IDAGIO | Grieg: Cello Sonata - Grainger: La Scandinavie 7318599921204

Featuring

Andreas Brantelid
Christian Ihle Hadland
Lars Bjørnkjær
Edvard Grieg
Percy Grainger
Carl August Nielsen

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Compositional Technique

For his arrangement of the Allegretto from Violin Sonata No. 3 for cello and piano, Edvard Grieg unusually requested the cello's lowest string be tuned down a semitone.

Critical Reception

Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor created enormous expectations, leading some to view his later career as a disappointment due to a lack of great symphonic works.

Composition History

Edvard Grieg composed his Cello Sonata, Op. 36, for his brother John Grieg, a cellist, during a period when they were particularly close.

Composer Biography

Edvard Grieg, a Norwegian composer, and his brother John Grieg, a cellist, both studied at the famous Leipzig Conservatory of Music.

Instruments

Cellist Andreas Brantelid plays the 'Boni-Hegar' Stradivarius from 1707, which is lent to him by Norwegian art collector Christen Sveaas.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Edvard Grieg's compositional path was marked by the tension between creating genuinely Norwegian music and desiring universal recognition.

Composer Biography

Percy Grainger, an Australian-born pianist and composer, and Edvard Grieg became close friends after meeting in London in 1906, sharing a bond over their experiences with the German conservatory tradition.