Grieg: Complete Music for Piano 4-Hands; Peer Gynt Suites / Plano, Del Negro

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
May 26, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Edvard Hagerup Grieg
    • PERFORMER
      Roberto Plano, Paola Del Negro
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 26, 2023
    • UPC
      5028421962849
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96284
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro marcato

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    2. II. Allegretto tranquillo e grazioso

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    3. III. Allegro moderato alla marcia

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    4. IV. Allegro molto

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    5. I. Adagio cantabile

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    6. II. Allegro energico

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    7. I. Morning Mood

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    8. II. The Death of Aase

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    9. III. Anitra's Dance

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    10. IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    11. I. Ingrid's Lament

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    12. II. Arabian Dance

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    13. III. Peer Gynt's Homecoming

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    14. IV. Solveig's Song

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    15. V. Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    16. I. Tempo di valse moderato

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    17. II. Tempo di valse

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    18. No. 1. In folk style

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    19. No. 2. Cow-Call

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano

    20. No. 2. Peasant Dance

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Paola Del Negro, Roberto Plano


During the years leading up to the beginning of the 20th century, Edvard Grieg was the most significant Scandinavian composer. His 4 Norwegian dances Op. 35 are arrangements for piano four-hands of old folk tunes. The Symphony in C minor was composed in 1863–64. The melodies of its second and third movements later came to be known in the present arrangement for piano duet known as 2 Symphonic Pieces Op. 14. Grieg composed a score for Peer Gynt of some 90 minutes of incidental music, from which he selected the most beautiful numbers for two orchestral suites which he arranged in versions for piano solo and piano four-hands.

Grieg wrote the 2 Walzer-Capricen Op.37 for piano four hands in 1883. The 2 Nordic Melodies, Op. 63 were originally written for string orchestra in 1895. The work is dedicated to the Norwegian and Swedish ambassador to Paris Frederik Due. Due sent Grieg some compositions for violin and piano, and one of his melodies appears in the first piece: ‘In Folk Style’. The second piece, comprising the ‘Cow-Call’ and ‘Peasant Dance’, is a reworking of two pieces (Nos. 18 and 22) from Grieg’s Op. 17 (25 Norwegian Folk Ballads and Dances).

REVIEW:

Grieg had a mastery of the two-piano idiom that is well represented here by Plano and Del Negro. I am very pleased to have this excellent release in my library. It has great piano sound and some of my favorites along with a few rare pieces.

-- American Record Guide