SACD, Grieg (composer)
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Grieg: Piano Concerto & Incidental Music to 'Peer Gynt'
RecommendedJean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Ann-Helen Moen (soprano), Victoria Nava (soprano), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Håkon Høgemo (Hardanger Fiddle)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choirs, Edward Gardner
Gardner and the splendid team tackle the whole work with all the verve and drama one could possible want…But perhaps most illuminating is the contribution of Håkon Høgemo on the Hardanger fiddle,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th January 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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What [Grieg] does with folk material is so enchanting that, in this beautiful incarnation with the Bergen players delivering so freshly and responding so well to Gardner’s rhythmic drive in... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Orchestral Choice
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Grieg - Music for String Orchestra RecommendedBergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud
…the engineering… is exemplary in every way, conveying the warm acoustics of Bergen's Grieg Hall with thrilling presence. …playing so enchantingly musical that occasionally one might have thought... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Edvard Grieg Kor sings Grieg
Audun Iversen (baritone)
Edvard Grieg Kor, Paul Robinson, Håkon Matti Skrede
Lang’s Last Spring is a beautiful, distilled and resonant work after Grieg and is nobly sung by the Bergen-based Edvard Grieg Choir here, as is the Norwegian composer’s own choral arrangement... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Grieg: Music for String Orchestra RecommendedRichard Tognetti (artistic director and lead violin), Richard Tognetti (solo violin)
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Tognetti's masterstroke is to have fully assimilated all the characteristics of Grieg's scoring...Transferring this procedure to the Quartet serves to enhance dramatic impact on its music narrative...The... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2020, Also Recommended
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Aadland has the advantage of truly first-class orchestral playing: the Cologne WDR Sinfonieorchester is a fine orchestra indeed, and its account of the Lyric Suite is notable for its excellence... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, Editor's Choice
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A string of orchestral and vocal works inspired by the composer’s love for the landscape of the Scandinavian country — More…
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Camilla Tilling uses her light lyric soprano to trace the echoes and glints of folksong in the melodic shape and harmonic underpinning of many of these songs of the North. Minimal vibrato and... — More…
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