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Piano Music Vol 1 (Piano Sonata, Four Piano Pieces) Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] "The playing is full of imagination, character and sensitivity and the recordings... are very natural too. I would recommend them strongly even had they been at full price." (Gramophone) |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Orchestral Music Vol 1 (Incls 'Peer Gynt Suites No. 1 & No. 2) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Jerzy Maksymiuk, Richard Studt [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] Edvard Grieg, the greatest of Norwegian composers, was descended on his mother's side from a Norwegian provincial governor who had adopted the name of Hagerup from his adoptive father, the Bishop of Trondheim. |
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Orchestral Music, Vol. 4: Peer Gynt Suites / Orchestral Songs Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano) Palle Knudsen (baritone) / Malmo Symphony Orchestra / Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] Grieg's incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt is greatly loved by many and is generally considered to be one of the foremost expressions of 'Norwegian national identity'. Comprising the 'best' and most popular numbers, Suite No. 1 was an... |
EDVARD GRIEG
The Very Best of Grieg Jeno Jando (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Jerzy Maksymiuk (Conductor), Capella Istropolitana / Adrian Leaper (Conductor) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 9/May/2006 ] Edvard Grieg is the most important Norwegian composer of the later 19th century, a period of growing national consciousness. As a child, he was encouraged by the violinist Ole Bull, a friend of his parents, and studied at the Leipzig Conservatory at... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / SIBELIUS / BRAHMS / WOLF / RACHMANINOV / GRIEG / TOSTI
Jussi Bjorling: Collection Vol. 5: Lieder and Songs (1939-1952) Jussi Bjorling, tenor, with Harry Ebert, piano / Frederick Schauwecker, piano [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] Ulrich Leyendecker was born in Wuppertal in 1946. From 1962 to 1965 he studied composition with Ingo Schmitt, then until 1970 with Rudolf Petzold at the Cologne Musikhochschule, where he also was a piano pupil of Günter Ludwig. |
GRIEG / BEETHOVEN / WAGNER / WEBER
Flagstad: Songs and Arias (Rec 1937) Kirsten Flagstad / Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] "Kirsten Flagstad must be ranked as one of the greatest dramatic sopranos ever. No one in her wake – apart from Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson – has come anywhere near her in majesty, power and general excellence. (This is) Arguably the most... |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3-Symphony in C minor / Old Norwegian Romance with Variations Malmo Symphony Orchestra / Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2007 ] This is a remarkably assured work filled with positive, youthful energy, and many fresh musical ideas. |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Music for String Orchestra Oslo Camerata / Stephan Barratt-Due (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] "Superbly performed string scores by the Oslo Camerata." (MusicWeb August 2006) |