Since you are interested in Piano Music Vol 1 (Piano Sonata, Four Piano Pieces), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
EDVARD GRIEG / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / FRANZ LISZT
Moiseiwitsch, Vol. 5 (1939-1947) Benno Moiseiwitsch (Piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 14/Sep/2006 ] "Naxos's fifth volume of Benno Moiseiwitsch's (1890-1963) recordings is of considerable interest. The Russian pianist's 1941 recording of the famous Grieg concerto with the Halle Orchestra is played fast and loose, a bit ragged, with the emotional... |
EDVARD GRIEG / JEAN SIBELIUS
Grieg/Sibelius: Romantic Music For Strings Capella Istropolitana, Adrian Leaper (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] "Adrian Leaper secures responsive and sensitive playing" - Penguin Guide |
DISCOVER MUSIC OF THE ROMANTIC ERA
Discover Music of the Romantic Era: combination of illustrative music and a richly filled book David McLeery (Writer) / Various artists and performers [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 15/Jul/2008 ] Amidst a background of wars and revolution, the nineteenth century produced many of the world's best-loved composers. Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Tchaikovsky are just some of the many familiar names whose music was shaped by the events of period. |
EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Piano Music Volume 8 (Lyric Pieces, Books 1-4) Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] "Steen-Nøkleberg is entirely inside this music. He manages to make the familiar pieces sound fresh, and the less familiar... are most imaginatively played." - Gramophone - May 1996 |
GRIEG
Piano Music Vol 10 (Lyric Pieces, Books 8-10, Opp. 65, 68, and 71) Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Nov/2004 ] "Steen-Nøkleberg is entirely inside this music. He manages to make the familiar pieces sound fresh, and the less familiar... are most imaginatively played." - Gramophone |
GRIEG
Piano Music Vol 6 (Norwegian Melodies) Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Nov/2007 ] "Steen-Nøkleberg is entirely inside this music. He manages to make the familiar pieces sound fresh, and the less familiar... are most imaginatively played." - Gramophone - May 1996 |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (with Sibelius-Symphony No 2) Eleanor Roosevelt (narrator) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Koussevitzky / NBC Symphony Orchestra / Toscanini [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] This disc restores to the catalogue, after an absence of more than 50 years,Koussevitzky's second recording of Peter and the Wolf, with Eleanor Roosevelt as narrator.Taped during his last recording sessions on 29th November, 1950, Koussevitzky's... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FRANZ SCHUBERT / EDVARD GRIEG
Beethoven/Schubert/Grieg: Violin Sonatas (recorded in 1928) Fritz Kreisler (violin) Sergey Rachmaninov (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Chamber Music Recordings / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Recorded 1928 |
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. |
GRIEG
Piano Concerto / Symphonic Dances / In Autumn Havard Gimse (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Bjarte Engeset, conductor, [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 7/Jul/2004 ] "Sweep away the glitz that usually surrounds the Grieg concerto, and you have this gorgeous performance from the young Norwegian pianist, Havard Gimse…Delicacy and superb technique” – Yorkshire Post |
GRIEG
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
Grieg: Orchestral Music Vol 5 (complete incidental music to Peer Gynt) Isa Gericke (soprano) Unni Lovlid (soprano) Kirsten Braten Berg (mezzo-soprano) / Malmo Symphony Orchestra / Malmo Chamber Choir / Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "Excellent soloists (especially the Solveig of soprano Ise Katharina Gericke), an enthusiastic chorus, and extremely atmospheric engineering...At Naxos' very reasonable price, this set becomes self-recommending." (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
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: Music for String Orchestra / Lyric Suite Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Nov/2011 ] "there's an edge to their tone that belies unfavourable comparisons with salon music. They also capture the vocal quality underpinning the Two Elegiac Melodies, and the folk music background to movements such as 'Norwegian' from Two Melodies for Stri |