Backer Grøndahl: Piano Music / Smiseth

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Label
Grand Piano
Release Date
March 4, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Agathe Backer Grondahl
    • PERFORMER
      Sara Aimee Smiseth
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 04, 2022
    • UPC
      747313990221
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GP902
    • LABEL
      Grand Piano
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Suite, Op. 20: I. Prélude

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    2. 3 Morceaux, Op. 15: No. 1. Sérénade in F Major

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    3. Études de concert, Op. 57: No. 1. Allegretto

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    4. 11 Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30: No. 1. Brudeslaat (Lom?)

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    5. 6 Idylles, Op. 24: No. 1. Allegretto leggiero

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    6. No. 9. Siklebækken (Møllargutten)

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    7. No. 10. Kivlemöyerne (Møllargutten)

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    8. No. 11. Fanitullen (Møllargutten)

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    9. 6 Idylles, Op. 24: No. 5. Allegretto tranquillo

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    10. 6 Fantasistykker, Op. 66, "Barnlige Billeder" (Children Pictures): No. 1. Ride, ride Ranke

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    11. 8 Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 33: No. 3. Laat i Fjellet

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    12. 3 Ungarske studier (3 Hungarian Studies), Op. 38: No. 2. Intermezzo

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    13. 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 39: No. 1. Souvenir

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    14. 8 Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 33: No. 8. Bruralaat (Valdres)

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    15. 4 Skizzer (Sketches), Op. 19: No. 1. Allegretto leggiero

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    16. 8 Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 33: No. 1. Halling

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    17. 12 Smaa fantasistykker, Op. 55: No. 4. Et Farvel

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    18. 8 Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 33: No. 6. Springdans (Vinje)

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    19. 11 Norske folkeviser og folkedanse, Op. 30: No. 5. Springdans

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    20. Suite, Op. 20: II. Nocturne

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    21. Huldreslaat (Dance of the Huldra)

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    22. 12 Smaa fantasistykker, Op. 55: No. 9. Romance

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    23. I blaafjellet (In the Blue Mountains), Op. 44: II. I Trollhallen

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth

    24. 6 Concert Etudes, Op. 11: No. 4 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

      Performer: Sara Aimée Smiseth


Note: This album is also available in the 10-CD box set, Three Centuries of Female Composers

Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as one of the 19th century’s greatest virtuoso pianists, Agathe Backer Grøndahl was also a pioneer among women composers, juggling marriage, motherhood and an extensive career. She was taught by Liszt in Weimar, and as one of Norway’s most respected composer-pianists, created a large body of work that displays colourful stylistic variety and poetic breadth. The beautiful Sérénade from Trois Morceaux, Op. 15 may well be Backer Grøndahl’s most popular piano composition, but her concert études are virtuoso masterpieces – the folk-tune arrangements drawn from her Op. 30 and Op. 33 sets illustrate her perceptive absorption of her country’s folk music. The remarkable fairy-tale suite I blaafjellet, Op. 44 is possibly the first impressionist piece by a Norwegian composer.