Grieg: Complete Music for Piano 4 Hands

Published: 01 June 2023
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During the years leading up to the beginning of the 20th century, Edvard Grieg was the most significant Scandinavian composer. He was educated at the Leipzig Conservatory, where his early influences were Schubert and Schumann. Like all of his fellow countrymen of that generation, he was orientated towards Denmark, the Danish language and Danish culture in general. He spent much time in Copenhagen. Later, in his early 20s, he developed an affinity for Norwegian peasant culture thanks to the influence of the great Norwegian musician Ole Bull. That effected a major change in his musical outlook, and for the rest of his life he immersed himself in Norwegian literature and folk music. It became a major part of his artistic philosophy and placed him firmly in the ranks of the nationalist composers that characterised the second half of the 19th century.

Composer: Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Artists: Roberto Plano, Paola Del Negro piano

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The 4 Norwegian dances Op.35 are arrangements for piano four-hands of old folk tunes that Grieg took from a collection published by the musician and researcher Ludvig Mathias Lindeman. The composition was sketched in Copenhagen in January 1880 and brought to completion in the summer of the following year during a holiday in Lofthus.
Grieg’s Symphony in C minor EG 119 was composed in 1863–64, when Grieg was 20, and the melodies of its second and third movements later came to be known in the present arrangement for piano duet known as 2 Symphonic Pieces Op.14.

Grieg’s name is notably tied to important stage works, among them Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, one of the most performed plays in Norway. Grieg composed a score for the play of some 90 minutes of incidental music, from which he selcted the most beautiful numbers for two orchestral suites which he arranged in versions for piano solo and piano four-hands.
Grieg wrote the 2 Walzer-Capricen Op.37 for piano four hands in 1883, after he and his lyric soprano wife, Nina, had reconciled after an estrangement and were once again happy together, travelling and performing in Germany and Rome.


Tracklist:
Edvard Hagerup Grieg: 4 Norwegian Dances, Op. 35:
00:00:00 I. No. 1 in D Minor
00:05:19 II. No. 2 in A Major
00:07:26 III. No. 3 in G Major
00:10:11 IV. No. 4 in D Major
2 Symphonic Pieces, Op. 14:
00:15:29 I. Adagio cantabile – Più mosso – Tempo I in A-Flat Major
00:21:55 II. Allegro energico in C Minor
Peer Gynt Suite No .1, Op. 46:
00:26:20 I. Morgenstemning [Morning Mood]
00:30:21 II. Åses død [The Death of Åse]
00:34:07 III. Anitras dans [Anitra’s Dance]
00:37:25 IV. I Dovregubbens hall [In the Hall of the Mountain King]
Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55:
00:40:07 I. Bruderovet. Ingrids klage [The Abduction of the Bride. Ingrid’s Lament]
00:43:21 II. Arabisk dans [Arabian Dance]
00:47:57 III. Peer Gynts hjemfart – Stormfull aften på havet [Peer Gynt’s Homecoming – Stormy Evening on the Sea]
00:50:47 IV. Solveigs sang [Solveig’s Song]
00:56:07 V. Dance of the Mountain King’s Daughter
2 Walzer-Capricen, Op. 37:
00:57:52 I. No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor
01:03:08 II. No. 2 in E Minor
2 Nordic Melodies, Op. 63:
01:07:08 I. folketonestil [In Folk Style]. II. Kulokk og Stabbelåten [Cow-call and Peasant Dance]
2 Nordic Melodies, Op. 63:
01:14:53 I. Kulokk
01:17:12 II. Stabbelåten


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