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Engeset; Bjarte
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Reference Recording: Engeset’s Complete Grieg, and Then Some
Choices, choices! Ole Kristian Ruud’s superb Grieg box on BIS […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a…
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Major Discoveries: Geirr Tveitt’s Wedding Suite from Hardanger
The second release in the Naxos Geirr Tveitt survey comprises […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a…
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Major Discoveries: Tveitt Suites on Hardanger Tunes
Geirr Tveitt composed five orchestral sets of Hardanger tunes, each […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a…
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A Fine Album Of Grieg Operatic Scenes & Incidental Music
This CD presents more than an hour’s worth of rarely-heard music. The three main works here were inspired by Edvard Grieg and his librettist Bjørnstjerne…
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Irgens-Jensen: Symphony; Passacaglia/Bournemouth
Ludvig Irgens-Jensen’s Passacaglia of 1928, music of unaffected grandeur and nobility, is one of the monuments of the Scandinavian orchestral repertoire. It receives a powerful…
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Grieg: String Orchestra Works/Engeset
The excellence of Bjarte Engeset’s Grieg recordings speaks for itself. This disc contains all of Grieg’s music for string orchestra, plus the Lyric Suite. As…
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Svendsen: Rhapsodies
Johan Svendsen’s four Norwegian Rhapsodies represent his best orchestral work, probably because they used borrowed tunes. He was not a particularly interesting melodist, or orchestrator,…
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Grieg: Peer Gynt Complete
If you enjoyed Bjarte Engeset’s excellent disc of the Peer Gynt Suites, then you’ll certainly like this version of the complete incidental music as much…
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Grieg: Symphony, etc./Malmö
Here is more fine Grieg from Bjarte Engeset and Naxos. The symphony isn’t terribly interesting or important, but this is a very charming performance featuring…
