Wonderland - Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto, Lyric Pieces
3/28/2023, 17 Tracks, 1:09:43
Featuring
Alice Sara Ott
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Edvard Grieg
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Recording & Production
This album features a live recording of Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, in Munich's Herkulessaal.
Composer Biography
Grieg made a number of changes to his Piano Concerto over several decades, with its definitive form being established in 1907.
Performer Biography
Alice Sara Ott, the pianist, met Esa-Pekka Salonen, the conductor, at the Salzburg Festival in 2011, leading to this collaboration.
Composition History
Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor was sight-read by Franz Liszt, a renowned composer and pianist, in Rome in 1870, who praised it as a stroke of genius.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Grieg's Lyric Pieces reveal an 'introvert Grieg' who avoids flamboyance, preferring music to fade away rather than build to noisy climaxes, sometimes using only two musical ideas.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Grieg created a fantasy world in his Lyric Pieces, naming the hill where his house stood 'Troldhaugen' (Troll Hill) and imagining his local forest populated by trolls and elves.
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