Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. V

Featuring

Eivind Aadland
Camilla Tilling
Tom Erik Lie
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Edvard Grieg

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Composer Biography

Grieg's Peer Gynt music was one of his 'happiest musical inspirations,' possibly due to the pressure of composing for a performance at the Christiania Theatre in 1876.

Composition History

Grieg's music for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, a play whose title character is misanthropic and egotistical, seems almost harmless on first hearing.

Compositional Technique

Grieg's 'At the Wedding' from Peer Gynt features a complex structure, blending festive wedding music with Solveig's Song and Norwegian folk dances like Halling and Springar.

Composition History

Grieg assembled his Six Orchestral Songs from earlier songs during a stay in Copenhagen in 1894/95, while recovering from illness.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded across several sessions between October 2012 and November 2014 at the Philharmonie in Cologne, Germany.

Composer Biography

Edvard Grieg, the composer, lived in Kristiania (now Oslo) for ten years, where he founded Norway's first Music Academy and invigorated the city's concert life.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Grieg, despite fighting accusations of 'Norwegianising' his music, often emphasized Nordic moods and sonic landscapes, especially during less creative periods.