An outstanding edition presenting all 66 of Grieg's Lyrics Pieces. Although technically uncomplicated and reasonably easy to master, these pieces evoke with startling freshness, a wide emotional range often bringing into play the varied moods and idioms of Norwegian folk music. - the publisher
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Romantic. With his "Lyric Pieces", Edvard Grieg was writing a kind of poetic piano diary: between 1867 and 1901 he composed 66 short character pieces, published in ten books. Pieces such as "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen", "March of the dwarfs" or "To the spring" are among Grieg's best-known works. Alongside these fairly virtuosic pieces there are also numerous simpler dances and melodies that can be played at an early stage when learning the piano. Until now only five single books were available fr...
Romantic. The decisive role that Norwegian folk music played for Edvard Grieg can be felt in almost all of his works. For his Norwegian Dancesop. 35, presented here in an Urtext edition, Grieg took old folk tunes from a collection published by the musician and researcher Ludvig Mathias Lindeman and arranged them for piano four hands in 1880. A few years later, Grieg also made the two-hand version presented here. For this Henle Urtext edition, all the extant autographs in the Grieg Archive in Berg...
Grieg's incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's drama "Peer Gynt" contains some of his best-known compositions, such as "Morning mood" and "In the hall of the Mountain King". Grieg later extracted the most beautiful pieces to form two orchestral suites and arranged himself these versions for piano solo and piano four-hands. There was a surprise in store for Henle when preparing their Urtext edition. In the autograph and the first print run, the second suite contained another movement, the "Dance of t...
Contents: 6 Piano Pieces Op.52; Stimmungen Op.73; 3 Posthumous Pieces; 4 Pieces Op.1; Poetic Tone Pictures Op.3; 4 Humoresques Op.; Concerto in A min Op.16 (solo part only, with some orchestral cues); Pictures from Life in the Country Op.19; Ballade in Gmin Op.24; 5 Album Leaves Op.28; Improvisations on Norwegian Folk Tunes Op.29 Folksongs Op.41.
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Romantic. With his 66 Lyric Pieces, Edvard Grieg created a multifacted treasury of piano miniatures and character pieces. Many have become piano classics, none more so than The Wedding at Troldhaugen, which Henle publishers offers here in a separate edition. In this boisterous piece Grieg recalls a glittering celebration at the Villa Troldhaugen on the occasion of his silver wedding, something which attracted hundreds of guests and well-wishers. The fingerings by Norwegian Grieg specialist Einar ...
20th Century. Roman Sketches, Op. 7, is one of 20th-century composer Charles Griffes's most popular works. This piano suite of four short pieces, written between 1915 and 1916, illustrates Griffes's evolving tastes in incorporating modern devices into his compositions. Filled with many memorable, evocative, and pianistically satisfying moments, the pieces require power, agility, and finesse, as well as musical sensitivity. The suite begins with "The White Peacock," a sensuous depiction of the exo...