Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Lyric Pieces; Sigurd Jorsalfar; Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
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CD Details
Composer: Edvard GriegConductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk
Orchestra: Glasgow BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-06-28
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Morning
- Aase's Death
- Anitra's Dance
- In the Hall of the Mountain King
- Ingrid's Lament
- Arabian Dance
- Peer Gynt's Homecoming
- Solveig's Song
- No. 4. Evening in the Mountains
- No. 5. Cradle Song
- Introduction - In the King's Hall
- Intermezzo - Borghild's Dream
- Homage March
Music reviews of Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Lyric Pieces; Sigurd Jorsalfar; Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Music Review: Magnificent
Rating: 5 Stars
Jerzy Maksymiuk is one of my favorite conductors. I particularly love his live recording of Rachmaninoff's The Isle of the Dead for BBC Music Magazine. This Grieg CD is outstanding. The Peer Gynt Suites are especially fine, with beautiful solo work and excellent ensemble. It is a rare pleasure to hear an orchestra associated with Hyperion on a budget priced disc. The BBC Scottish Symphony is one of the world's more underrated orchestras, a group that plays with delicacy and heart. The other works are excellent, too. I first heard the three pieces from Sigurd Jorsalfar on a Vox recording by Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony. That was a lovely version. Maksymiuk's version takes different tempos, but is very effective in its own right. The sound engineering is excellent, too, with just a touch of fuzziness in the tuttis. You may prefer to hear a version of Peer Gynt that includes music from outside the Suites, such as Oivin Fjeldstad's, but for what is on this CD you really can't do much better.
Description of Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Lyric Pieces; Sigurd Jorsalfar; Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
This is a very fine, well-recorded collection of essential Grieg at a rock-bottom price. The Peer Gynt music is quite simply the finest "incidental" score ever written. Had Grieg been a modern composer, this would have been a film soundtrack, and it would have sold something like a billion copies by now. Grieg was always most comfortable working in short, lyrical forms; this music has retained its springlike freshness for over 120 years and shows no sign of going stale anytime soon. Here's a piece of trivia for you: the famous "Morning" scene from Peer Gynt, which everyone associates with some primal Scandinavian dawn, actually takes place in the Sahara desert! David HurwitzGrieg, Edvard CDs
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