2
  26. 1 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Morning Mood (Prelude to Act IV) 04:26
    Track
    1
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Morning Mood (Prelude to Act IV)
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  27. 2 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Peer Gynt Has Travelled the World (Narrator, Peer Gynt) 01:11
    Track
    2
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Peer Gynt Has Travelled the World (Narrator, Peer Gynt)
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Derek Jacobi, Alex Jennings
  28. 3 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: The Thief and the Receiver 01:17
    Track
    3
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: The Thief and the Receiver
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Dietrich Henschel
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  29. 4 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: The Desert Is Vaste and Limitless! (Peer Gynt) 01:25
    Track
    4
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: The Desert Is Vaste and Limitless! (Peer Gynt)
    Duration
    01:25
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings
  30. 5 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Arabian Danse (Chorus) 04:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Arabian Danse (Chorus)
    Duration
    04:59
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Le Motet de Geneve, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  31. 6 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: My Prophet and My Master! 00:30
    Track
    6
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: My Prophet and My Master!
    Duration
    00:30
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Derek Jacobi, Haydn Gwynne
  32. 7 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Anitra's Dance 03:38
    Track
    7
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Anitra's Dance
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  33. 8 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Anitra, True Daughter of Eve! (Peer Gynt) 00:41
    Track
    8
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Anitra, True Daughter of Eve! (Peer Gynt)
    Duration
    00:41
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings
  34. 9 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Peer Gynt's Serenade 02:37
    Track
    9
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Peer Gynt's Serenade
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Dietrich Henschel
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  35. 10 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Peer Gynt Has Carried Away the Farouche and Lovely Anitra! (Narrator) 00:10
    Track
    10
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Peer Gynt Has Carried Away the Farouche and Lovely Anitra! (Narrator)
    Duration
    00:10
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Derek Jacobi
  36. 11 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Leave Me Alone or I'll Bite You! (Peer, Anitra) 03:54
    Track
    11
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Leave Me Alone or I'll Bite You! (Peer, Anitra)
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Haydn Gwynne
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  37. 12 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: On the Same Summer's Day, Far Away In the North … (Narrator) 00:25
    Track
    12
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: On the Same Summer's Day, Far Away In the North … (Narrator)
    Duration
    00:25
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Derek Jacobi
  38. 13 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Solveig's Song (Solvieg) 05:42
    Track
    13
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Solveig's Song (Solvieg)
    Duration
    05:42
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Inger Dam-Jensen
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  39. 14 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Peer Gynt Has Taken to Wandering Again (Narrator) 00:10
    Track
    14
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Peer Gynt Has Taken to Wandering Again (Narrator)
    Duration
    00:10
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Derek Jacobi
  40. 15 Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Peer Gynt at the Statue of Memnon 01:57
    Track
    15
    Title
    Act IV: Peer Gynt in Africa: Peer Gynt at the Statue of Memnon
    Duration
    01:57
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  41. 16 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: So Many Years Have Past, so Much Has Happened … (Narrator) 00:49
    Track
    16
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: So Many Years Have Past, so Much Has Happened … (Narrator)
    Duration
    00:49
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Derek Jacobi
  42. 17 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Stormy Evening On the See (Prelude to Act V) 02:18
    Track
    17
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Stormy Evening On the See (Prelude to Act V)
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  43. 18 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Good Evening (Passenger, Peer Gynt) 01:24
    Track
    18
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Good Evening (Passenger, Peer Gynt)
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Derek Jacobi
  44. 19 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Shipwreck 01:46
    Track
    19
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Shipwreck
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  45. 20 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Peer Gynt … Survives (Narrator, Peer Gynt) 01:08
    Track
    20
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Peer Gynt … Survives (Narrator, Peer Gynt)
    Duration
    01:08
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Derek Jacobi, Alex Jennings
  46. 21 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: If I Die One Day … 02:59
    Track
    21
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: If I Die One Day …
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Derek Jacobi
  47. 22 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Solveig Sings In Her Hut 02:19
    Track
    22
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Solveig Sings In Her Hut
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Sophie Koch
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  48. 23 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming, Night Scene: Ashes, Mist and Windswept Dust … 07:37
    Track
    23
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming, Night Scene: Ashes, Mist and Windswept Dust …
    Duration
    07:37
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Derek Jacobi
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  49. 24 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Good Evening Old Man 01:36
    Track
    24
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Good Evening Old Man
    Duration
    01:36
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Derek Jacobi
  50. 25 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Whitsun Hymn (The Faithful) 01:28
    Track
    25
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Whitsun Hymn (The Faithful)
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Le Motet de Geneve, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  51. 26 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming, Whitsun Hymn: I Have Encountered the Faithfull … (Peer Gynt) 02:20
    Track
    26
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming, Whitsun Hymn: I Have Encountered the Faithfull … (Peer Gynt)
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire
  52. 27 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: So, Peer Gynt, Where Is the Register of Your Sins? Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: So, Peer Gynt, Where Is the Register of Your Sins? (Peer Gynt, Button-Moulder) 02:32
    Track
    27
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: So, Peer Gynt, Where Is the Register of Your Sins? Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: So, Peer Gynt, Where Is the Register of Your Sins? (Peer Gynt, Button-Moulder)
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Alex Jennings, Derek Jacobi, Inger Dam-Jensen
  53. 28 Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Solveig's Cradle Song 06:46
    Track
    28
    Title
    Act V: Peer Gynt's Homecoming: Solveig's Cradle Song
    Duration
    06:46
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Inger Dam-Jensen, Sophie Koch
    Ensemble
    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
    Conductor
    Guillaume Tourniaire