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Grieg: Music For Strings / Barratt-due, Oslo Camerata
Naxos

Grieg: Music For Strings / Barratt-due, Oslo Camerata

$19.99

Details

Composer
GRIEG
Artist
Oslo Camerata Barratt Due
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Jun 20, 2006
Catalog #
8557890
UPC
747313289028

About

The playing of the Oslo Camerata here is uniformly excellent: vibrant, rhythmically taut, and full of life, though the Holberg Suite really comes into its own when played by a full symphonic string section, as opposed to a smaller group. Stephan Barratt-Due secures swifter tempos than we usually hear from larger ensembles, but at some sacrifice of the music's sheer charm (particularly in the concluding Rigaudon). Barratt-Due also increases the (limited) opportunities for contrast in the primarily slow and quiet remainder of the program by separating the Two Elegiac Melodies Op. 34--a smart move--but he curiously omits the first of the Two Lyric Pieces Op. 68 in favor of Ase's Death from Peer Gynt. Since the disc only plays for a bit more than 51 minutes, there was no earthly reason to leave anything out.

So if you want Grieg's complete music for string orchestra (and I assume everyone has the Peer Gynt music anyway), leaving aside performance issues and the question of price, the reference recording from Bergen on BIS remains the way to go. The fact that it's also an SACD may or may not count as an additional point in its favor. And speaking of missing items, the Naxos booklet includes only half of the notes as well, a printing error I assume will be corrected in due course! Still, if the program suits your fancy, these are recommendable performances, well engineered to boot.

--David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 I. Prelude: Allegro vivace 02:35
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Prelude: Allegro vivace
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  2. 2 II. Sarabande: Andante 03:24
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Sarabande: Andante
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  3. 3 III. Gavotte: Allegretto - Musette: Poco più mosso 03:15
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Gavotte: Allegretto - Musette: Poco più mosso
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  4. 4 IV. Air: Andante religioso 05:28
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Air: Andante religioso
    Duration
    05:28
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  5. 5 V. Rigaudon: Allegro con brio - Poco meno mosso 03:53
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Rigaudon: Allegro con brio - Poco meno mosso
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  6. 6 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34: No. 2. Varen (Last Spring) 04:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34: No. 2. Varen (Last Spring)
    Duration
    04:21
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  7. 7 No. 1. Norsk (Norwegian) 03:42
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 1. Norsk (Norwegian)
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  8. 8 No. 2. De forste Mode (The First Meeting) 03:43
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2. De forste Mode (The First Meeting)
    Duration
    03:43
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  9. 9 2 Lyric Pieces, Op. 68: No. 2. Badnlat (At the Cradle) 03:07
    Track
    9
    Title
    2 Lyric Pieces, Op. 68: No. 2. Badnlat (At the Cradle)
    Duration
    03:07
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  10. 10 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34: No. 1. Hjertesar (The Wounded Heart) 03:18
    Track
    10
    Title
    2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34: No. 1. Hjertesar (The Wounded Heart)
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  11. 11 No. 1. Folketonestil (In Folk Stye) 06:51
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 1. Folketonestil (In Folk Stye)
    Duration
    06:51
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  12. 12 No. 2a. Kulok (Cow Call) 01:56
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 2a. Kulok (Cow Call)
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  13. 13 No. 2b. Stabbelaten (Peasant Dance) 02:04
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 2b. Stabbelaten (Peasant Dance)
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due
  14. 14 Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46: II. Ases dod (The Death of Ase) 04:20
    Track
    14
    Title
    Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46: II. Ases dod (The Death of Ase)
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Ensemble
    Oslo Camerata
    Conductor
    Stephan Barratt-Due